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Patti Davis' Kerry Connection
Newsmax ^ | 6/14/04

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.


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To: capydick
Today on Imus, Howard Fineman confirmed that Ron Jrs' eulogy was indeed a swipe at Bush. Noted his personal relationship with Ron, that they both work for MSNBC and have had numerous conversations on his political leanings. Ron's a liberal "independent". Said that Ron cannot stand Bush.

Fineman waxed poetic over the intellect of Jr. and said it's likely that he will run for some political office in Washington state. Interesting how a Yale undergrad, Harvard MBA, fighter pilot, baseball team owner, two term governor, and POTUS is an dolt but a one term Yale dropout, second string ballet dancer, infrequent political pundit and Animal Planet host is an intellectual giant and a potential political rising star.

21 posted on 06/14/2004 9:46:35 AM PDT by CaptainK
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To: chemicalman

Especially with mango-jalepeòo salsa.


22 posted on 06/14/2004 9:48:41 AM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: bannie

ditto, seeking attention in all the wrong places. She should be upholding her fathers legacy, not mocking it.


23 posted on 06/14/2004 9:48:56 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: MEG33
We were crossposting. Seem my entry post #21. We both heard the same thing this morning.
24 posted on 06/14/2004 9:49:27 AM PDT by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

I wrote about it on an old thread early this morning..Fineman's statement that Ron shared many of the qualities of his father had me reaching for the Pepto Bismol.


25 posted on 06/14/2004 9:53:24 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: Mister Baredog

Okay...on another post I said I'd be pestering the local bookstores about the release date of Patti's book just to counter the Clinton book craze. Now I'm not so sure I'll do that...OR buy her book. Better wait and see which Patti she decides to be, I guess.

Let's hope what she & Ron saw last week helps them finally get over what their father was not and appreciate all that he was.


26 posted on 06/14/2004 9:55:28 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: BykrBayb
jalepeno. The n under the ~ turned into an o when I posted it. Hmmm...
27 posted on 06/14/2004 9:58:34 AM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: bannie

"Patti is a misguided little girl."


Patti is a middle-aged, over-the-hill hippie still trying to look like she's 21.


28 posted on 06/14/2004 10:11:37 AM PDT by Maria S ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm."George W. Bush 1/20/01)
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To: CaptainK
Interesting how a Yale undergrad, Harvard MBA, fighter pilot, baseball team owner, two term governor, and POTUS is an dolt but a one term Yale dropout, second string ballet dancer, infrequent political pundit and Animal Planet host is an intellectual giant and a potential political rising star.

Just goes to show you the lengths that the left will go to support one of their own. The truth and facts are secondary to their established opinions. They are scum.

29 posted on 06/14/2004 10:20:23 AM PDT by capydick ("There's no question I'm an idealist, which is another way of saying I am an American.")
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To: CaptainK
Don't forget Ron,Jr. excellent adventure commentating on dog shows!

Perfect qualification for political office.

30 posted on 06/14/2004 10:20:57 AM PDT by OldFriend (LOSERS quit when they are tired/WINNERS quit when they have won)
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To: MEG33
The other day Fineman was pontificating that even tho he didn't know President Reagan, knowing the son was to know the president.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

31 posted on 06/14/2004 10:22:01 AM PDT by OldFriend (LOSERS quit when they are tired/WINNERS quit when they have won)
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To: CaptainK

I think you've just described one of the many reasons why Ronny hates GWB.
Two First Sons with two entirely different lives...or in Ron's case, failures.


32 posted on 06/14/2004 10:24:48 AM PDT by cwb (If it weren't for Republicans, liberals would have no real enemies)
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To: Mister Baredog

Wussy Matthews and PMSNBC will hype Ron Jr's first appearance more than they hyped Richard Clark's interview. I wont watch but - you can bet your mortgage that Wussy will try his damndst to get Ron to deny that President Bush has any claim to Ronald Reagan's legacy and any other connection between the two.


33 posted on 06/14/2004 10:26:32 AM PDT by capydick ("There's no question I'm an idealist, which is another way of saying I am an American.")
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To: cwb

I noted on another thread that you don't need a degree in psychology to figure this one out. Two Presidential sons...namesakes in fact. Last time I saw Ron Reagan, Jr. he was hosting the Westminster Dog Show. Last time I saw Bush he was giving the State of the Union Adress. Go figure it out.


34 posted on 06/14/2004 10:32:49 AM PDT by Hildy ( If you don't stand up for what's RIGHT, you'll settle for what's LEFT.)
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To: chemicalman
Them dolfin are some good eating.

No wonder the tuna doesn't taste as good as it used too.

35 posted on 06/14/2004 10:34:56 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (rest in peace President Reagan, you will be missed and remembered forever)
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To: cwb; All

And here's something else I speculate. In 1980 when Reagan took office how old was Ronald Reagan, Jr.? I'm sure there were times at various functions when the Reagan children and the Bush children were in attendance. And the Bush boys...handsome, athletic, MACHO...and then there was Ronald Reagan, Jr. A ballet dancer. How much you wanna bet the Bush boys got the attention from Ronald Reagan, Sr. I'd put on it.


36 posted on 06/14/2004 10:36:03 AM PDT by Hildy ( If you don't stand up for what's RIGHT, you'll settle for what's LEFT.)
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To: areafiftyone

News Alert to Ron Jr, Patti Davis (what happened to your REAGAN last name), and even Nancy...

It was RONNIE that we all loved - not you guys.
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This will go no where.


37 posted on 06/14/2004 10:39:48 AM PDT by Mayflower Sister
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To: areafiftyone

Patti - get a haircut!


38 posted on 06/14/2004 10:43:50 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: BykrBayb

Yo creo, ya gotta have a Spanish keyboard, como este...ñ ¿ ? ! ¡


39 posted on 06/14/2004 10:45:31 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse (John Kerry, Unfit to be Commander in Chief)
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To: Hildy

Yep! Ronny was probably the odd-man out just in the political sense since GW was more interested in Ron's own fathers ideals, than he was. I see alot of resentment and perhaps jealousy.


40 posted on 06/14/2004 10:45:34 AM PDT by cwb (If it weren't for Republicans, liberals would have no real enemies)
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