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This is a real poll, instead of the slanted poll the MSM was doing.

"If a disabled person is not terminally ill, not in a coma, and not being kept alive on life support, and they have no written directive, should or should they not be denied food and water," the poll asked.

A whopping 79 percent said the patient should not have food and water taken away while just 9 percent said yes."

Most of the MSM was careful to make sure people do NOT understand the situation and the facts of the case.

The results of this poll are not significant. The MSM succeeded in convincing a majority of the American people that Terri was effectively in a coma. There is no changing that fact. What people think should be done if.... doesn't matter a hoot. The majority still believe that pulling the tube was the right thing to do and the Republicans should not have interfered.

The MSM isn't dead yet. They scored a big one here. While we were spending our energy trying to save Terri, they were spending theirs convincing the world that she was brain dead. As a result, they have Frist and 55 (count 'em) pathetic Republican Senators on the run. They are tasting blood. Watch out.

I know full well that I'm going to be flamed for this, but I learned long ago that I am driven to do what is morally right regardless of the opinions of others concerning my actions.

First, a little about myself: When I made the fundamental ideological choices which led me to choose the Republican party, we still had troops in 'Nam. Nixon was still in office, gasoline cost $0.33 a gallon, and most Americans had never heard the words "Watergate" or "OPEC", and I was one of the vanishingly small number of fundamentalist Christians NOT voting for Democrats. The GOP has changed a lot in thirty years, and not all of that change has been for the better.

Concerning the polls surrounding the Schiavo case: contrary to several thousand posts on this blog alone, the vast majority of liberals never "wanted Mrs. Schiavo dead". The vast majority of AMERICANS, from either side of the aisle, felt overwhelmingly that it was NONE OF THEIR DARNED BUSINESS! And they felt even more strongly that it was singularly NOT THE BUSINESS OF THE US CONGRESS.

All of the earlier polls asked variations on: "Should Congress be involved?" To which, much to the chagrin of the religious zealots who have perverted my beloved party into the Big Government-loving monster it is today, the VAST majority of Americans responded resoundingly "NO!" Whether they personally sided with the husband or the parents was not the issue - NO ONE with any sense wants Congress involved in such a deeply personal issue. And, in MY opinion, anyone who feels otherwise has NO business claiming to belong to the party which has always believed in minimal federal interference in personal affairs. (And now, let the invective begin .....)