This year isn't as good for the GOP. Two years of crossing public opinion on issues from Terry Schiavo to prosecution of the war in Iraq has left the GOP vulnerable, Merrill said.
"This is a very tough year to be a Republican," Merrill said.
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Something I note is the attempts to factor in Terri as an act of trivia for those who sought to save her, as if such an act were so unimportant it was beneath consideration.
But in their efforts to trivialize, they aggrandize the Legacy of Terri.
The Republicans in charge have had a chance to push their agenda, with a Republican president and a Republican House and Senate, but there is little to show for it. There was so much time wasted on symbolic issues such as flag burning and visiting Terri Schiavo - while citizens here at home still lack affordable health care, soldiers are dying in Iraq, jobs are shipped overseas, seniors are struggling to make ends meet, stem-cell research funding is thwarted, and women's right to choose is threatened.
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Two years of media lies about the Terri Schiavo story and two years of flagrantly rigged polls. But then, what else can the leftist media cite to shape public opinion? Lies, polls, lies, statistics, lies. Otherwise, people do NOT approve of torturing an innocent, helpless, disabled woman to death. What a surprise that is to the cretinoids of the left, eh?
So it's not a good time to be a Republican? That's small potatoes compared to what Terri and the Schindlers endured.