Posted on 03/11/2007 7:40:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
TAMPA -- He's campaigning hard for support from Republican social conservatives, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday he disagreed with the government's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.
"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Sort of like cutting off the Ukraine's grain supply was an example of small government.
Remember, these people aren't trying to make any kind of coherent point. They're merely trying to cleverly turn yours against you. As they're instructed to do.
Cardiologists? 10 seconds? Irrelevant.
The courts paid next to no attnetion to her condition (which was brain-injured but otherwise healthy, not in pain, and not terminal) and NO attention to her "self-evident" and "inalienable" rights under the Florida Constitution.
The lack of basic, fundamental legal protection for this woman --- and for other American men, women, and children similarly situated --- is a national disgrace.
And Romney should have kept his ignorant mouth shut.
"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.
Cause they where interfering in state matter...
When Terri's parents objected to having their daughter starved to death and could get no redress from an out of control probate judge, they had every right to exercise their constitutional rights. And the governor and legislature had a right and a duty to act within their powers to address an area that, I believe was not clearly defined.
That being, may someone with power of attorney starve his ward to death?
LOL!
perfectly put!
There is no right to life in the Federal Constitution.....
I did learn that I'm going to have a living will and I'm going to specify that I want to be allowed to die but DO NOT starve me to death.
Rubbish.
Oh Geez. The fifth amendment pertains to Trial and Punishment, criminal proceedings.
LOL.........did he ever HAVE you?
Oh, I get it. You must be pro-abortion as well. :*(
So you don't think the courts are "government." Huh?
The same "government" that decided Rowe v Wade and "takings" of private property and gun restrictions, and prayer in public schools, and Elian Gonzales deportation to Cuba and, and...
Well, I'll burn up your straw man, if you insist.
If Congress did such an unconstitutional thing, they would need to be resisted by every other branch of government, and by every citizen. They would have made themselves lawless.
And that's the point in Terri's case. A local judge issued a literal death warrant, to be carried out by cruel and unusual means. Every individual who had raised their hand and sworn to uphold the constitution had an obligation to resist such an unconstitutional act with all their power and might.
Read up on the damned case and stop embarrassing yourself.
That pretty much wipes him out of contention though.
You are talking to Selective Conservatives...
Interesting relevant article:
Brief Awakening From a Coma (fully conscious for 3 days after six years then relapses)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797899/posts
Brain damage doesn't come and go, she woke up, talked, ate, even gave an interview to the local TV station, after being in a vegetative state for six years.
Her husband, no matter what we think of him, was LEGALLY her next of kin.
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