Bring in the Tapes

Published August 11, 2015 12:45pm ET



As our friend Mollie Hemingway explains in The Federalist, Marco Rubio mopped the floor with Chris Cuomo on CNN Friday morning, finally establishing that a very young human embryo, while not self-sustaining or visibly human, is in fact human life: It is not dead, so it has to be living, and it’s not a kitten or puppy, so human is what it is. But while it was a smack down it was in one sense a missed opportunity, as Rubio, who is usually quick at this sort of allusion, failed to bring up one big thing: Planned Parenthood and the videos, God’s gift this year to the Republican party, which, by any Republican anywhere, should not go unmentioned again.

Since Cuomo was trying to present him as an extremist (due to his views on exceptions for rape), Rubio might have added his views were less so than the “crunchy” abortions discussed on the tapes, and the “crushing” techniques described in process, which Hillary

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