[patent]

Not horrible, but like I said, its tepid. He votes with us most the time, but he also voted with Schumer on his additions to the bankruptcy bill, and still strongly supports the stem cell research.

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[sitetest]

Dear patent,

"Not horrible, but like I said, its tepid."

Uh, actually, the voting record is pretty darn good. Not perfect, but close to it.

Your argument is reduced to, "Yeah, but he didn't really mean it when he was voting a nearly-perfect pro-life record."

;-)

"...and still strongly supports the stem cell research."

Yet, last night, I heard he opposes "therapeutic cloning". He favors deriving stem cells from "unwanted embryos", but opposes creating new people to chop 'em up for their stem cells.

That isn't "strong support" for embryonic stem cell research. It's "limited support". It's limited support that I condemn. But lots of otherwise good, solid pro-life Republicans disagree with you and me on this one. I'm not going to disassociate from them because of this. That would be to abandon any realistic hope of reversing the current legal regime of abortion on demand.

He is being strongly denounced by the left for his position. I'm not so sure he's such a bad guy. ;-)


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