The Terri Schiavo story has produced the usual Republican grandstanding and chest-thumping about the "culture of life" they claim to support -- with the implication, of course, that moderates and liberals don't support it.
The GOP has been getting away with this deceptive frame for far too long, thanks in part to our sorry joke of a news media, and thanks in part to a comatose Democratic leadership.
A party that enthusiastically embraces the death penalty, to the point of hurrying to execute death-row inmates before any last-minute exonerating evidence emerges, is not "pro-life".
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