Posted on 06/14/2004 9:14:37 AM PDT by areafiftyone
This weekend's announcement by Patti Davis Reagan that she intended to take on the Bush administration over the issue of stem cell research isn't the first time she's found herself on the same page with Sen. John Kerry.
In a move that most viewed as coincidental, Kerry just happened to decide to devote his Saturday radio address to the stem cell issue at the same time Patti was penning her Newsweek piece on the issue.
But lo and behold, it turns out that Ms. Davis and Mr. Kerry aren't exactly strangers to one another.
Back in 1989, for instance, Davis turned to ex-Kerry staffer Eric Hamburg for help with her second novel, "Deadfall," about the U.S.'s involvement in Nicaragua. Patti was still in her rebellious phase and Kerry was an outspoken critic of her father's decision to fight the Soviet-backed Sandinista regime.
Around the same time, Davis approached Sen. Kerry directly for help with her Save-the-Dolphin campaign. The Massachusetts Democrat was then a member of Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and vice chairman of the National Ocean Policy Study.
She invited Kerry to see film footage taken by fellow environmentalist Sam LaBudde of dolphins being killed by tuna fishermen.
Before long, her visits to Kerry's office - the senator was a bachelor at the time - sparked reports that the two were an item, something that Davis denied.
"Patti wants her denial on the record," reported the Washington Times in 1990.
"She says there's definitely no romantic interest between the two. Nothin' but dolphins. As a matter of fact, they've only been to lunch together once - several months ago in an L.A. restaurant. Born-on-the-Fourth-of-Julyster Ron Kovic was also along on that lunch date."
"People can't figure out what I'm doing in my private life. I drive them crazy," Davis explained.
Still, as recently as two years ago - the same month Kerry announced for president, as happenstance would have it - Davis was talking about Kerry's influence on her life in, of all places, National Review.
Explaining how Sept. 11 attacks had changed her outlook, the anti-Bush Reagan daughter noted:
"In the weeks that followed [the attacks], I wept almost every time I saw a flag or heard the verses of 'America the Beautiful.' Yet behind my tears was the memory of a young girl who, decades ago, used to talk about leaving America, who was angry at the war in a jungle country called Vietnam where fresh-faced boys were being sent to slaughter and be slaughtered. 'How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?' John Kerry asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. 'How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?'"
Of course, now that the issue of stem cell research has given Democrats a way use President Reagan's death to bash Bush, mum's the word in the media about previous Kerry-Davis alliances.
Kerry can have Patti, We'll take Nancy!
Patti is a misguided little girl. Sadly, still despirately seeking attention.
While this is interesting, I'm not so sure it's all that ourtrageous.
It's only a matter of time before the media start using Ron Jr. and Patti to drive a wedge and contrast their beliefs and what their father stood for. I suspect Ron Jr. will be on HardBall within a month and start smearing President Bush when asked about President Bush inheriting President's Reagans legacy. Count on it.
Actually I was happy patti reconciled with her parents but I knew she didn't change her spots. She reminds me alot of Jane Fonda in that way - Jane Fonda reconciled with her Father before he passed on but she never really changed her spots.
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Them dolfin are some good eating.
Ping.
Oh I am sure he will and so will Patti. The dems are going to be using them BIG TIME!
ONe hopes Bush has been Following Fumento.
Call me crazy, but wasn`t it Patty who seemed to come out with a book every 2 seconds (it seemed) bashing her parents back when Reagan was Prez? I never read these books, but wasn`t it her who called her mother a pill popper and all this other crap? I remember feeling annoyed because I would read about it all the time "Patti Davis comes out with new book bashing her parents" and I remember thinking what a classless broad. Real nice, your dad becomes Prez and you cash in on him by bashing him.
He already has. Little Crissy Matthews was drooling on his bib. LOL!
"People can't figure out what I'm doing in my private life. I drive them crazy," Davis explained.
Wonder who she is referring to. I don't know nor have I heard a single person express any interest in what Patty Davis Reagan is doing!
Those two are a disgrace.
Is NewsMax *THAT* desperate for stories?
Without him they become nothing.
Howard Fineman was crooning about the wonderful Ron today on Imus....Trust me...he will campaign aginst Bush in one form or another..There is to be a big push for stem cell research which I am sure will feature Nancy, also.
They can smear him all they want - the American public is not stupid. They stood in line to watch the procession because of what they respected in President Reagan. Don't think for a minute that respect can be manipulated into supporting anti-Reagan, anti-Bush policies.
This proves the Democrats did not even grasp what the American people saw in Ronald Reagan, the funeral and the services.
The more they try manipulation, the more respect is lost for Ron and Patti and the more we are astounded that they do not even comprehend what it was that we loved their father for.
Patti Davis and R.R. Jr. are excellent examples of why we are fortunate to have a republic instead of a monarchy.
First we don`t start wars if democrats are in charge because democrats will invariably screw it up. If a war must be fought, an amendment should be passed to allow for the Democrat to be impeached so a Republican can step in and properly fight the war. Second when a Republican comes to fix things and win the war, which if you can believe, crazy enough, is usually the goal when fighting a war, we allow that Republican to try and win it instead of joining the enemy by sending products of nepotism to Hanoi to pose with the enemy and backstabbing vets who are French but make pretend they are Irish who bad mouth their former comrades.
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