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Originally Posted by roachboy
what does the right really hope to accomplish here? as much as i would love to see the entire edifice fall in on itself, i am not so naieve as to thing this a simple fuck up on the part of the aisle-rove axis--it must be understood as tactically functional at some level. but that functionality is so bizarre....
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Some of the things I consider when I attempt to unravel the functionality of these events is the mobilizing currency this issue is presenting to a highly agitable base. At the most basic level, the right positions itself in a win-win scenario, at least to its most activated members right now.
They do something and obtain results, win
They try and are rebuffed by the court system, they martyr, they win
Both of those positions are easily frameable as oppositional to a judicial system gone awry, at least to this particular group of members.
In the long run: this position appears to fit very well in opposition to the left's long battle over personal rights to death with dignity. As we look over the horizon, we might wonder what looms in terms of the most divisive issue driving vocal minorities to the voting polls--abortion. That issue is on the wane, whether it be settled in their favor via a reconstituted court, or through the political process. Either way, it's mobalizing power is beginning to slip. On to greener, and newly created politically divisive issues, it appears.