Remember Elian Gonzales? It seems that little Elian and Terri Schiavo may have something in common. The Democrats were/are against both of them.

Little Elian’s mother gave her life so he could be free. The Democrats, as you may recall, would have none of that and forcibly and violently sent him back to a communist tyrant. Freedom, it seems, is just an empty word at best to the Democrats and, at worst, something they innately dispise.

And now there is Terri Schiavo; a woman who apparently has had poor medical treatment, no rehabilitative efforts, seems to be physically viable except for her need for a feeding tube, has some questions surrounding the cause of her condition, and the leftist Democrats are joining the group that wants to kill her. This is just not a good case for the Democrats to trumpet as a right-to-die case. But blinded by their twisted ideology they foolishly stumble on.

Is it hard to understand why the Democrats are opposed to something like, say, a free Iraqi people and seem to love the tyrants (terrorists)? It really is who they are; leftists sitting on the edge of their primordial soup; an imposed tyranny of the twisted ideology of, what they believe to be, the true religion. They are the elitists, the rightful survivors of the next step in the progressive process of evolution. Just give them all the power and the world will be perfect or so they seem to believe.

And so we face a truly defining moment in the course of history. And it has taken a George W. Bush to flush them out with his courage, his faith, and his tenacity. The leftists cloaking themselves in the Democrat mantle are fully exposed. For they no longer represent the downtrodden, the helpless, or the defenseless. They have come to represent themselves and will use anyone and anybody to try and achieve the crowning they think is rightfully theirs.

And Terri Schiavo and her tenacity are defining the moment even more. She is truly a hero whether she lives or whether she dies. While the Democrat leftists root for her death, they may well be spelling that for their party.

Eric adds: It seems there are others who also are seeing some similarities between Elian’s and Terri’s situations. Southern Appeal links to James Lileks:

The Schiavo matter is the Elian Gonzalez case of 2005, a person who stands at the nexus of a variety of irreconcilable issues. Some people wouldn’t care at all if she died, unless she had been the sole occupant of a hospital in Baghdad leveled by an errant Tomahawk; then you’d see her face in every protest march.

Talk Show America:

Back in 2000, the Clinton administration saw fit to send machine-gun-toting federal agents into Miami under the cover of darkness to ship Elian Gonzalez back to Fidel Castro.

Unfortunately for then-Attorney General Janet Reno, a photographer was able to capture that horrible moment in an enduring image of shameful tyranny. Now Florida state judge George Greer has issued a morally corrupt order for the brutal starvation of an American citizen, Terri Schiavo - and an outraged nation is impotent to act.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush, President Bush, and the United States Congress have all moved to save her life and yet the nation is held hostage to a single judge.

The Department of Injustice has a different take:

Conservatives weren’t interested in parents’ rights when Elian Gonzalez was brought to America. His father wanted him returned to Cuba, but those on the right are opposed to Castro’s regime, and didn’t think that Elian’s father’s rights should have mattered. With Terri Shiavo, her parents want her kept alive. Now parents’ rights are the only thing that matter to the right.

And Captain Ed:

This case may not be an exact analogy, but it comes close. Terri cannot make the decision for herself, and the two families have essentially taken mutually exclusive positions. The court has weighed in to take the extreme position, the one that cannot be reversed if carried out in full, despite the existence of other family members willing to take care of her. Despite pleas for mercy and a rehearing on the factual basis of the case, as it turns out that Terri did not have the proper tests done to reach the diagnosis accepted by the court, the judge has essentially closed off the debate and appellate courts don’t usually take up findings of fact, only matters of procedure. Just as with Elian, when the government abdicated its responsibility to determine what was best in favor of the knee-jerk reaction to abide by the wishes of the next of kin, the Florida court appears ready to do the same thing with Terri.