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"The hysteria shown by some religious conservatives over this issue and their willingness to call in Big Brother as "

It was Michael Schiavo who began the court proceedings in Terri's case. Family disputes have been resolved in court since the inception of our nation. It is nothing new and has nothing whatsoever to do with the rise of big government.

Furthermore, Liberals have been using the courts to push through their agenda for several generations at least beginning with the welfare state and moving along to issues such as abortion, homosexual marriage and euthanasia. The very Liberal Euthanasia lobby was prominent in Terri's case and just as in Roe vs. Wade and so many other issues, they succeeded in establishing a horrible precedent.

While Terri's case garnered much publicity, very few Americans were all that concerned about it and it has nothing to do with Giuliani's popularity mostly among Republicans. It is concern for the WOT among Republicans, which has inspired Giuliani's support, which I predict will wane when more people learn his stand on the issues, and the popularity of the candidate I am supporting, Mitt Romney, will grow.

Maybe some of the people who accuse us of "hysteria" can answer this:

If you were an invalid and your spouse decided to abandon you, move in with another person and have children with them and began using YOUR money (Michael Schiavo was never awarded a penny) for purposes other than the judge allocated it, would you be of the opinion that your "spouse" was acting in your best interests?

>> Family disputes have been resolved in court since the inception of our nation.

True, but remember, this wasn't a family dispute at first. Michael went to court to ask permission to kill Terri without telling the Schindlers. Unbelievable! He did not tell the Schindlers that he had petitioned a court to kill their daughter. (Eventually, his attorney, Deborah Bushnell wrote the Schindlers to say so, probably for fear of a wrongful death lawsuit or something of the sort.)

For all those who preach to us that this was a private family decision that the government should stay out of -- where were you in 1998 when Michael himself asked the government to intervene? Where were you the next seven years? During all of those years, it was the government that kept Terri's FAMILY from having any say whatsoever in her private medical decisions.

The Big Brother aspect of this case that turned many people off was the congressional and presidential intervention in the middle of the night. I know of two members of my family, brother and sister in law, that voted Republican for the first time in Nov. 2006 because of the the above actions. This may be anecdotal, but if this was repeated through out the country, it is another reason for the poor showing in the last election. IIRC, it was after the Schiavo mess that the approval ratings for Republicans began to slide.