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 will claim ignorance here...politics is not my strong suit....who is Zell Miller?
I 'm not talking about giving up what we believe in, just acting a little smarter on some issues that stand to loose us votes.
Ronnie-boy needs to go back to Ballet dancing (what a putz)
Just the lastof the great and true Democrats of all time. Thank God for Zell Miller. He puts his country ahead of party.
I forget.
(I'm gonna get flamed big time for that.)
Would now vote for a conservative dem over a RINO anyday.
There's absolutely no proof that this would bring any benefit.
Remember, they said the same thing about fetal tissue research, too.And, that led to nothing.
lmao!
No not at this time but in the future and possibly within this person's lifetime.
Thanks for the education.
Good.
Here's hoping & praying.
Pete
Funny, but not funny.
Yes, he has been crying for attention hasn't he.
The GOP is wrong on this issue.
How about if Ron Reagan's speech educated people about free markets?
The cure to any one of these diseases would be worth tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars on the open market, yet somehow the only way to get people to conduct stem cell research is for the Federal government to finance it.
Why don't the Dems just start a corporation called "The Stem Cell Research Company", and sink all of the union pension funds and Michael Moore movie proceeds and all of the money from all of the Bush-Bashing books, and all of George Soros' money into it?
Then when they make Jillions of dollars from stem-cell research they can use the money to finance every political campaign for the next 200 years.
That wouldn't matter to me. Just speaking at the DNC is traitorous. You do make a good point.
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