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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Never fear you can defeat them with logic every time, after a while they get frustrated and give up and go away, or at worst whisper about you in little rat huddles, that's when you know you have won.
Absolutely. I agree.
huh? :)
I can't wait for Nov 3!
And that is your right as an American in a free country. Go for it.
Yeah me too, there will be a lot of sad, droopy rat tails dragging around.
IMHO, his father would not approve of the platform. I never said that "going against somethin one's father believed in [was] dangerous." I disagree with my dad on a lot of things. I just do not go out of my way to tell everybody that I disagree. It seems to me that in the past, Ron Reagan has gone out of his way to disagree with Dad, and done it publicly.
Regarding my comment about pro-democrat...I apologize, I was out of line when I look at the "conversation" from an objective point of view.
Hmmm, it is also important to me because my Granddad has Alzheimers Disease. However, I will not support research using the stem cells of aborted babies because I believe that abortion is morally wrong in the first place. If no aborted babies' stem cells are used, I am fine with this research.
Now, how do you figure that the prohibition of this research will harm our economy?
Sorry, my mistake...outrageous instead of dangerous.
I don't know the son, but it seems, for the benefit of the doubt, that he is really concerned with this issue.
If the research isn't done here it will be done somewhere else. Thus, the biotech firms in other countries could gain an advantage. Billions of dollars could be lost if and when cures or treatments for these diseases are discovered by foreign companies.
I can understand that since his father just died of a disease that might benefit from stem cell research. However, I do not agree with his view. My main irritation is that he is doing it at the DNC. IMHO, President Reagan is rolling over in his grave, as they say, because of that.
Ah, there we have the old health care issue. It is all about money, is it not?
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