[ConservativeMan55]

We need to start contacting the RNC and The Media Outlets Now!

Michael Reagan NEEDS to speak at the RNC Convention!

[ConservativeMan55]

Michael Reagan. The Good Son.

[Hildy]

It's so obvious, to everybody but him, how they are using him. I wonder how Nancy feels about this. Ronald Sr. would be so disappointed in his son.

[Vision Thing]

ron's appearance at the convention and this party will backfire against him and the dems.

[Casloy]

It's not about what he believes, it's about the attention he is still craving. The Republicans understand he is a lightweight and have no interest so he runs to the Dems. They'll use him and throw him away as soon as the election is over.

[Paul Atreides]

Will the other Reagan daughter be in attendance?

[counterpunch]

The Creative Coalition, a non-partisan non-profit group

Yeah, right.
Anyways, the ballerina can do whatever he pleases. Which former president's son has made something of himself, and which has spent his life running away from his father's name?

George Bush, or Ron Reagan?

[Wiggins]

I guess you can say that Ron Reagan is hosting another dog show.

[COEXERJ145]

That large earthquake just recorded in California is President Reagan turning in his grave.

[Political Junkie Too]

Your changed title had me thinking that Ron decided to use the full name now, perhaps hoping that the aura of his father would pass onto him.

-PJ

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Look for the lapel pin:

[pollywog]

Michael Reagan is speaking at our church in October!! Ron Reagan is a discrace to the family name. MY heart and prayers go out to Nancy and the family.

[gitmogrunt]

Schwartznegger had Ron Reagan in mind,when he coined the phrase " Girlie Man".

[Yosemitest]

Making Sense By Michael Reagan

The media continues to report that the Reagan "family" is in favor of stem cell research, when the truth is that two members of the family have been long time foes of this process of manufacturing human beings – my dad, Ronald Reagan during his lifetime, and I.

The media should keep in mind that we are also members of the Reagan "family," and my father, as I do, opposed the creation of human embryos for the sole purpose of using their stem cells as possible medical cures.

Moreover, using the widely promoted and thoroughly discredited argument that stem cell research can lead to a cure of Alzheimer’s disease, the media and proponents of stem cell research have suggested that had the research been done a long time ago, my dad might have avoided the ordeal he endured. This is junk science at its worst.

As William Clark, dad’s national security advisor, interior secretary and one of my dad’s closest friends and aides wrote in a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times my father’s "suffering under Alzheimer's disease was tragic, and we should do everything we can that is ethically proper to help others afflicted with it. But I have no doubt that he would have urged our nation to look to adult stem cell research — which has yielded many clinical successes — and away from the destruction of developing human lives, which has yielded none." And he warned, "Those who would trade on Ronald Reagan's legacy should first consider his own words."

Here’s what my father said way back in 1983: "My administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning."

To make matters worse, those arguing for embryonic stem cells have embarked on a campaign of disinformation, claiming that there are scientific reasons for believing that their research can be expected to lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

Listen to what Ronald D.G. McKay, a stem cell researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke told the Washington Post: "People need a fairy tale," he said, explaining why scientists have allowed society to believe wrongly that stem cells are likely to effectively treat Alzheimer's disease. He added "Maybe that's unfair, but they need a story line that's relatively simple to understand."

A story line that is a flat out lie.

Writing in the Weekly Standard, lawyer, ethicist and human life advocate Wesley J. Smith reported that "Researchers have apparently known for some time that embryonic stem cells will not be an effective treatment for Alzheimer's, because as two researchers told a Senate subcommittee in May, it is a ‘whole brain disease,’ rather than a cellular disorder (such as Parkinson's). This has generally been kept out of the news. But now, Washington Post correspondent Rick Weiss, has blown the lid off of the scam, reporting that while useful abstract information might be gleaned about Alzheimer's through embryonic stem cell research, ‘stem cell experts confess . . . that of all the diseases that may be someday cured by embryonic stem cell treatments, Alzheimer's is among the least likely to benefit.’"

People such as Nancy, however, have been allowed to believe otherwise - "a distortion," Weiss writes that "is not being aggressively corrected by scientists." Why? The false story line helps generate public support for the biotech political agenda. As Weiss noted, "It [Nancy Reagan's statement in support of ESCR] is the kind of advocacy that researchers have craved for years, and none wants to slow its momentum."

Unlike the hyped embryonic stem cell research, adult stem cell research is already paying dividends. According to Michael Fumento, one of the nation’s most skilled debunkers of junk science, "Over the horizon are so-called adult stem cells (ASCs), extracted from people of any age and from umbilical cords and placentas. Not only don't they carry the moral baggage of embryonic stem cells (ESCs), but research with them is much further along.

Fumento adds, "Unfortunately, embryonic stem cell researchers have so powerful a PR machine that many influential people don't even know there's an alternative."
Note to the media: Next time you write about the "family," remember both dad and me. It’s our family too.

Mike Reagan is a board member of the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation and is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America network. Comments to mereagan@hotmail.com for Mike.

©2004 Mike Reagan.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Girlie man Ron needs his 15 minutes of Andy Warhol fame, then like all whores, he will fade back into nothingness once used by the two Johns.

[eeriegeno]

Reagan, son of former president and staunch conservative Ronald Reagan, is being joined by scores of celebrities including Ben Affleck, Janeane Garofalo, Bianca Jagger and Harvey Weinstein as hosts of a party on Wednesday, July 28.

Ah ha, the 'heart and soul' of America strikes again?

[Paleo Conservative]

It is being organized by The Creative Coalition, a non-partisan non-profit group

Gadhafi needs to sue them. They're neither creative nor non-partizan.

[rewrite]

What a waste of a good man's reproductive efforts this loser turned out to be. Sheeesh!

[paltz]

Ron "Cain" Reagan Jr. & Miichael "Abel" Reagan

[newzjunkey]

So has this non-partisan, non-profit group organized a party to be held in NYC for the GOP convention?

Michael Reagan is every bit as much a whore using the good name of his father for his own profit as Ron P. I don't want to hear from any of them on the GOP convention.

[aruanan]

Former White House first son Ron Reagan is expected to be one of several big names hosting an exclusive party at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

In other words, When Good Seed Goes Bad or The Perils of Conceiving Using Aging Sperm.