If we could only hold still so we can be redefined by "conservatives" who know better...
After all, our noticing that Adult Stem Cells, which really help are different than Embryonic Stem Cells which do no good, just cause tumors, is a view "unscientific" to certain elements who say the real truth lies in the vague blending of these opposites into one lump.
And we know global warming or cooling or whatever is a given, beyond dispute, beyond evidence or mere data.
By pursuing rhetoric and policies that targeted the religious right, Bush and Rove turned off many others, certainly including the well-educated, who reacted to their anti-science opposition to stem-cell research and global warming. The turning point, I believe, was a more emotional issue, that of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who brought Bush and his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, to the barricades in 2005 to back legislation keeping her on life-support over the protests of her harassed husband. Autopsies showed the woman's brain was in a "vegetative state," and the cynical appeal to religious conservatives turned off huge numbers of voters. Polling at the time showed most Americans, of both parties, rejected the Bushes' campaign to "save" Schiavo, and were disgusted at the raw partisan appeal in a tragic case.
Now if we could just swallow some old bad tasting mantras...
The Republicans need more than a (right) wing and a prayer
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It's painful to relive all the great failures that have led us to the point where we are now: the Schiavo affair, Bush's stem cell funding ban, the New Orleans catastrophe, and of course what has proven to be the overwhelming issue of this election and of the past several years: Iraq.
The Republicans Deserved to Lose
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