I would agree completely except that I have already heard identically-scripted talking points crop up from at least four Dems on C-span in the last six weeks: VA Gov. Mark Warner at some fundraising dinner; Leahy and Durbin while grilling Alito; and someone else I can't recall right now. And Mikey's PAC is part of the plan somehow. The talking points are always about how right-wing religious zealots want a theocracy to intrude into people's private family matters and keep everyone alive forever, and how Terri was an example of the Right's "judicial activism," LOL. That's their script, apparently they really ARE crazy. But I'm convinced they're going to try to use Terri as a campaign issue for the Dems, because I've heard those exact same talking points from several places in the last few weeks.
If this Lakoff guy who was just on C-span said anything about Terri, I missed it. Must have been at the beginning when I was only halfway listening because I thought he was just someone introducing the main speaker. I'll check the tape.
Furthermore, to speak to voters, you want a nice simple message of right and wrong; of moral principle. The Democrats will have to make a very complicated, murky argument to say that the Right is guilty of summoning vast state powers to oppress one unsavory-looking guy surrounded by expensive lawyers making a "private" medical decision to snuff his wife. What's the bumper sticker you make out of that?