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The Terri Factor in Wisconsin...

(Remembering to the left, killing an innocent like Terri is "good" and defending that innocent's life is "bad")

Appleton -- Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle said today he has spent so much time in traditional Republican strongholds -- including Waukesha County and the Fox Valley -- seeking the votes of GOP voters turned off by the "extreme" views of their party's leaders and candidates.

"What's happened with the Republicans is, they have gone so extreme in so many issues," Doyle told reporters after speaking to a group of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans operations center workers.

"This isn't the Republicans that I used to know," Doyle added. "Now, it's the Republican Party that wants to ban stem cell research, and a Republican Party that wants to intrude in one family's life in Florida," referring to the Terri Schiavo case.

Doyle holds lead in latest poll

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The Terri Factor at Wake Forest...

"I am a conservative, BUT." And it is that big BUT that makes him a seminar caller.

I am a Southerner, a conservative, and what the press cynically labels a Bible-believing Christian. I’ve voted in every election since the day I turned 18. I drank the Kool-Aid of Reaganism. I’m on the mailing lists. On paper, I’m what Karl Rove secretly wishes every American would be. And this election day, I will be voting for every Democrat seeking national office I can.

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Where once Republicans stood for states rights and ceding powers to local governments, they now stand for, well, the opposite. No Child Left Behind forces narrow-minded, federally mandated priorities on local. It’s a law that contains so much hand-fisted big government, it made Sen. Ted Kennedy smile ear to ear. And when the Terri Schiavo life support case made the news last year, Republicans in Congress rushed to interfere, steamrolling over the rule of law and local courts in the process. It was what former Speaker of the House Dick Armey rightfully called the “chilling act” of an “arbitrary and imperial Congress.”

Every Republican should vote for a Democrat

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Mr. Doyle is lying. For one thing, the law to allow de novo review of Terri's case had unanimous support from Senate Democrats and a strong majority of House Democrats. Iow, they too voted to "intervene," as they now put it. For Democrats to charge this issue to Republicans is not only flagrantly dishonest, it is a shameful reversal of their own once-honorable position.

For another, nobody's working "to ban stem cell research." That is cheap, dishonest rhetoric (typical of Doyle and a lot of other Democrats). A federal ban already exists on funding for research on new strains of embryonic stem cells -- not adult or cord blood stem cells. That's to keep researchers from killing unborn babies to get stem cells, Mr. Doyle. Stem cell research is legal under federal law and in all fifty states, including research on existing ESC strains.

Actually, the market is making the "law" in stem cell research. ES cells cause tumors and have had zero success in any new therapy. They are such a hopeless case, all the private money is going adult and cord blood stem cell research that is proving to be successful in therapy after therapy.