So Katie Couric interviewed Reagan's liberal, hippy daughter and finds that she opposes President Bush's "ban" on embryonic stem cell research. Excerpt:

In an emotional TV interview airing tonight, Ronald Reagan's daughter says President Bush's re-election is "tragic" because it could curtail badly needed embryonic stem-cell research.

Four years of delay in embryonic stem-cell research could be potentially devastating to millions of suffering Americans, former First Daughter Patti Davis tells Katie Couric on NBC's "Dateline."

I'm still amazed that Bush's reversal of the Clinton ban on stem cell research, albeit in a limited fashion, is still referred to as a "ban on research". Apparently, allowing something to happen is now referred to as a ban when a Republican is in office. And by the way, private money has never been banned from this type of research, only federal monies. Amazingly, the vast majority of investors are sinking their hard-earned capital into adult stem cell research. I guess they're just stupid. Right? Anyway, here's more:

In the interview to plug her memoir "The Long Goodbye," Davis said she had chronicled her father's years-long struggle with Alzheimer's and agreed with former First Lady Nancy Reagan that embryonic stem-cell research could have saved him.

I will never say anything bad about Nancy because she's suffered a loss that I can't bring myself to imagine. Her daughter, though, pisses me off because even the most ardent proponents of embryonic stem cell research agree that Alzheimer's isn't likely to be treatable with stem cells. In fairness to Patti, the research is ongoing.

One final intemperate question: do you think that anyone would give a crap about what Patti Davis thinks if her father wasn't Ronald Reagan? Just curious.

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