Harold Ford met Stephen Colbert last night. You can watch the video below.
Note to Mr. Ford: If you want “to expand the definition of ‘pro-life’ to apply to other issues, such as [education and] health care and veterans’ benefits,” stop using the term “pro-life.” It’s their language not ours. It will never be ours and can only be defined by the definition they have chosen for it. Create your own language to say what you mean to encompass the important issues you cite and then repeat the heck out of it to make it stick.
Also, the next time someone confronts you on marriage equality try, “I don’t think churches should have to marry two men or two women if they don’t want to.”
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Updated: Apparently CQ Politics’ Taegan Goddard has never hear of the “Colbert Bump.” The election is a long way off and more New Yorkers know who Harold Ford is now than did a month ago. Why wouldn’t he go on The Report?
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“Stop using the term “pro-life.” It’s their language not ours. It will never be ours and can only be defined by the definition they have chosen for it.”
Thank you, Mary! The term “pro-life” bugs me to no end, as if those who support a woman’s right to choose are anti-life.
The only worse term is “pro-abortion,” which is so ugly on so many fronts. I’m tired of some Democrats ceding the moral ground on this issue. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — the pro-choice crowd is for prevention of abortion through a well-thought-out variety of strategies; the anti-choice crowd is for criminalization of abortion, which is an overly simplistic answer to a complex problem.