Some advice....
When you’re fighting two wars and want to seem credible to the public as a war leader.....don’t try to sell yourself as a bleeding heart....
It really hurt Republicans after a while for them to be arguing that we were so full of “love” for Muslims that we were fighting two wars....
Or that men and women needed to fight and kill and be killed or maimed.....but Bush’s heart and Santorum’s heart were bleeding for frzoen embroyos...
I don’t like government subsidizing the creation of an embryo-farming industry, either-—but in fact, it’s hard to sell yourselves as both warriors AND bleeding hearts.
Republicans started sounding phoney and lost the Catholic vote because of it.....I think most of all, it’s Catholics who move between the two parties more than any other people....
I think that the argument against stem-cell funding using embryos should have been the common sense fiscal conservative one-—that we didn’t have the money just to fund just one kind of open-ended research over others at a time when we need to hold spending down because of war and the Boomer’s retirement...
Better to offer rewards for actual cures than fund the research/ Plus, funding such research creates a feedback loop of corruption...
Our money goes to fund the research and they keep telling us “the cure is in the mail” and we have NO PROOF that they are spending the money wisely—but they keep on kicking back part of the money in campaign contributions to keep the gravy train rolling......and the politicians who fund the gravy train stay in office to dole out pork for many years....
Then IF a cure is found, the researches patent it and cash in on it and the taxpayer never gets paid back....in fact, we pay for it AGAIN....when patients start receiving the treatments....
Speaking as a researcher, I have to say that research is extremely unpredictable. One must have a well-developed research plan in order to get any grant money whatsoever, but just because we have a plan doesn't mean that the research will unfold the way we tried to predict. It is impossible to say, for example, that we're setting out on a project to develop a cure for melanoma, and then produce that cure right on schedule.
Also, I don't know of any researchers who kick back the funding in the form of campaign contributions. We are accountable for all of the money we spend, and we must show progress (for basic science, that means publishing papers detailing our research).