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Re: Letters (under "Kevorkian Care") in Reader Mail's Sissy Slapped:
As someone who is both handicapped and over sixty, the prospect of Obama Care is positively chilling. I can't help but wonder if I, too, will face the horrible death by torture endured by Terri Schiavo at the end of my life. Even mass murderer Timothy McVeigh had a more merciful death, but then, of course, the law forbids "cruel and unusual punishment." The only "crime" poor Terri was guilty of was that of being an inconvenience to her louse of a two-timing spouse.
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia
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Those who watched "Family Ties" years ago would recognize this as the writing of the conservative views of Alex Keaton played by Michael J. Fox. The character was a "conservative" as many viewed the term, well close in my view, but NKR (Not Quite Right.) As I remember he was a conservative as liberals see us.
It’s been almost 20 years since “Family Ties” went off the air. And Alex P. Keaton’s political idols, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, have each gone off to their deserved places in history. Yet I still get asked a lot — O.K. maybe not a lot but more than twice — whether Alex Keaton would be a Republican today. And, if so, who would be his candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
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Alex Keaton was a true conservative Republican. He was for limited government. He was strongly against government involvement in the personal lives of its citizens. He was competent and capable — the ultimate over-achiever. But, above all Alex Keaton was a firm believer in the power of ideas. He believed in the competitive marketplace of intellectual discourse, where the best ideas win — usually Alex’s. And so it’s difficult to recognize in this current incarnation of the Republican Party, a party whose legacy will include Terri Schiavo and Hurricane Katrina, a place where Alex Keaton might feel the least bit comfortable............
Comedy Stop: What Would Alex Keaton Do?
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