[Brices Crossroads]

I think you are faulting Fred because he did not want to respond to such a complicated case on the fly. He does not give snap answers, which is why he will make such a great President. His answer, that the family should decide and if they cannot decide, the state courts should decide, is the correct approach in 99.99% of the cases, and it yields the correct answer in the vast, vast majority of the cases. The fact that the system broke down in one case is no reason to scrap the system. To base your vote on a single tragic incident like this that no one could prevent, including Jeb Bush, is a little shortsighted IMHO.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I will not base my vote on the Schiavo outcome, but on the candidate's position on it.
My point, again, is that something caused a decline in Fred's ratings and I think I'm not the only one who was dismayed by his remarks on Schiavo.
And he didn't say it was complicated, he said: “I can’t pass judgment on it. I know that good people were doing what they thought was best,” Thompson said. “That’s going back in history. I don’t remember the details of it.” (Italics mine.)