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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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Some more "if-onlys":

If we could only hold still so we can be redefined by "conservatives" who know better...

After all, our noticing that Adult Stem Cells, which really help are different than Embryonic Stem Cells which do no good, just cause tumors, is a view "unscientific" to certain elements who say the real truth lies in the vague blending of these opposites into one lump.

And we know global warming or cooling or whatever is a given, beyond dispute, beyond evidence or mere data.

By pursuing rhetoric and policies that targeted the religious right, Bush and Rove turned off many others, certainly including the well-educated, who reacted to their anti-science opposition to stem-cell research and global warming. The turning point, I believe, was a more emotional issue, that of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who brought Bush and his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, to the barricades in 2005 to back legislation keeping her on life-support over the protests of her harassed husband. Autopsies showed the woman's brain was in a "vegetative state," and the cynical appeal to religious conservatives turned off huge numbers of voters. Polling at the time showed most Americans, of both parties, rejected the Bushes' campaign to "save" Schiavo, and were disgusted at the raw partisan appeal in a tragic case.

Now if we could just swallow some old bad tasting mantras...

The Republicans need more than a (right) wing and a prayer

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The Crimson is, after all, a college paper. They were just little kiddies a few years ago when Bill Clinton and cronies were heaping favor upon the very same Halliburton. Not to mention other cabinet-level Clintonians opening the doors to our nuclear laboratories, selling the Chinese rocket guidance systems so that their ICBMs can go straight to Los Angeles, giving nuclear reactors and technology to North Korea (if Kim Jong-il promised, cross his heart and hope to die, not to build nuclear bombs), attacking a church in Texas with poison gas and flame throwers, killing almost everyone inside, and putting themselves and everything in the White House for sale for $50,000 and up.