So Much for the Crazy Vote in 2008

Bill Frist, after being bitch-slapped with hard evidence that Terri Schiavo was brain dead and beyond recovery, now says that the whole thing was just a mistake, the "chapter is closed," and he really didn't mean to call Michael Schiavo and Democrats murderers. Silly, silly Bill Frist. He was just playin'. Speculatin'. Guessin'. Just what doctors usually do.

It's a good thing that, contrary to popular belief, the last election was won via massive vote fraud committed by Republicans and not, as Bush wants you to believe, by "getting out the Christian vote" (read: batshit crazies who think God speaks to them personally and Bush is the instrument of His will). Because if the 2004 election HAD actually been won by the mythical "3 million conservative Christians" that Karl Rove dreamed up, then Bill Frist would have all but torpedoed his own presidential hopes today when he admitted that the poor, brain dead woman he was screaming about protecting two months ago really wasn't worth all that effort. Apparently, you don't have to keep 'em alive if they're medically proven to be vegetables. That whole "culture of life" pile of crap was just a convenient line. Duh.

Naturally, Frist was told beforehand, by every rational person in the medical establishment who wasn't also trying to get elected the next president of the United States, that Schiavo was beyond hope. But hey, a half-assed apology and one unnecessary autopsy later, he's off the hook. And, happily enough, his career as ass licking toady to the Religious Right never really got off the ground. Say goodbye, Bill.