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Oh, I agree that they are already using Terri scripts and plan to do more in the campaigns. But I think they have tin ears about what resonates with voters. Lurid tales about theocratic Right-Wingers only play for the Angry (and very stupid) Left. A decent sampling of more intelligent leftists fought for Terri. Nat Hentoff did an outstanding job of telling the truth about Terri in the Village Voice. Others who spoke up for her or at least expressed rational misgivings included Sen. Tom Harkin, Alan Dershowitz and Gloria Allred, plus an appearance by Jesse Jackson that unfortunately didn't seem too sincere.

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?

But I think they have tin ears about what resonates with voters.

Agree totally! To hear that Lakoff guy this morning explain it, they are out of power because they haven't used the proper language to make the people understand their "progressive" values. Heh heh heh.

I figure they'll put poor, persecuted Mikey on their bumperstickers, he went through so much, you know! The right-wingers made a martyr out of him when all he wanted was to off his wife in privacy, the meanies. Keith Olbermann told me so. ;-)

It would almost be amusing, except that it feeds the big lie about what was done to Terri -- it continues to muddy the waters and give the biodeathicists cover. Plus, it makes me really angry to think of the Schindlers having to listen to this twisted spew all year.

Gotta sign off for the day, back later tonight. Didn't get a chance to check the beginning of that guy's speech, but will get it tonight.