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GOP can’t win with Schiavo case?

I have a point to ponder, and feel free to weigh in with your own opinion:

Will the Terri Schiavo’s situation hurt the GOP?

There are those who are upset with them for getting involved in the first place, mainly because average Americans have been push-polled with biased polls to think that Terri is dying peacefully…when she’s suffering greatly in her starvation. But this group of Americans are mad at the Republicans (epsecially the Bush brothers) for getting involved to save her.

Then there are those who are upset at the GOP for not standing up to the piss-ant state court, who allowed a liberal judicial activist tell Congress, the governor of Florida, and the President to f### off. These are the party faithful, who are now steaming mad that the GOP just caved to the judiciary (when there are laws and precedents that they could have used) and let Terri die.

In other words, there are two groups of people: those who like Republicans, and those who don’t. And right now, both look like they are mad at the GOP.

I’m playing devil’s advocate here, of course. Any thoughts?

March 29, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Sowell’s "Random Thoughts"

Frequently, Thomas Sowell (black conservative economist, and thus an “Uncle Tom” to the left) has a column called “Random Thoughts.” Like Neal Boortz says, Sowell’s random thoughts are better than most people’s organized thoughts. Here’s the link to the full column, but the more poignant ones are here:

If people who commit sex crimes against children are so dangerous that they have to be registered for life after serving their sentences, why are they let out of prison in the first place?

(snip)

It is fascinating to hear teachers say that having to “teach to the test” reduces their ability to engage in good teaching. What they call “good teaching” is the very reason our students do so badly in international comparisons and why colleges have to have large numbers of remedial courses to teach students what they didn’t learn in school.

One sign of the Democrats’ desperation is that some of them continue to try to tar the Bush administration with innuendoes of racism, even though its Cabinet members have included people of Hispanic, Japanese American, Jewish, and Chinese American ancestry, as well as two consecutive black Secretaries of State.

(snip)

People on the political left not only have their own view of the world, they have a view of the world which they insist on attributing to others, regardless of what those others actually say. A classic example is the “trickle down theory,” which no one has ever advocated, but which the left insists on fighting against.

March 29, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment