Re: OT: GOP 'Frontrunners' Forgetful Numnutzes?

Schiavo is only important to those connected with the case, and those who need to get a life. Nobody else cares-and doesn't need to-now.
JR

HK wrote:

> I suppose if you nominate a forgetful idiot once, doing it again
is no biggie:

Fred Thompson unprepared to answer on Terri Schiavo case

BY HELEN KENNEDY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, September 14th 2007, 4:00 AM



GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said he doesn't remember much about the Terri Schiavo case that commanded the nation's attention in 2005 - though he appeared in a "Law & Order" episode ripped from those headlines.

Thompson's campaign rollout has hit some early potholes, and his nonanswer to a question about the wrenching feeding-tube case seemed to underscore his lack of preparation.

"I can't pass judgment on it. I know that good people were doing what they thought was best," Thompson said in Florida when asked about the case. "That's going back in history. I don't remember the details of it."

The legal fight over whether Floridian Michael Schiavo could yank his brain-damaged wife's feeding tube after 15 years became a political football when the GOP-led Congress passed a law that would have reinserted the tube.

Thompson's Tennessee colleague, Sen. Bill Frist, who had his own presidential aspirations, made himself a laughingstock by diagnosing Schiavo as mentally aware based on an edited videotape. An autopsy later proved him wrong.

The case was on the front page of every newspaper and generated dinner table arguments across the country.

Thompson helped prep Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts for his Supreme Court confirmation hearings that summer and discussed the case then.

In November 2005, Thompson's NBC show even aired an episode called "Age of Innocence" about a husband trying to disconnect his wife's feeding tube over the objections of her family.

The Schiavo question - still a big issue in Florida - has already ensnared former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also pleaded a faulty memory when a Florida reporter asked him in March if he had supported the efforts to keep her alive.

"I believe I did," Giuliani said. "It's a while ago ... I am not sure now."


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