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.
Patti "starred" in a movie entitled Playboy-Celebrity Centerfold.
Available on DVD for your...*cough*....entertainment and edification.
Has Patti ever been married? Any children? Any growth?
It's not. Most of us have family members that hold differing political beliefs. The only difference between her and a member of your family that holds liberal beliefs, is that her lineage allows her opinions to be aired on the national scene. Your liberal cousin or sibling, the largest stage their liberal beliefs will be aired on is by the watercooler, or over the grill at the family reunion.
Was reported to be "shacked up" with one of "The Eagles" (the pop group, not the football team) a while back. Can't remember which one.
Nancy loved her husband, but she sure raised 2 HIDEOUS kids, Ron Jr. and Patti are PATHETIC.
"Patti is a misguided little girl. Sadly, she is
still desperately seeking attention."
"The liberal media b.s. machine, The Most Dangerous enemies to America and Freedom"
DITTO on both!
"Oh I am sure Ron Jr. will and so will Patti. The dems are going to be using them BIG TIME!"
Well, dangling power like a carrot to attention starved, emotional crippled people like the Reagan offspring make for easy targets/puppets, very impressionable. They're ready for their close ups Mr. DeMille.
"Patti Davis and R.R. Jr. are excellent examples of why we are fortunate to have a republic instead of a monarchy."
Amen to that!
It's a shame RWR didn't live to bury his children.
Until I scrolled-back to read posting 62 I was wondering which kid you were talking about.
I think on top of all of Ron jr.'s issues is the fact that George Bush Jr. is what every father would want their son to become. He is the son I'm sure ronald reagan sr. would have loved. Ron jr. and George Jr. are peers, and I think Ron jr. can't stand the fact that his father's no. 2 man has become president. it's plain envy. THE ENVY IS OBVIOUS.
I think the envy and resentment are evident in Nancy as well.
The girl is a mess, living in her neverneverland hippie days.
Just look at her atrocious hairdo. That says it all.
How hoggish, and selfish for Nancy to want to harvest, sacrifice and kill the sanctity of life to revitalize her 80 year old husband who lived a fabulous life. Her greedy grasp for power and self serving attitude know no limits. No wonder her kids are all screwed up.
Has Nancy personally made a statement on this issue? So far everything I've read seems to be spokespeople and her children.
I guess they didn't find much to steal from other news sources. They give the other sources one mention and rip out all of the meat from the article, which is considered unethical in journalism (to take someone else's hard work and put it on your own web site). NewsMax doesn't even link to the source they steal it from!
Crimminy. Stem-cell research could help develop medicine to treat or cure diseases like Alzheimers. It's a valid campaign issue. And it's obvious Davis is writing this article and Kerry is making this a campaign issue because Ronald Reagan just died of complications related to Alzheimers. This is neither a "coincidence" nor a conspiracy. Only an idiot would fall for that, but NewsMax counts on having an idiot audience.
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