McCain Runs Pro-Stem Cell Ad, While Campaign Website Criticizes Research Involving ‘Human Embryos’
McCain Runs Pro-Stem Cell Ad, While Campaign Website Criticizes Research Involving ‘Human Embryos’
Conservatives have long disguised their disdain for embryonic stem cell research, the most promising type of stem cell research, by saying they support the practice only in the form of “adult stem cell research.” “Say, yes!,” the Family Research Council tells conservatives to say when asked if they support stem cell research.
In a new radio ad out today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) dubs himself and Gov. Sarah Palin as the “original mavericks, stating that a McCain-Palin administration would enthusiastically support stem cell research:
They’re the original mavericks. Leaders. Reformers. Fighting for real change. … John McCain will lead his Congressional allies to improve America’s health. … Stem cell research to help free families from the fear and devastation of illness. … Change is coming. McCain-Palin and Congressional allies,
Listen here:
The ad, however, makes no mention at all of “embryonic” research. In 2007, McCain specifically praised this practice, stating, “embryonic stem cell research…holds the best opportunity to relieve the pain and suffering of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, all these terrible debilitating diseases.”
On his website, however, McCain says he will “strongly support” scientific studies that do “not involve the use of human embryos“:
As president, John McCain will strongly support funding for promising research programs, including amniotic fluid and adult stem cell research and other types of scientific study that do not involve the use of human embryos.
Where federal funds are used for stem cell research, Senator McCain believes clear lines should be drawn that reflect a refusal to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles for the sake of scientific progress, and that any such research should be subject to strict federal guidelines.
In a 2006 gubernatorial debate, Gov. Palin said, “no, stem-cell research would ultimately end in destruction of life. I couldn’t support (it).’” The 2008 GOP platform included language calling for a ban on “all embryonic stem-cell research, public or private.” It seems that the “original mavericks” are using a tried right-wing tactic of disguising their opposition to embryonic research with rhetorical tricks.
"We've always been a little concerned that Senator McCain may have voted for this, but would he be there in the long term when he is the president of the United States versus just a senator?" said Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., who supports McCain but advocates the research. [...] Those who oppose the research are also uncertain. "He seems to be moving away from that position, but we currently have not heard he's changed that position," said Colleen Parro, executive director of the Republican National Coalition for Life.
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Big Liar John and Porkbarrel Palin doing what they do best: lie and deceive.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:05 amIn running the sleaziest campaign since South Carolina in 2000 and standing by completely debunked lies on national television, it’s clear that John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:21 amhttp://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/ THIS AD IS GREAT!!! PASS IT AROUND…. Calls McCain outright on his lies!!! Let the world know….
September 13th, 2008 at 9:24 amMcCain/Palin are the science candidates all of a sudden? I guess you can get away with that when the people who would vote for you are completely ignorant. Anyway they’re just feeding their base excuses to explain why they couldn’t vote for the scary black man. The party knows it, we know it. Only the base is stupid enough to think we’ll believe it.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:25 amWhen you press these people on the issue, and you mention that there are fertilized eggs that get destroyed anyway, and why not use those for research, they get flustered, because they know that their argument has no rational basis. It’s purely driven by their religious ideology. In short, they want to impose their religious values on the rest of us. I just wish they would admit it.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:25 amCampaign McCain has hit upon a schizophrenic strategy–be for and against everything and sell each voting community what it wants to hear. It’s called “MENDACITY!”
September 13th, 2008 at 9:26 amMaybe these two favor the use of porcine stem cells. The pair of pigs could donate their chudzpah stem cells, but stay away from their ethical or intellectual brain cells. They’re defective.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:32 amStem cell research to help people with health insurance. Under McCain that’s the fewer, the wealthier, the insured…
Hey John McCon, just say you pretend to help people. In reality, citizens are on their own. Pray for health or make sure a relative goes into medicine.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:39 amIf these two candidates are not intelligent enough to run for their offices how can we expect them to be intelligent enough to lead the country. Some a$$wipe on Bill Maher last night was all threatening about how we insult Palin at our own peril. These Republicons have been smearing their way into office for 40 years and now they’re threatening us that if we don’t play nice we’ll lose. It’s too late for nice. If we’re going to go down it might as well be in a blaze of glory. Obama needs to have surrogates out there kicking butt and taking names. Janine Garofolo was the only one really calling this guy a liar. She’s the woman who should be taking on Palin.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:44 amShayne Says:
Only the base is stupid enough to think we’ll believe it.
