(Fred) Thompson: No Opinion on Schiavo Case

AP/GOOGLE ^ | 13 SEPTEMBER 2007 | BRENDAN FARRINGTON

[SolidWood]

Totally misleading headline.

[mnehring]

You are right, misleading headline....

I kind of like what they said on SouthPark..

We were wrong for the right reasons and they were right for the wrong reasons..

(not saying we were wrong, just an interesting quote about the situation..)

[dead]

Instead, he said the federal government should be providing block grants as long as states set up objective testing programs.

Or the federal government should tax people far far less, so they don't have any pork to dole out.

Then, with their new found money, local voters can let their local politicians fund and evaluate any public school system they decide to build in their community with their own money.

If I were running for president, I'd vote for me.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Well, I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion around here, but as a Federalist myself, I don't think that the federal government had any business getting involved in the Schiavo case. It was strictly a state and local matter, and should have been handled as such.

(Flame Suit On)

[JRochelle]

I’d vote for you too, just because your tagline makes me laugh.

[Nathan Zachary]

Absolutely.
(fireproof)

[vetsvette]

“If I were running for president, I’d vote for me.”

I’d vote for you too.

I’d run myself, but I’m too busy being retired.

[AuntB]

Thompson said. "That's going back in history. I don't remember the details of it."

That's exactly the way he justified his bad immigration votes to Laura Ingraham the other day.

[L98Fiero]

“I don’t think that the federal government had any business getting involved in the Schiavo case.”

Agreed. A sad case, but not one for the feds.

[NetLiberty]

Hey Fred:

For those of us who DO remember the details, and who felt that the “authorities” allowed an innocent woman to be killed, your answer seems pretty evasive and unsatisfying.

The Schiavo matter is kind of a litmus test for a lot of us around here, and if you can’t pick a side in this one, you’re only starting to confirm my suspicions that you’re not really a conservative, just trying to play one on TV.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Totally misleading headline.

That's the very headline in the news. I didn't touch it other than add Fred's name to it in parenthesis.

[counterpunch]

The fact that the Florida courts were wrong (as usual) does not make you any less correct. It is unfortunate that the court gave power over Terri Schiavo’s life to someone with a clear conflict of interest. Michael Schiavo was not an honest broker. That, and that alone is what made it wrong as a matter of law. However, the Federal government had no place to get involved.

[Augustinian monk]

“I don’t remember the details of it.”

Good grief. It was only discussed on cable news channels 24/7 for three months straight. A news junkie he aint.

[floozy22]

Well, I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion around here, but as a Federalist myself, I don't think that the federal government had any business getting involved in the Schiavo case. It was strictly a state and local matter, and should have been handled as such.

Generally a sound position: to have the government involved in as little as possible. But to me, when it comes to life and death issues, especially potentially saving lives, the government has an obligation to protect citizens, when state and local authorities cannot or will not. Same argument with abortion. The right to life is the primary right with which we are endowed. Without it, we can enjoy no other rights. If the federal government can intervene to save a life - born or unborn - it has a moral duty to do so. And it has my blessing. Saving a human life should never be construed as anything but positive. If you make a "mistake" in saving a life, what's the harm? If you don't intervene and death occurs, that is irreversible. (Not including death penalty issues here).

[RGSpincich]

"Local matters generally speaking should be left to the locals. I think Congress has got an awful lot to keep up with."

Fred feels the same way you do.

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Thanks to the support of the two of you, I just moved ahead of Dennis Kucinich in the polls!

[BJClinton]

Thompson: No Opinion on Schiavo Case

Not a bad headline.

Now if they could work in Paul on 9/11, Giuliani on anything and some crime committed by a person with a Hispanic surname the title alone would hijack the thread.

[RockinRight]

Very true.

But how much do we REALLY know about that case?

Every person involved gave a different story...from her being 100% a vegetable, to being damn near conscious...and everyone with a story had an agenda.

The fact is, we really will never know what really happened there and what condition Terri’s brain was actually in.

The Federal government has no business in such a case for that very reason.

On one hand you can argue that as long as someone can be kept alive we should do so.

OTOH...how do we know that God hadn’t planned to take her back in 1990 and we were just prolonging what He wanted?

It’s not as simple a situation as some here would like to believe, it never is, and I hope to never have to make such a decision for another person. Of course that illustrates the importance of a living will.

[TheThirdRuffian]

The RINOs are desperately trying to sew disinformation about Fred Thompson, I see.

(not you, the article)