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The libs in their gloating keep bringing up the "Terri Intervention" to try to show most Americans wanted to allow Mikey to kill her with no interference. Here is one example:

...Libertarians feel betrayed by big spenders, incompetent interventionists and moralizing busybodies. In the Schiavo case, in which 70 percent of voters thought Washington should have butted out, Republicans drove a wedge through their own ranks.

Out of the Gloom, A Silver Lining Bush must now admit that America is not Dittohead Nation.

And this is from Jonathan Alter or his other ego in Newsweak.

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Did I say "Terri Schiavo Intervention" would become a new buzzword? Yes, I did. But here is a modification appearing. It is also now interventionism.

A piece in the Harvard Crimson would instruct us on how "real" conservatives think and how we should all change.

3. Don’t succumb to a feud between libertarians who blame the midterm losses on social conservatives and social conservatives who feel overlooked and taken for granted. The episodes of blatant pandering to either side—e.g. Halliburton favoritism and Terri Schiavo interventionism—that were rightly condemned by liberals as well as by many conservatives were driven as much or more by a cynical leadership trying to buy support for upcoming elections as by the intended beneficiaries themselves. The Republican Party’s coalition of libertarians, social conservatives, and national defense voters is a winning one, and we will only suffer if we abandon it.

Looks to me like we are expected to set aside the atrocity of Terri's killing as it activated the greater wrong of the government stepping in to prevent the murder.

A GOP Recovery Plan

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>> The libs in their gloating...

... are putting themselves on record. There may be a break in the case some day. For instance, what if George Felos, or Deathknell, or George Greer decided to tell all, in order to put their consciences at rest? What if Jodi's marriage came apart and she started talking? What if, God forbid, Michael should revert to form and beat her too? What if Michael himself confessed?

Finding that you, a supposed intellectual and pundit, got suckered by the likes of Michael Schiavo will not improve your intellectual reputation, Mr. Alter. You should have listened to your conscience and not to dishonest polls.

Per my earlier comments about Alter -- I didn't have to wait long. (And don't you love the way the press call them "killings," not murders, and stress that O.J. was "acquitted" -- as if that made him innocent of two murders?)

O.J. Simpson talks about the murders

Yoohoo, Jonathan Alter. Michael Schiavo could be next. He's been lying longer than O.J. He could break any day. You and all the pointy-heads who bought into his cheap hustle are the ones whose reputation will be tarred. Think John Henry Abbott, championed by Norman Mailer, a wife-stabber for whom Susan Sarandon named one of her kids; or murderer Edgar Smith, championed by Bill Buckley, of all people; or Leonard Bernstein throwing cocktail parties for the Black Panthers; or orchestrated leftist mewling on behalf of such convicted murderers as Mumia Abu Jamal and Tookie Williams.

It all comes out, Mr. Alter, it all comes out.