Ronald Reagan To Host DNC Party.

The Washington Times ^

[ConservativeMan55]

Ron Reagan to host DNC party Boston, MA, Jul. 12

(UPI) -- 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.

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.

Tickets for the party start at $1,000 and top out at $50,000. It is being organized by The Creative Coalition, a non-partisan non-profit group comprised of members of the entertainment community to educate and advocate on behalf of social and political issues.

Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind., are two of the 13 senators sponsoring the event, along with 19 House members. The non-profit also has events planned at the Republican National Convention in New York in August.

[Vision Thing]

I heard it on one of the cable news channels, but it was back in 2000, so I don't remember the details, nor do I have a link.

Barbara simply replied to Nancy by saying something along these lines: Nancy, it's okay. We cannot control what our kids say or do.

[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

[nopardons]

Oh,but wee Ron P. is using the DNC!

As to how Nancy feels.........she was very pleased with Bill Buckley's rant,errrrrrrr letter to wee Ron,telling him off and refuting the lies he's been spewing.

[Twinkie]

Michael Reagan has made something out of himself.
Ron Reagan (the kid) is reported by the media as
having "broken ranks". I think he and Patti both
have always sounded hostile to the Republican
Party. - Now, Nancy and the biological kids seem
to be united in favor of stem cell research, an
idea that I do not believe that President Reagan
would have endorsed. He was courageous enough not
to say, even when faced with the future of the
disease, "Oh, please anything, anything to spare me!"
He knew that even at 83, he had had a long, full life.

[nopardons]

Tom Clancy is an idiot.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Look for the lapel pin:

[davisfh]

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

I don't think so. I believe that President Reagan is enjoying the peace that he earned. I believe that he knew the nature of his namesake long before Alzheimers overtook him and, being the gentleman that he was, chose to ignore it.

May he ever rest in peace.

[ride the whirlwind]

Ronald Sr. would be so disappointed in his son.

This alone must make the dumbocrats happy as evil as some of them can be.

[counterpunch]

Ron Reagan jr. has always been rebellious against his father. He's always been more interested in impressing his far-left friends by being defiant against his parents. He's never supported Rupublicans. There is no "breaking of ranks" here. He never even voted for his own father.

[counterpunch]

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

[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.

[pollywog]

I think NANCY needs to address the RNC!!!!! This could be a landslide for Bush if she does. The Nation is still dealing with the pain of losing a great leader.

[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.

[AReaganGirl]

Thanks for posting this, especially since it is from Michael Reagan's heart.

It is very important to repeat in the media these words that Michael wrote so that truth would eventually settle in people's minds about stem cell research.

[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.

[oprahstheantichrist]

Has there ever been any credible speculation as to why, as devoted to RR as she was, Nancy raised such losers, and Jane turned out the "normal," ones? By Michael's own admission, he and "Mermie" were the neglected ones, as they were sent to boarding school at some hideously young age. Yet they turned out okay.

I know Michael has way too much class to ever even intimate an opinion publicly, but has anyone else ever offered a reason?

[kenth]

Ron isn't being used. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's using his father's dead body as a stepping stone to further his leftist politics.

The two girls couldn't wait to use their father's death to denounce President Bush. For good measure, they used their mother amidst her grief, too.

[counterpunch]

There is a lot of deep psychology behind the Reagan children. They were Hollywood brats. They wanted to be actors and ballerinas.

Patty changed her last name, and Ron insists on going by Ron, not Ronald. They both have lived under the giant shadow of their parents. It makes a lot of sense that they would try in vain to find their own ways in life - supporting Democrats, posing naked, joining the ballet.

Michael on the otherhand is the opposite psychologically. He was the odd man out, the outsider looking in. He desperately sought his father's approval, always trying to prove his rightful place in the family that adopted him.

What disturbs me now is not Ron Jr's anti-Reagan liberalism as usual, but the fact that suddenly now, after decades of being ashamed to be a Reagan, and running away from any connection to his father, Ron Jr. is now using him and his death it to advance an agenda that Reagan would have never approved of. Ron jr. is attempting to use the father he despised as a weapon against his father's friends and allies.

[Toespi]

Since you asked.....My opinion is that Nancy was a very needy woman and required a vast amount of attention and love to the point of being in competition with her own children. The children learned very early that they could not win, therefore, if they were in direct opposition to their father, they could at least, gain attention and control of their lives. His father and mother have been back in the news recently and he has become more vocal, aggressive and public, which speaks to how he has learned to direct attention towards his own person. I think we would find that throughout Reagan's career, his son's actions coincided with major news coverage of his mother and father. Betcha!