Is this death with dignity case the nugget that will split them...

[liberalitch]

enough for us to start winning again?

[jean]

1. Our party respects life. Their party uses lives.

[BlueIris]

6. Pete, that's brilliant!

Nice. You may consider that stolen.

[jean]

8. haha - be my guest!

[ooglymoogly]

2. imo this will be forgotten in a few months but

it is the cumulation of all the stupidities of the gop that will do them in. people are finally waking up to the fact that they have been had. it is another nail in their coffin.

[democrank]

3. No.

In order to start winning again, we need some new Democratic leaders.

[liberalitch]

4. well that's for sure.....

but we could still use a "dividing issue" for the freaks...

Hell had levels (circles) so does freakdom

[snippy]

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

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.

[ultraist]

7. This has helped us but it's not the end all

I think people are beginning to see how whacked out those fundie nut hate groups are through the major press they are getting with this case.

It will take more than this though for a major shift in our direction.

[bunkerbuster1]

9. Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning.

to paraphrase the fat racist imperialist brit-dude.

I think a lot of Americans did some head-scratching this past week, wondering WTF their "leadership" was really up to. What happens henceforth depends a lot on how the Dems play it, and let's face it, they haven't exactly been masterful in the art of war lately.

Still, I can't see the reThug leadership completely recovering from this. This will almost certainly hasten DeLay's end, and it may have sunk Frist's presidential aspirations.