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"The conventional wisdom in the pundit class was that the damage done was all to one side - that the flap revealed the GOP to be in the thrall of religious extremists. I don’t doubt that some such damage was indeed done. But little attention was paid to the fact that the Right vs Left narrative of the Schiavo episode - one willingly stoked by Democrats eager to capitalize on precisely the “Religious Right overreach” angle - painted the Left as the advocates of ‘pulling the plug’ on Terri Schiavo."

This is so on the money. I'd been ruminating on all this for days: the same euthanasia-mad control freaks on the left who have made patron saints of Jack Kevorkian & Michael Schiavo, who come down on the side of death any opportunity they're given to make the choice about pulling the plug on the elderly, the infirm and, yes, even Sarah Palin's 'imperfect' baby now want to seize control of everybody's decisions on health care?

And we're all supposed to just trust these rabid leftwing death-nuts playing God now when it comes to our damn plug?

I hadn't made the connection between party ID the way Dan McLaughlin brilliantly does here and he's soooo right!

Don't look now, but the people who are scared to death about this bill are NOT just republicans & conservatives. (Although if the media wants to continue to delude their leftist masters in government that's the case, let 'em! All the better that they won't know what hits them next election til it happens.)

Maybe moderate dems & independents didn't mind aligning themselves with their the far left about Schiavo & sneering about the Palins' decision about letting their son Trig enjoy his right to be born. Those issues didn't affect them personally. But now the same plug-pulling feticidal obsessives want control over health care, eventually making decisions on whether we all get to live or when we must die?

Looks like the 'culture of death' doesn't seem quite so cool once it hits so close to home, does it?

The Republican party might have suffered a real PR hit & sacrificed some short-term support over Schiavo. But suddenly the Pubbies don't seem like such raving religious nutters now, do they? The people who stood up for what was right, and on the side of life, rather than what was expedient in a very difficult situation (as most end-of-life issues are) now suddenly look a lot less loony & a whole lot more trustworthy to all Americans.

Which goes to show you that a strategy which may seem smart in the short term can come to bite you in the butt big time later. The rabid pro-abortion pro-euthansia party will be learning that lesson next election, we hope.

Great, great piece piece. Thanks so much for posting it!