Reply #5: I think it may. Those republicans who lack the capacity for intelligent

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thought and analysis will continue to blindly follow the republican leaders but many other moderate republicans and independents will not. There is also the possibility that some of the most demented republicans will decide to stay home rather than vote republican again.

I think republican strategists are going to instruct republicans not to discuss the Schiavo case in the future. But Bush and other republicans are going to continue to attack judges and whine about Bush getting only a record percentage, rather than all, of his judicial nominees confirmed. Everytime this happens the Schiavo case will be in many peoples' minds and will represent an example of the republican postion on judges. Most people will not want judges to follow the orders of the republican party rather than the law.