I would like to comment on a Daily Kos post. If,as the LAT reported:
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean [actually] said Friday that his party would wield the Terri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but for now needed to stay focused battling President Bush on Social Security.
"We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said of the brain-damaged Floridian who died last month after her feeding tube was removed amid a swarm of political controversy."
Then I can only say that the Democrats (not entirely unexpectedly) are simply no better than the Republicans, like Tom DeLay, who tried to use Terri Schiavo. Schiavo was a tragic victim of circumstances and should be left to rest respectfully in peace.
By the same token, anyone like Terry Schmidt, spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, who says the Republicans (from Bush/Rove down to DeLay, etc.) didn't try to use Terri Schiavo politically ("Terri Schiavo was never about partisan politicking but instead about a woman's life.") is either overwhelmingly naive or a liar.
My suggestion: shut Dean up and let the Republicans twist in the wind over the Schiavo case. She deserves better than this from all of us.
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