Posted on 07/16/2004 6:47:41 AM PDT by kjfine
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 George Bush. But the Kerry campaign seems to want to scare people by having the son of the revered late President Ronald Reagan decry President Bush and his pro-life supporters as the major roadblocks to a host of supposedly just-around-the-corner miracle cures for cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes and other dreaded diseases.
The spectacle of Ron Reagan at the Democratic Convention will be sad — the disgruntled son of the beloved former president misleading the public with naive hopes while being exploited for political gain by opponents of his father's party. That cynical strategy may get John Kerry a few more votes in November, but it's not going to produce any medical miracles anytime soon, if at all.
Steven Milloy is the publisher of JunkScience.com, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and the author of Junk Science Judo: Self-defense Against Health Scares and Scams (Cato Institute, 2001
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I wouldn't call him a traitor, he was never one of ours anyway.
Ron Reagan is just plain wrong. Trying to take advantage of his father's good name is appalling.
I should have been more clear in my thought....traitor to his father's memory. Yet, you are right, he never has been one of ours.
Perhaps he just believes strongly in the research.
Stem cell research is not illegal, just that Federal funds can't be used for it. So, if this is such a wonderfully promising avenue of reasearch, why isn't it being privatly funded,hmm?
Do you have any idea how much a cure for alzheimers would be?
Unless Nancy Reagan does to George Bush what she did to Ollie North in 1994, and I think it highly unlikly, then I doubt there will be an impact from the Reagan's and this will not hurt much.
You are absolutely right. Ron and Patty were a constant thorn in the side of President Reagan with their anti Christian beliefs and liberal ideas. He is very wrong at this time to speak at the DNC convention. It is his way of grabbing the spotlight. I would like to know what brother Mike really thinks about it all. He is the real class act in the family who loved his Dad and Nancy with honest affection.
I totally agree...the last paragraph of the article (as well as the last in the excerpt posted) expresses my thoughts very well. It is hard to believe that he will speak at the DNC. It seems like he is trying to discredit everything that his father believed in. He should be ashamed.
Perhaps, but to use the DNC as his platform is traitorous to his father's memory!
I hope that you are right.
They say none and the jury is out on such stemcell research work when it comes to this horrible illness.
They say none and the jury is out on such stemcell research work when it comes to this horrible illness.
to a democrat stem cell research should be restricted only to embryonic stem cells (dead babies).
Or, any illness for that matter.
I heard Ron boy admit that stem cells would not work on Alzheimer's on Hardboiled this week.
I'm sure the major media will be picking up on that soon.
waiting
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crickets
maybe he has delusions of being president himself someday - knowing that the republicans are too smart to put him on the ballot.
i mean it HAS happened before
Well, that brings up another issue...abortion...which is where most of those "dead" babies come from.
Based on Ronald Reagan's opposition to abortion. I believe we can safely assume that he would have opposed embryonic stem cell research.
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