Ron Jr., single-issue voter
June 24, 2004
I caught three minutes of Ronald Reagan Jr.’s live interview on CNN before I rushed downstairs to write this. He has been asked by the host if he would be voting against GWB, and yes, he said that he would be voting for the “viable candidate who can unseat George Bush.” (That quote being a very rough estimate.)
Ron Reagan is in no way a political luminary; he is neither pundit nor a well-known speaker for the Reagan Kids until his fathers death. What he did admit to this afternoon is the importance of the single issue that is deciding his vote. It isn’t gay marriage like Andy Sullivan’s, nor is it the War On Terror as so many of us have endorsed George Bush on. Rather, it is the GWB’s treatment of embryonic stem cell research and how he “panders to the most ignorant members of our society for votes.”
I will follow-up the issue of embryonic stem cell reasearch later today; however, this post is basically just a squawkbox type. If Andy Sullivan is willing to “not endorse George Bush” on account of his absolute non-acknowledgement of the existence of homosexual men in our society, at least Ron Reagan, the darling of liberal news networks among the Reagan children has the balls to come forward and actually say which candidate he was for. His upfront, if but cautious admission for John Kerry sure is better than the shorter version of Andy Sullivan: “I was not a single-issue voter before I turned into one.”
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Another thing about Ron Jr–he never agreed with his father’s politics anyway…so the stem cell issue could just be cover for his real reasons