UPDATE: I originally wrote this diary in 2012 when it seemed that the GOP was looking for another person when Rmoney seemed liked damaged goods and they were turning to Jeb Bush. It goes through why I think he wouldn't run then and it seems appropriate to go back over it again. I have left it as is and took out the Recommended tags, on a personal note it was my first time on the rec list. I hope that the media will ask him questions about this because in my opinion it goes to judgment and this should disqualify Jeb immediately. I do want to point out another diary that discusses this same story and includes a response from Terry Schiavo's husband about a possible Bush run.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
This site and others has seen much discussion about the clown show that is the GOP nomination process. Much has also been discussed about a possible white knight coming to rescue the party from the impending disaster of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory this election. Much speculation about the white knight entering in has centered around former Florida Governor Jonathan Ellis Bush, he goes by Jeb so he can sound like a regular guy, kind of like Willard Mitt Romney...why are the GOP so afraid of themselves. That is another issue, well Jeb has said on many occasions that he will not run at all and hasn't even given any hint of changing his mind. Maybe there is something that he doesn't want the media to rehash back up again but let us take a trip down memory lane shall we, follow below the orange crushing squiggy of strength!
For every time that the right likes to throw out the name Mary Jo Kopechne to trash the late Sen. Ted Kennedy than we need to throw out the name of Terri Schiavo to trash Jeb Bush around.
For those of you that do not remember a brief history below:
Terri Schiavo suffered temporary heart failure in 1990, depriving her brain of oxygen and leaving it severely damaged. For the past 13 years she has been in a persistent vegetative state. This is a medical term for a condition characterized by wakefulness and spontaneous breathing without conscious functions or thought. Terri Schiavo is capable of only reflexive activity, and must be sustained through a feeding tube.
She left no living will giving instructions on how far doctors should go to maintain her life in the event of such a debilitating accident. Because she is incapable of having thoughts on the matter, let alone communicating these thoughts to doctors and her family, guardianship has been transferred to her husband. This is in accordance with the legally established hierarchy of guardianship. If she had no husband, guardianship would fall to her adult children, and if she had no children, to her parents.
The case is a tragic one by any measure—for Terri Schiavo and for her family, including her husband. Disputes between family members over whether to maintain life support for an individual in a vegetative state or with a terminal illness are, unfortunately, not uncommon. They are never easy to resolve, but there is a definite legal procedure for doing so.
A Florida law passed in 1990 stipulates that a person in a vegetative state can be removed from life support if it can be demonstrated that it is their wish to do so. In 1995 the US Supreme Court ruled that a person being fed through a tube could be permitted to die if “clear and convincing evidence” indicated that that was what the person wanted. Michael Schiavo has fought in court for years to this end.
A Florida court ruled in favor of Mr. Schiavo in 2001, finding that the evidence was clear that Terri would not want to continue in her state. The Schindler family—Terri’s biological kin—repeatedly appealed this decision until all appeals were exhausted earlier this month.
The court’s decision rested in part on the fact that Terri Schiavo’s condition is irreversible. It is the consensus of the medical community that any person who has been in a vegetative state for a prolonged period has no chance of emerging from it, since the parts of the brain that have been damaged are incapable of being regenerated.
But let us not have science get in the way of what is right. No Jeb had to ram through the Florida State House Terri's Law which allowed for him to take over and overturn the court's rulings on this matter. Michael eventually got the Court to overturn Terri's Law and go on with the removal. Of course Jeb's brother W was the President and he got the US Congress, with the help of some Democrats like Tom Harkin, to pass a law to get the Court to look this over again. Time after time the courts ruled in favor of Michael and the tubes were finally removed and Terri was finally at peace.
So how does this get to Jeb, well the fun we could have of having to watch Jeb squirm at a debate to answer for this intrusion into a private affair of the most sensitive nature. Do you want government determining who gets to live or die? Does that sound familiar folks, Sarah Palin I am looking at you!!!!! Or how about Jeb having to answer about passing a law that allows the executive to flat out ignore a court ruling, sounds very dictatorial to me to impose your views on the rest of us, once again sound familiar? Do we want a President who feels that the courts have no use?
Jeb can never run for President EVER because he would have to answer these questions and it would make this clown car we see now look like a picnic. And if you don't believe me that this gambit made Jeb look bad, check out these polls from Quinnipiac at the time.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/...
Oh by the way did I also forget to mention that his idiot brother DUBYA most likely has ruined it for the rest of the family from now till eternity!!!!!!
Mon Feb 27, 2012 at 11:34 AM PT: WOW...woke up this morning and found myself on the RECOMMEND list. Thanks for the love and the thoughtful comments and that goes for the ones in disagreement with me.