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Funny, how the GOOPers like to refer to their bed-rock crazy supporters as “the base”, seein’ as that’s also a literal translation of the name al-Q’aida…
Jes’ pointin’ it out…
September 13th, 2008 at 9:45 amThey use “the base” like al-Q-aida and “the homeland” like Hitler. More than just coincidence I think.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:46 amShayne Says:
They use “the base” like al-Q-aida and “the homeland” like Hitler. More than just coincidence I think.
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Yes… worth repeating, over and over again…
They use “the base” like al-Q-aida and “the homeland” like Hitler. More than just coincidence I think.
They use “the base” like al-Q-aida and “the homeland” like Hitler. More than just coincidence I think.
This is EXACTLY what we’re dealing w/… people so bed-rock crazy/stupid they’ve convinced themselves the earth is only 6,000 years old. We’re talking about a level of self-delusion here that’s truly SCARY.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:52 amMaverick says:”We know we are agaisnt Stem cell research,but if an ad will bring us vote…we’ll be for it, my dear friends”.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:57 amsatirev Says:
What’s more, you can bet dollars to donuts that if Barack Obama was lying and they had prima facie evidence of him lying, it would be plastered in our faces.
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The don’t need prima facie evidence, satirev… they just make shi’ite up.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:12 amThe Religious Right wants to endorse political candidates from the pulpit. They call their movement “Pulpit Freedom”. What a crock!
September 13th, 2008 at 10:21 amstateofthedivision Says:
The Religious Right wants to endorse political candidates from the pulpit.
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… the Religious Right = the Willfully Ignorant…
September 13th, 2008 at 10:32 amThe Right only cares about potential human life, and not actual, viable human life.
70% of all conceptions end in spontaneous NATURAL abortion. So what if humans instigate another 2% more? Is there really that much of a difference between 70% and 72%?
There is no reason when it comes to Conservative viewpoints. It’s all about a nearly psychotic need to BELIEVE, no matter how much they have to reject reality, lie, cheat and steal. Conservatism aught to be listed as a mental disease.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:36 amunbelievable Says:
Conservatism aught to be listed as a mental disease.
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Shhhhhhhh… don’t let Michael Savage-Weiner hear you say that. He’ll get vewwy vewwy upset and mebbe even sue you for copyright infringement.
On the other hand, yeeeeaaaah… what IS it about these bleedin’ *ssclowns?
It’s the Straussian Big Lie… it’s okay, because the ends justifies the means, huh?
September 13th, 2008 at 10:43 am22. katy Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
W H Y ?
September 13th, 2008 at 10:44 amsatirev Says: What is the responsibility of our media if not to bring “truth” to the american people? Is it merely a diversionary “sideshow” designed to defraud the american electorate? Since when does prima facie evidence (videotaped statements) NOT bring about the “outing” of an individual who is lying in the face of the american public? Is it not the responsibility of our media to bring these lies to the microscope of justice?
And then they wonder why we come here instead…
The MSM, all owned by the same 4 corporations, has become a joke. They edit interviews and speeches to make the Republican candidates look better than the whole interview or speech uncovered them to be, while taking the Democratic candidates’ words out of context for the sake of making them look inept.
If it weren’t for C-SPAN, Jon Stewart, PBS, and apparently Joy Behar, there’d be nothing but noise coming from the MSM talking Heads on television.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:44 amkaty:
September 13th, 2008 at 10:48 amDid you say the word which must not be spoken?
stateofthedivision Says: The Religious Right wants to endorse political candidates from the pulpit. They call their movement “Pulpit Freedom”. What a crock!
Time to pull their tax-exempt status. Watch how fast they shut the hell up…
Though, I’m not sure if these pulpit pundits really make all that much difference, since the people who would take political advice from preachers were probably going to vote for the Fascist candidate anyway, since they already take advice on how to ‘think’ from Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
In 2004, when the Georgia Archbishop (or whomever) told Georgia Catholics that vioting for John Kerry was a sin, since he was pro-choice, I had several friends who stopped going to church for over a year, and voted for Kerry anyway. So, this sort of manipulation by religious figures doesn’t work on liberal, “cafeteria” religious people in the same way.
The religious right aren’t people who think for themselves, but are simply obedient sheep who need to be commanded by father figures. But I think we should still kill their tax-exempt status…
September 13th, 2008 at 10:53 amThe Republic of Stupidity Says: It’s the Straussian Big Lie… it’s okay, because the ends justifies the means, huh?
I really think it’s about ego and low self-esteem. That they will do anything to win because their very sense of self comes from being either a ‘winner’ or a ‘loser’ (you know they only see life in absolutistic terms of all or nothing). They simply can’t handle the idea of being a ‘loser’.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:56 amwhich word is that, dbadass?
