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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The only rational, thinking democrat in the Senate.
Why do you say that?
LOL!!! Thanks.
... but too many RINOs.
What drives me mad is the media continually repeating that Bush is not allowing "stem cell research". Lies, lies, lies. I scream at my office radio continually; my boss thinks I'm coming unhinged.
"Yes, he has been crying for attention hasn't he."
Yep, and he's got twenty five years worth. The sad thing is, he's still "empty" inside, and he will forever remain so. Even after addressing the DNC next week.
He thinks it will give him a "release"...it won't. I honestly expect to read sometime in the next decade he's being treated for mental depression, or has a suicide episode. Hope not, but there it is.
What platform should he use, in order to get his message out to the most responsive people?
It makes me wonder what happened that he is so much against everything for which his father stood. It is hard for me to understand something like this.
I honestly do not have an answer to your question. Maybe you do since you seem to be pro-research, pro-democrat. However, for a son to go against everything that his father believed in is outrageous.
"It makes me wonder what happened that he is so much against everything for which his father stood. It is hard for me to understand something like this."
You can fill quite a few books trying to figure out this kind of thing, and still not understand it in the end. All I know is by appearing at the Democratic Convention and speaking in support of John Kerry - a guy that made his name on the left trying to thwart President Reagan on all fronts, he's choosen to disparage his father in a public manner never before witnessed in American politics.
And the saddest aspect isn't the damage he thinks he will cause his departed Father, its the fact this won't help him get on with his own life. It will just make it worse in the end.
"Traitorous" is WAY too strong a word. It's TREASON to disagree with one of your parents on a political issue? Everyone I know disagrees with their parents on all sorts of stuff.
I would look at this more positively. Since at least 1968, the Libs have been telling us that Ronald Wilson Reagan was a dangerous nutjob kook. Reagan was the Democrat poster boy for all that was wrong and evil in the world. Now the theme of the 2004 DEMOCRAT CONVENTION is "What Would Reagan Do?"
"Hi Folks. I just wanted to say I'm pretty sure my dad would be in favor of a certain type of medical research, which could be conducted in the private sector if there were lower taxes and fewer government regulations. Also, my dad would favor a strong military. And a complete end to totalitarianism, communism, and terrorism everywhere on the face of the earth forever. Thank you, Democrats for giving me the time to voice this important message."
Sorry that you don't like my choice of words.
The problem is is you get upset about everything the media blasts Bush about you would stay upset most of the time. Be cool, learn to detect "spin"(lies) from news.
That about sums it up!
Generally I detect the spin, shake my head, roll my eyes, take a breath, and move on. But this issue and the dishonesty of the media really pushes my buttons. Grr.
Oh, and by the way..."traitorous" is not too strong a word. A traitor is not used only when describing someone who has betrayed his country.
My guess, is he probably used the platform he thought best. Apparently without consulting you on it. I don't know Mr. Reagan thoughts on stem-cell research, or anything else. I imagine his son would have a better idea. I don't see why going against something one's father believed in is dangerous...with that attitude, we would never think of anything new.
What makes you think I'm pro-democrat, because I sometimes say things that aren't pro-republican? There are many different ways to think about things.
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