Posted on 06/12/2006 2:10:50 PM PDT by Torie
Frist's Cat Problem
Tennessean columnist Gail Kerr notes that Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) "fessed up in his 1989 book, Transplant, to adopting cats from shelters when he was in medical school, treating them like pets for a while, and then using them in his research experiments." The subject also came up in the 1994 Senate GOP primary.
"It was a short-lived local story that briefly flared in the national press. Yes, what Frist did was odd and rather icky, but he also saved a lot of lives as a heart surgeon. The kitty killer charges were widely dismissed, and Frist won the primary.
"But running a national race is a different animal from running a statewide one. He'd better have an answer ready on the cat thing before he can even think about winning the GOP nomination. Running for president requires candidates to dump out their underwear drawer for all to see, answer questions about what color eye shadow their prom date wore, and explain any cross word ever said to their dry cleaner."
As we noted last week, Frist is shopping around another book to come out during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Dogs rule, cats drool........ now you know who made them drool.
Medical schools teach using all sorts of animals.
Doctors practicing on cats is good sense.
It's not like he kicked a dog.
Not that I am a big Frist backer, but this post seems a powerful argument against universal suffrage.
As if frist even had a prayer..
I think Frist's rubber backbone on illegal immigration is a far bigger impediment than offing a few cats.
I'm a cat person, but frankly, the wackos who make an issue about this kind of thing give me the willies.
On the other hand, I think that it was completely bone-headed for Frist to admit he'd done this in any event, and that seems to be consistent with a lot of other bone-headed things he's done. I certainly don't want him to be President.
It's a little surprising to me that he was smart enough to become a doctor.
Don't you think it a tad odd to be killing your own pets to do experiments on? I think the guy has a screw loose myself.
But, Frist won't get far enough in the primaries for this to even be an issue.
We dissected cats in highschool.
No, of course Frist won't. But the article jolted me frankly. I just can't imagine anyone doing that to their pets!
I couldn't
I read a story recently (no, I can't source it) that claimed that more U.S. households had cats than had dogs.
My personal impression of Frist is that he is a pussy. How apropos that his candidacy could get derailed by a bunch of cat owners.
How many of those cats were the student's family pets?
"Frist needs to be de-clawed."
Nonsense. He never had claws or balls in his life.
The guy runs on goinalong-to-gitalong.
The left has everyone's values so twisted that you would actually consider rejecting a heart surgeon because he performed medical research. Good God!
I'm in the process of trying to tame a new kitten. So no, it's not unusual at all to kill your own cats. I think it's amazing any of them live to adulthood. (as I wipe the blood from the keyboard and my shredded hands.)
Discipline in an animal lab is pretty well established and very rigid. If there is a research reason to pet the animals, its done and ends up in a lab book. If not, be prepared to get fired. I worked in a research lab in college and I guaranty that a grad student that would operate on his own pet from home would have been regarded as a nutcase without hope.
Unless you're running as the democratic nominee.
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