Carl Rove’s Attempt To Fire Up The Core With Schiavo Case May Turn Into GOP Emollition!

I can’t blame President Bush, Governor Jeb Bush or their political advisors for underestimating the righteous zeal of their Red-State, Born Again, Fundamentalist Christian power-base. All are relatively new to the true depth of the unyielding rationalizations of the Fundamentalist mind-set. But for a veteran exile of the Fundamentalist movement like myself, I can only say, I told you so. (See Blog: Bush’s Unholy Trinity Posted 11/7/04)
The modern American fundamentalist movement was born in the south during the boiling years of the Civil Rights Movement. While it outwardly criticized the plight for equal rights, the movement borrowed ideology from both Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm’s, “by any means necessary,” battle cry and Dr. King’s , “responsibility to disobey unjust laws,” were hypercharged when they were adopted by the likes of Falwell, Jones and Robertson. If one is a born-again child of God and acting on divine inspiration (as Bush as claimed for his invasion of Iraq) then certainly any means are in-play if the end be God’s will. This is the logic that has driven violence against abortion clinics and justified a litany of overtly illegal acts by a small cadre of allegedly, “devoted follows of Jesus Christ.”
The Bush brother’s, both Jeb and George have seen their approval and popularity ratings plummet in recent days, driven by criticism from their loyal core. What the Bush’s don’t understand is that in the minds of their supports, God’s law (as they see it) overrides man’s law (the numerous Schiavo court rulings) and the brothers Bush should simply invade the hospice (the way GWB invade Iraq) and reinsert the feeding tube.
The Schiavo case, which GOP strategists were hoping would smother the reality of the quagmire in Iraq, soaring gas prices and Bush’s controversial Social Security reforms, has backfired badly because of the Bush brother’s reluctance to ignore the law.I doubt the Democrats will benefit directly from this growing schism in the Republican ranks. More likely, it will leave behind fertile political ground for more extremist fundamentalist candidates like Randal Terry who have nudged their way into the limelight of the Schiavo case. Normally such a drawdown of one party’s strength benefits the opposition. But the other reality is that ultra-extremists like Terry will actually take total of the GOP and many moderate members of the party will simply shut-up and go-along to get-along leading to the second American Civil War and bloodbath that will make the Spanish Inquisition look like a Methodist sprinkle baptism.
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