No, not at all. This case is another example of how the GOP has a terrible track record in getting their message across.
Most people misunderstand the Congressional action. The GOP must improve getting the message across. If they had, the polls most likely wouldn't be 70-30 in favor of the morbid position.
It simply isn't good enough to say that people don't understand the issues. It is incumbent on us to communicate them better. The truth is that 1. people don't understand what Congress did, and 2. there is nothing that suggests they will.
It's not about solving this problem - we lost this one. You can't solve a problem once the game is over and it's an 'X' in the loss column. The lesson is that we need to communicate the issues better.
That would go a long way towards addressing future problems.
'We lost this one'????
Huh?
Your language in terms of a life is distasteful, to be honest.
BTW, 'we' (whoever 'we' are) means 'all of us'. Yes! Everyone bears a duty of shame if Terri Shiavo dies. When a mother is denied duty of care to her daughter, over a husband who has another family - we are all to blame. We allowed these laws. We are ALL to blame.
May God have mercy on us all.
Just because someone mentiones one problem (most people didn't know the facts) does not mean they don't grasp that there are other problems. I know we're bad at getting our message out. Republicans and Christians are both bad at that when it comes to politics. The liberals shout us down every time. We have most of the media against us though, so that makes it harder. The media distorted this soooo bad. Can't blame the conservatives for the propaganda campaign. If more people listened to talk radio and got their news on the iternet and from blogs, we'd be a lot better off.