I cannot take credit for this. Read it on Washington Monthly, which took it from Brad Delong:
At his website today Brad DeLong grabbed an image of Jeb Bush with the CNN chyron: “BUSH: MY CAMPAIGN IS NOT ON LIFE SUPPORT,” and makes the inevitable connection:
But is it the case that the JEB! Bush campaign’s soul fled long ago? And that it is now being kept alive at huge expense only because of ideology-crazed wingnuts who refuse to recognize the reality of the situation?
Washington Monthly
Here's the original:
Brad Delong Link
For those too young, Jeb Bush helped to force the continued tragedy of Terri Schiavo to go on and on.
The Terri Schiavo case was a legal struggle over end-of-life care in the United States from 1990 to 2005, involving Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo, a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not have wanted prolonged artificial life support without the prospect of recovery, and elected to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo's parents argued in favor of continuing artificial nutrition and hydration and challenged Schiavo's medical diagnosis.[1][2] The highly publicized and prolonged series of legal challenges presented by her parents, which ultimately involved state and federal politicians up to the level of President George W. Bush, caused a seven-year delay before Schiavo's feeding tube was ultimately removed.
In all, the Schiavo case involved 14 appeals and numerous motions, petitions, and hearings in the Florida courts; five suits in federal district court; extensive political intervention at the levels of the Florida state legislature, then-governor Jeb Bush, the U.S. Congress, and President George W. Bush; and four denials of certiorari from the Supreme Court of the United States.[5]
Jeb, like the others Bushes, is an asshole.