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This article by Charles Krauthammer really says all that needs saying on the issue of stem cell research, but I’ll say just a couple for good measure. 

As part of a cynical political strategy, Democrats whipped up this issue to a fever pitch.  Remember John Edwards saying Christopher Reeve would walk again if it weren’t for George Bush and his ilk.  They prayed on the fears of good people who had loved ones facing difficult and often fatal diseases.  Nowhere was this effort more aggressive than with parents with children battling juvenile diabetes.  I know first hand of people who stopped supporting Mark Kennedy and other Republicans solely over this issue. 

As Krauthammer put it:

“The verdict is clear.  Rarely has a president - so villifed for a moral stance - been so thoroughly vindicated. 

“Why? Precisely because he took a moral stance. Precisely because, to borrow Thomson’s phrase, Bush was made “a little bit uncomfortable” by the implications of embryonic experimentation. Precisely because he therefore decided that some moral line had to be drawn.”

Appropriately, on this matter, I will give Krauthammer the last word.  Perhaps soon the round of stories will begin “Bush vindicated on Iraq Surge.”

Cross-posted at TvM