Theocrat GOP vs Free-Market Stem Cells

By Cernig

Sully has a sorry tale to tell of theocrats stifling free enterprise and free choice: the 2008 Republican Platform calls for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research, public or private.

Does McCain agree with this? The Christianists just gave the Democrats one hell of a reverse wedge issue. McCain's GOP is now officially more neocon than Bush in foreign policy and more theocon in social policy. It is an intensification - not a rebuke - of the Bush-Cheney model of conservatism.

I'd rather ask "does it matter if McCain agrees with this?" He'll vocally support it whether he really does or not. He's already been warned to stay in line, according to Matthew Benjamim of Bloomberg..

the platform can be a harbinger of new directions the party is likely to go, and conservatives say McCain would do well to pay attention to it.

``When we didn't do what Bob Dole wanted he just went out and said he wasn't going to pay attention to it anyway,'' said Phyllis Schlafly, the founder of the advocacy group Eagle Forum, who has been active in Republican politics since 1952. ``And we know what happened to Bob Dole.''

McCain has been utterly AWOL during the drafting of the GOP platform - I mean he hasn't had a single word to say on it. It differs with his own positions on issues including immigration, stem-cell research and climate change. "McCain aides have said they don't plan to engage a fight over platform positions,"

McCain doesn't care what he'll be called to lead on, he'll just pivot on any previous personal positions and back what his base tells him to. He's a good little marrionette.

"Maverick?" "Personal Courage?" Don't make me laugh.