Two Republicans are fighting it out for Washington D.C. city council. Someone (nobody’s owning up to it) blasted out one of those annoying robo-calls slamming one of the candidates for paying for an abortion for someone else’s baby.
Look, I know politics can get down into the gutter pretty quick. But what was said in this robo-call is just so stupid that I can’t imagine it helped or hurt anyone.
Just imagine you’re at home. The phone rings, you pick it up and this is what you hear:
“Paying to take a life is evil, especially when you weren’t even the parent…Jim Graham is wretched, immoral, and doesn’t deserve to represent us. Let’s get a decent human being to fight for our children. Not kill them.”
Wait a second. Read that sentence again. “Paying to take a life is evil, especially when you weren’t even the parent.” Is it really better if you’re the parent? Yeah, I killed that kid but he was my kid so it’s all cool or at least not that bad.
Huh?
Whoever made this lost all credibility with the first sentence. Weird. But this is the political season. It’s only going to get weirder from here on in.
September 9, 2010 at 3:39 pm
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September 9, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Oh, boy! That's awful. "With friends like this, who needs enemies?" comes to mind. The message does hurt somebody — it hurts the unborn insofar as it hurts the cause for life. Things like this make it so much easier to dismiss pro-lifers as dumb fanatics.
September 9, 2010 at 4:56 pm
It sounds like a fake pro-lifer who subtly posits that it is OK to kill the baby as long as you're the parent. A similar fallacy is that which says, it is OK to kill the baby as long as you don't do it often. The devil is in the details – literally.
September 14, 2010 at 2:21 am
Reminds me of a call I got during the Florida primaries. A "pollster" asked me what I thought about Mitt Romney's hypocrisy concerning abortion. I'm no Romney fan, but he really did change his position on abortion. He vetoed a bill in MA that would have provided the morning after pill to rape victims, a pretty gutsy move in my opinion. I told the caller that her question was dishonest and that was the end of the conversation.