Ron Reagan slams Bush again!!

In this lastest interview with NBC, Ron Reagan slams Bush again, good for him!!

At the burial in California, it was Ron's turn to speak, and the son showed some of the rhetorical gifts of the father.

Ron Reagan: ".. but he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians, wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. ..But he accepted that as a responsibility, not a mandate. And there is a profound difference."

Matthews: "That was in many ways the most remarked upon moment in a very dramatic week."

Reagan: "Well, what I find interesting about it is that everybody assumes that I must be talking about  George W. Bush, which I find fascinating and somewhat telling. If the shoe fits--"

Matthews: "Were you?"

Reagan: "Well, I said many politicians. If he's lumped in that group then fine, fine. That's all right. There's a lot of-- I think there's a lot of false piety floating around Washington."

Matthews: "Ron, do you feel deeply that the President has used religion to make his case for the war with Iraq?"

Reagan: "I think he's used religion to make his case for a lot of things, you know."

Matthews: "Including Iraq?"

Reagan: "Including Iraq."

Matthews: "Many of the people in this administration who are most hawkish claim a Reagan mantle here in fighting this war. Should they?"

Reagan: "No. With all due respect, I don't think they knew my father as well as I did. And another thing I would observe is that my father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody else's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well they're no Ronald Reagan's, that's for sure."

Matthews: "But the case to make, that is made for preemptive, preventive war is you have to be aggressive. You can't simply contain the other side. You can't contain Communism. You must beat it. Ronald Reagan taught us that. You can't contain Saddam Hussein. Ronald Reagan would have knocked him out."

Reagan: "Well, Ronald Reagan didn't knock him out. Ronald Reagan did not send troops into Iraq. He was interested in peace. He hated war."

Nancy Reagan: "Ronnie's long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him, and now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research."

Ron says that stem cell therapy has the potential to treat dozens of diseases, including Alzheimer's.

Reagan: Diabetes, Parkinson's, on and on, this is, you know, this is an issue that is very dear to her heart."

In 2001, President Bush heavily restricted stem cell research on moral grounds, because the extraction of the cells destroys human embryos.

Reagan: "There's no down side to this. There's no real moral problem here. We're talking about cells in a Petri dish, not creatures with brains and spinal cords and fingers and toes."

Matthews: "Will she go head to head with the president?"

Reagan: "If that's what it took, yeah, sure. She's doing what she thinks is right. And she doesn't care who's standing in her way."

Matthews: "Would she be willing to go to the Republican convention in New York this fall and speak for the president if he promises to open up stem cell research, change his policy?"

Reagan: "Oh, I couldn't speculate on that."