I am not sure I would even want to know the PG-13 fantasies of the left, not even a cozy night with Dr. Kervorkian or the cuddly side of O.J. but this fantasy rerun hits me in the face regularly. They love to dream of us "social conservatives" or whatever, us who believe in good and God as failed. It would top the hottest dreams of a wild weekend romp with Paris Hilton and Cindy Sheehan.
So to keep this thought like a trophy of a serial killer, they cherish the thought that America loved the killing an innocent like Terri and the concept that anyone might try to save that life is, well, "evil".
I would post even more, but will have another cup of coffee instead. Here is a part of that fantasy:
Republicans have also whipped up a storm of opposition among middle-of-the-road voters on social issues. The religious right's opposition to abortion has always been an electoral liability: only 30% of voters favour overturning Roe v Wade. But in the past few years social conservatives tested people's patience still further over a federal marriage amendment and Terri Schiavo. Fully 72% of Republican voters opposed the Republicans' attempt to use the might of the federal government to keep the severely brain-damaged woman alive. The voters got their revenge in the 2006 mid-term elections—“bloody Tuesday” in the words of Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group. Rick Santorum, once the religious right's most prominent champion in the Senate, barely scraped 41% of the vote in Pennsylvania. Ken Blackwell, social conservatism's most prominent black champion, went down to a humiliating defeat in the race for the Ohio governorship. Social conservatives lost ballot initiatives on everything from abortion to gay marriage.
The American right... Under the weather
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To be stuck in their fevered brains so deeply, Terri's Legacy must be one potent fright!
Yet this President Bush is not a good scapegoat. Rather than betraying the right, he has given it virtually everything it craved, from humongous tax cuts to conservative judges. Many of the worst errors were championed by conservative constituencies. Some of the arrogance in foreign policy stems from the armchair warriors of neoconservatism; the ill-fated attempt to “save” the life of the severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo was driven by the Christian right. Even Mr Bush's apparently oxymoronic trust in “big-government conservatism” is shared in practice by most Republicans in Congress.
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