Dems dirty trix

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An interesting read from that subscription Red Country shared with us..

 

Talks about the how the Democrats are gravy training the Stem Cell platform, when in reality the Repubs arent really "banning" anything.. albeit they arent necessarily expediting research either. Nonetheless, I imagine the Dems will be held to the fire to get things moving a little faster on this topic should Kerry be elected.. we can only hope.

 

DEMOCRATIC DIRTY TRICKS

 

In last week’s WWNK, we dissected the person of Karl Rove, the President’s most influential advisor, for his sneaky campaign practices. But are the Democrats really all that different?

 

One of the flogged-to-death Democratic campaign horses is stem cell research—a topic that, according to the latest Zogby poll, could endear swing voters enough to support Kerry’s cause. If Kerry were to announce a major initiative in stem cell research to cure diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes and spinal injuries, states an article in American Demographics, he would gain 11% of Bush voters. Another 9% of Bush voters would switch to a third party, not vote, or be undecided.

 

Bob Beckel, former political strategist for the Dems, calls stem cell research the “’sleeper issue’ of this campaign.” Correspondingly, Kerry doesn’t miss an opportunity to bring it up. MSN’s Slate magazine reported that stem cells “were mentioned 20 times at the Democratic National Convention, more than unemployment and abortion combined.”

 

“Three years ago, the President enacted a far-reaching ban on stem cell research,” said Kerry in a radio address on August 7, promising twice that, if elected U.S. President, he’d “lift the ban.”

 

Problem is, there is no such ban.

 

All George W. Bush did was restrict federal funding to research on embryos created before August 2001; but he didn’t ban stem-cell research itself. In fact, Bush is the first president ever to give federal funds to embryonic stem cell research. Plus, the private sector, state and local governments are still free to pursue this potentially ground-breaking science as they wish.

 

Another half-truth the Democrats fervently promote is that stem cell research is a sure-fire way to help cure Alzheimer’s Disease. So far, that hasn’t been scientifically proven. A June article in the Washington Post stated that, “of all the diseases that may someday be cured by embryonic stem cell treatments, Alzheimer’s is among the least likely to benefit.” Even though scientists agree that stem cell research will be somewhat beneficial to understanding Alzheimer’s better, a “cure” is by no means waiting on the sidelines.

 

But the “big A” is another catchword that could draw voters on Kerry’s side. A poll by “Results for America”, a group that endorses stem cell research, showed that only 17% of Americans have—or come in contact with through family, friends, etc.—the diseases that are most susceptible to stem cell therapy. With Alzheimer’s in the mix, that number shoots up to 28%. And 72% of voters say they would support stem cell research if experts thought it would cure Alzheimer’s.

 

“People need a fairy tale,” Ronald McKay, a stem cell researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, told the Washington Post. “Maybe that’s unfair, but they need a story line that’s relatively simple to understand.” And for all those people, John Kerry makes it easy to believe.

 

Gilding the lily on stem cell research isn’t the only example of Democratic dirty tricks. For example. one of the battlegrounds between the GOP and Democrats is offbeat candidate Ralph Nader, the man that only a small, but potentially pivotal, block of voters take seriously. While Republicans busily gathered signatures for Nader to get on the ballots, hoping to take away votes from Kerry, the left allegedly kept busy, too.

 

According to the website www.votenader.org, the law firm Smith, Diamond, and Olney that works for the Democrats “threatened circulators of Nader petitions [in Oregon] saying they were investigating ‘whether fraudulent signature-gathering techniques were used… saying their involvement ‘may result in a conviction of a felony with a fine of up to $100,000 or prison for up to five years.’”

 

The pro-Nader team also complained that Democrats were sabotaging one of his recent nominating conventions, “swelling the number of attendees and then refusing to sign ballot petitions.” Since the doors were closed by the government after over 1,000 attendees had been let in, the “intruders” prevented others from entering and Nader wound up with less than the 1,000 signatures he needed.

 

So much for moral superiority.

 

The bottom line, as we see it: there is a reason that there are only two major political parties… both know the game inside out, and will do whatever it takes to gain control, and keep it. Politics is not a game for the weak of heart.