Lost lore at this point, but Democrats at the time didn't really understand the politics of the Schiavo case. I am not saying they behaved horribly, I just mean that they didn't understand that while people might have objected to Michael Schiavo's position on removing the feeding tube, they objected to Tom DeLay's position - that Tom DeLay got to decide this matter - even more. Much much more.
Lessons for today, of course.
