Ron Reagan, who gave disloyal, backstabbing sons a bad name in the 1980s, will speak at the Democratic National Convention later this month. He wants Dr. Mengele's spiritual descendants to create and destroy tiny human beings at will, and he doesn't like the Bush Administration's opposition to such things.
"This gives me a platform to educate people about stem-cell research," Reagan said. "The conservative right has a rather simplistic way of characterizing it as baby killing. We're not talking about fingers and toes and brains. This is a mass of a couple hundred undifferentiated cells."
Of course, when we are talking about entities with "fingers and toes and brains," the Democrats want to destroy them, too -- but not for any high-minded reasons like curing heart disease or Alzheimer's or whatever stem cells are supposed to fix this week. They think it's fine to rip off the arms and legs of live babies in utero -- abortionists need something more substantial to grip than fingers and toes -- or suck out the brains of babies who could survive on their own. The reason isn't medical research, but how can you possibly question the tough, personal decision to stab an eight-month-old fetus in the back of his neck as he's being born?
Characterizing the killing of babies as "baby killing" may be simple, but it is not "simplistic." There's no nuance here: either an embryo is a living, human entity with a separate life from its parents, or it isn't. If it is a human being, then it needs to be treated with more respect than toenail clippings.
Sir, you were an embarrassment when your father was in office, and you are an embarrassment now that he has left us. Please sit down and stop talking.
Did you notice the dig at W during the funeral. Ron Jr. said that Reagan saw his religion as a responsibility rather than a mandate. My wife took it as a direct dig at W, but I wasn't so sure then. Now, with what you've got here, I think it might just be a bit sharper comment than I'd thought.
I think your wife is correct, Mark -- Ron Reagan would have been happier had his father not been president. He's a mediocrity with a megaphone, at least for another few weeks.
It is ironic that his adopted son Michael Reagan is really his only political heir out of his children.
Thanks, but no thanks Ron Reagan. I don't need a ballet dancer to educate me about stem cell research. I'll rely on by M.S. in Immunology and 9 years in basic science research to inform my opinion. And my opinion is vastly different from yours.
Ron Reagan...let's see....sharper than a serpent's tooth? What a disgrace...........I suppose it's the dems getting even for Zell Miller speaking the the repubs convention...
Go Mike!
While I definitely oppose embryonic stem cell research, I think I need to stress how bad the pro-life movement is going to look if it goes for Ron Reagan's or Nancy Reagan's throat over this issue. Oppose it, yes, but let's not personally attack them.
If we do, we'll just end up looking exactly how they'd like us to look.
Well said, Nathan!
Hmm...well, Nancy Reagan has expressed her disagreement with the Bush Administration without castigating President Bush. Ron Reagan has acted like a boor and an opportunist. I see no reason to refrain from disagreeing with him or pointing out that he's using his father's illness as ammunition for political attacks.