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Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)'s spiritual heirs will fill the halls of the Republican National Convention in late August, but the Democrats have secured his flesh and blood for a prime-time spot at this month's bash in Boston. Ron Reagan, the late president's 46-year-old son, plans to use the global platform of the Democratic National Convention to endorse embryonic stem-cell experiments, an area of research that some think his father would have opposed but which his mother supports. Politically, the booking is a triumph for the Democratic ticket of Sens. John F. Kerry and John Edwards (news - web...

The Democrats' most potent secret weapon? It might very well be MSNBC "Hardball" correspondent Ron Reagan - Son of the Gipper. The 46-year-old Reagan, a trustee of the nominally nonpartisan Creative Coalition, will be speaking out in favor of stem-cell research at next's week's Democratic Convention. "I would want to know whether he believes that the thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghans who have died as a result of our military campaigns will be welcome in heaven [as he imagines it]," Reagan writes. "People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share...

Ron Reagan to host DNC party Boston, MA, Jul. 12 (UPI) -- Former White House first son Ron Reagan is expected to be one of several big names hosting an exclusive party at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Reagan, son of former president and staunch conservative Ronald Reagan, is being joined by scores of celebrities including Ben Affleck, Janeane Garofalo, Bianca Jagger and Harvey Weinstein as hosts of a party on Wednesday, July 28. Tickets for the party start at $1,000 and top out at $50,000. It is being organized by The Creative Coalition, a non-partisan non-profit group comprised...

Ron Reagan, the younger son of the late Republican president, announced this week that he would give a prime-time address in support of stem cell research (search) at the Democratic National Convention in Boston later this month. "Ron Reagan's courageous pleas for stem cell research add a powerful voice to the millions of Americans hoping for cures for their children, for their parents and for their grandparents," said a spokesman for John Kerry to the Associated Press. Reagan told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the speech was intended "to educate people about stem cell research" rather than be critical of President...

Ron Reagan Wrong on Stem Cells Thursday, July 15, 2004 By Steven Milloy Ron Reagan, the younger son of the late Republican president, announced this week that he would give a prime-time address in support of stem cell research at the Democratic National Convention in Boston later this month. "Ron Reagan's courageous pleas for stem cell research add a powerful voice to the millions of Americans hoping for cures for their children, for their parents and for their grandparents," said a spokesman for John Kerry to the Associated Press. Reagan told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the speech was intended "to...

Recently, Ron Reagan, the son of President Reagan, argued on MSNBC how unconscionable it is that there are those in Washington "standing in the way" of stem cell research, given that so many could so quickly reap its benefits. And young Ron's planned prime time speech at the Democratic convention has been touted as a major coup for the Democrats. Not so fast, President Reagan's eldest son Michael says. Discussing the Ron Reagan speech, Michael Reagan told his radio audience on his nationally syndicated Michael Reagan Show (Radio America Network) that brother Ron Reagan has no interest in continuing his...

Remember the Democrats complained that Bush "might try to exploit Ronald Reagan's death in the campaign," but note who's doing it. (story) The Democrats are exploiting the death of Ronald Reagan by asking his son, Ron, a longtime liberal, to speak at their convention. I notice this hypocrisy has been missed in "The Media," which is why we point it out. Of course, the Democrats are all excited about this. Ron Reagan, Jr., to give prime-time speech at Democrat National Convention on stem cell research, as though there's some sort of royalty: You get one Reagan, you've got Ron. Any...

[snip] "It's no shocker," said one Republican, who like many Republicans declined to speak derisively about Mr. Reagan's offspring. "What you've got here is one liberal Democrat speaking at a convention for two liberal Democrats."     The younger Mr. Reagan has been criticizing Mr. Bush for opposing public funding for stem-cell research, the planned topic for his convention speech. He also has publicly opposed Mr. Bush's handling of the war in Iraq and even -- apparently -- his religious faithfulness.     Giving a eulogy at the graveside service for his father, who died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, Mr. Reagan used the...

