Reply #16: I tend to think this will hurt Repubs alot more than Dems [View All]

[Tactical Progressive]

As others have mentioned, the extreme religious antagonists involved in this aren't ever going to vote Democrat, even if Kerry has always gone to church ten times as much as Bush, or any other thing. Nor does the 'motivation' factor mean much because they are already motivated to support whatever right-wing lunacy they are infused with by their media handlers. And even if they had not tried for a sleazy political power play here there is no end to the things that come along that would allow them to foment anger and activism among their nutcase base. In short, the people incited by the Schiavo case can be activated at will and aren't open to debate anyway.

But as to this specific choice of inflammation, they picked a hugely unpopular position on something that is for most people a scary and discomforting situation.

I think for that broad group of people made very uncomfortable by the strident activism of the religious right, this whole issue resolves down to seeing just how scary extreme right-wing judicial activism would be. They all watched Tom DeLay and Jeb and Bush and returning Congressmen constantly going to judge after judge after judge to get their way. It takes no leap from there to connect unease over this incident to unease over these people trying to plant their ideologues into the heart of American jurisprudence.

Nothing could have made this any clearer than the Schiavo case.

Whether Dems will be able to take advangage of the feeling of unease when confronted with the inevitable attempts of BushCo to pack ideologues onto the federal courts, I don't know, but this Republican circus of an attempt to ram their rabid convictions down America's throat can't hurt the effort to slow it down.