September 13th, 2008 at 10:57 amthis is the MONA CHAREN piece i copied from:
What Obama Could Destroy
i have no idea why it wouldn’t post…
she is in my local daily paper at least weekly.
and she speaks for many, if not most, of the people here’bouts…
idiocy.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:00 amanything which involves a n a l. Mostly it is when you follow it with ysis. It used to piss me off but now it is just amusing. When it happens to me I usually just say silly shit like dicktard asswipe ballsack to show how stupid it is.
twat snatch assmunch!!!!
September 13th, 2008 at 11:01 ami agree with un – it does seem like a mental disease…
If it weren’t for C-SPAN, Jon Stewart, PBS, and apparently Joy Behar -un
:-)
back when randi rhodes quit AirAmericaRadio, they had to fill her time slot with guest hosts… it was pretty horrible radio (and don’t tell anyone but rosanne barr was the worst – ONLY because she passed on some b.s. conspiracy stories that i just KNOW randi would’ve shite if she heard [randi being meticulous about sourcing])…
anyway, the best was joy behar, in my opinion… she was funny and very inquisitive… she’d admit when she didn’t know or understand a topic, and was genuinely appreciative of learning new information…
maybe that was the final awakening for her… having never watched the view, that was my first exposure to her, so i may be off, but i think she learned alot those days with AAR…
September 13th, 2008 at 11:13 amCheck out the Rude pundit for things to say when the right wing starts stammering about Palin’s interview.
http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/
September 13th, 2008 at 11:21 amkaty Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
lol, dbadass…
omg – it DOES have that word… i’ll try this:
2 TIMES… i give up.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:22 amkrazny – my favorite:
8. “Hey, you know who else thinks war is a task from God? C’mon, say it…”
best for last…
but that list could be expanded easily.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:27 amIt is especially rhetorical tricks because he starts out the ad saying that he and Sarah are the original “mavericks”. That will lead the listener to believe that he is bucking the policies of his party and thus believe he is supporting embryonic stem cell research.
That is all McBush and Ms. Sarah are, rhetoric and smoke and mirrors. Hopefully the low-information voters will catch on before it is too late.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:40 ampoliticjock Says:
In running the sleaziest campaign since South Carolina in 2000 and standing by completely debunked lies on national television, it’s clear that John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election.
And the sad thing, McCain just hired the guy who ran that sleazy push poll in South Carolina to work on his campaign. George McCain has no honor. He is not “country first”, he is “McCain first”.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:43 amdesertflower1 Says:
http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/ THIS AD IS GREAT!!! PASS IT AROUND…. Calls McCain outright on his lies!!! Let the world know….
Except that the ad calls the lies “distortions”. I am waiting for an ad that shows McBush telling a lie and then a stamp over the text in a read circle with a cross through it and the word LIE in the middle.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:45 amBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
I am waiting for an ad that shows McBush telling a lie and then a stamp over the text in a read circle with a cross through it and the word LIE in the middle.
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“My name is John McCailin and I approve of this whoppin’, honkin’ big F-in’ lie.”
September 13th, 2008 at 1:32 pmHere’s the newest McCain/Failin’ Palin political ad –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3hHQvkUhJo
Looks like they’re going after the Crusader Rabbit and Ragland T. Tiger fans.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:02 pmMcSame is worse than Bush…he will say anything and do anything to get elected. He is a real political whore.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:04 pmMcCain has said we should “refus(e) to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles” for the sake of otherwise worthy goals. Let’s apply this same principle to another emotionally charged issue, namely torture. Oops, he would gladly “sacrifice moral values and ethical principles” in that case as he has also done in an effort to get elected at all costs. The problem with the dogma of McCain is that you will always get caught up in conflict and ruin your integrity. Not surprisingly, that has already happened to McSame.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:58 pmpoliticjock Says:
In running the sleaziest campaign since South Carolina in 2000 and standing by completely debunked lies on national television, it’s clear that John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election.
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Lose WHAT integrity?
September 14th, 2008 at 2:53 amhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/14/doctors-call-on-mccain-to_n_126285.html PLEASE visit this site and watch video…regarding having McCain’s health records released…ALL of them!
September 14th, 2008 at 3:39 pmhttp://bravenewfilms.org/ SIGN THE PETITION!! THANKS!
September 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pmHis mind is shot…otherwise, he would’ve remembered what happened to him in SC…sleezy campaign cost him then..and now the shoe is on the other foot, and it’s ok. He HAS no integrity, no honor..and he sold his soul to the devil.I detest him..
September 14th, 2008 at 3:47 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins…You’re right…absolutely!
September 14th, 2008 at 3:50 pm