He just announced this on Hardball; he said that Kerry told him this personally on the phone while they were discussing Reagan's appearance at the Democratic Convention that his first act in office if he's elected will be to sign an executive order to reverse Bush's stem cell policy.

FROM THE CELEB ATHEIST LIST Ron Reagan Jr., Talk Host ent Internet Movie Database Ron had a short lived talk show a few years ago. On one show, he interviewed Charles Manson at Manson's current cell of residence. Manson began "preaching" his "message". During it, he turned to Reagan and asked, "Do you believe in god?" "No, I do not," Ron responded. --CDA

Republicans have Democrat Sen. Zell Miller speaking at their presidential convention, and now the Democrats have landed former President Ronald Reagan's younger son to speak at theirs. Ron Reagan's topic, naturally, will be stem cell research. He and his mother, former first lady Nancy Reagan, along with such Republicans as Sen. Orrin Hatch, favor medical research that destroys human embryos. "Ron Reagan's courageous pleas for stem cell research add a powerful voice to the millions of Americans hoping for cures for their children, for their parents and for their grandparents," said David Wade, a spokesman for Sen. John Kerry....

In his column today, Robert Novak salutes the only man who could put Bush-bashing Ron Reagan in his place. "Nobody knew how to respond in a time of national mourning. Nobody, that is, except William F. Buckley Jr.," Novak writes. Among the shots junior Reagan fired at the president: that his father never wore "his faith on his sleeve," that his "father did not know George W. Bush from Adam," that his "father was a man - that's the difference between him and Bush." And: "This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, they're...

LOS ANGELES - (KRT) - In a move sure to embarrass Republicans, Ron Reagan will address the Democratic National Convention this month. Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan and an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, will be at the podium on the second night of the four-day event in Boston, July 27, in support of stem-cell research, he said Sunday in an interview here. David Wade, a spokesman for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, confirmed Reagan's appearance, but sources said the date had not been determined. Scott Stanzel, press secretary for President Bush's campaign, declined to comment. Reagan,...

RON REAGAN, JR. TO GIVE PRIMETIME SPEECH AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ON STEM CELL RESEARCH, Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter tells ABC News' Dan Harris...

The Son Also Rises Questions for Ronald P. Reagan Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, The New York Times Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United States? I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept. What would you do if Senator Kerry asked you to be his vice president? I would question his sanity. Do you ever go to church? No. I visit my wife's sangha. So you sometimes practice Buddhism? I don't...

Q-Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United States? I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept. What would you do if Senator Kerry asked you to be his vice president? I would question his sanity. Do you ever go to church? No. I visit my wife's sangha. So you sometimes practice Buddhism? I don't claim anything. But my sympathies would be in that direction. I admire the fact that the central...

Did anybody else see Ron Reagan, Jr. yesterday on the tube accusing Republicans of being "homophobia" (and being racist)? The definition of "homophobia" is fear of homosexuals. Well, guess who acted complete TERRIFIED of homosexuals on NATIONAL TELIVISION? None other that Ron Reagan, Jr. himself. It happened during his short lived Ron Reagan Show on TV in the late 1980s. It was a talk show but the one episode that really stands out in my memory is the time the topic was about gay people. Right in the middle of the show some gay folks started accusing Ron Reagan, Jr....

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ron Reagan, the younger son of the late President Reagan, criticized the Bush administration's foreign policy, saying he believed the president misled Americans to gain support for the Iraq war. "We lied our way into the war," he said on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday, referring to allegations that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and direct connections to al-Qaida. "It's a terrible mistake, a terrible foreign policy error." Reagan, 44, a vocal opponent of his father's conservative politics, said he would vote for anyone who could beat the current president. Reagan also said...

Ron Reagan, one of President Reagan's sons, in a recent television interview, insisted that his father only referred to God in "proper setting(s)," such as churches or "whatever": "The way he practiced his religion, the way I saw it, anyway, in terms of his presidency and his public life, was that he was unabashed about it in the proper setting, in a church or whatever. He would be quite open about his feelings. But he didn't use it in a way, I mean, it was a very personal thing to him, and it wasn't . . . a political chip...