In the last two elections, liberals tried to convince you that conservative Republicans are pro-disease.

You were told that embryonic stem cell research holds the only hope for curing Parkinson’s and other diseases, but the evil Republicans are standing in the way.

Millions of dollars were spent smearing conservatives who oppose research on embryos for one reason only, and that is: it requires the destruction of life. But conservatives’ Constitutionally based commitment to protect life :”LIFE, Liberty, pursuit of happiness” -infuriates the left.

They accuse conservatives of imposing their small-minded religious views on the nation.

I mean, the liberals even used a stricken Hollywood actor to target their political enemies. John Edwards promised that with John Kerry in the White House, Christopher Reeve would walk again.

So with so much invested in embryonic stem cells, why is it absent from this year’s debate?

Well, there’s an answer: science.

Everything liberals told you about embryonic stem cell research... has been disproved by scientific developments.

Why, last week, researchers reported another step: Reprogrammed skin cells have eased the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in laboratory experiments.

Now, of course, there will be no apologies extended to those whose reputations were smeared and whose compassion was called into question. Nor will there be any acknowledgment that the effort to politicize the very curing of disease was built entirely on a house of lies, and spread by members of an unprincipled party {Democrat} who will stop at absolutely nothing — including lying to citizens — to win elective office, and POWER.

At what depths, will we see them reach this year? — Still, not shocking to myself.

A few days ago, we had the news, and I’m sure you heard it, too, that Condoleezza Rice was actively pursuing the vice presidency with Senator McCain.

He didn’t know anything about it. Elisabeth Bumiller in the New York Times says, “Is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice campaigning to be John McCain’s running mate? If so, Mr. McCain… said on Sunday that he had not noticed. ‘I missed those signals,’ Mr. McCain told reporters…”

Condoleezza Rice says, “I don’t know what this is about. I don’t want to be anybody’s vice president.” She’s always said that.

Do you know what I smell here? I smell the Obama campaign. I smell the Obama campaign passing a rumor of Condi being the GOP VP to certain media to scare the Democrat voters and the superdelegates that if they don’t put Obama on the ticket, the Republicans will get to have the first black person on the presidential ticket.

That’s what I suspect, because I’ve never heard her say she’s interested. In fact, I’ve heard her say the opposite, that she is not interested in this. But then after I thought about it…

Maybe it was the Clinton camp that let it out to scare the superdelegates and primary voters that the Republicans could have the only woman on the ballot this fall. Then I decided that either case is plausible, and then I came to the conclusion that nobody on the Republican side leaked it.

It had to have come from someplace on the Democrat side.

On the Today Show, cohost Meredith Vieira talked to Obama, and she asked, “What’s the key question, Senator Obama, you want answered today? Number one question you’re going to ask General Petraeus.”

OBAMA: Well, I think the most important issue is still the one that was asked in September, which is: How has this war made us safer, and at what point do we know that there’s success so we can start bringing our troops home?

Well, that’s a brilliant question.

This lame question: “How has this war made us safer?” I don’t know that that even comes under General Petraeus’ purview.

Senator Obama, let me take a stab at it.

Have we been attacked since 9/11 on this country, Sir? Had we not responded, can you guarantee us that the same zero attacks would have occurred since 9/11 of 2001?

Meredith Vieira then said, “So how can you guarantee that you can pull out those troops in just 16 months?”

OBAMA: We are going to set a timetable, and we will have a prudent pace of withdrawal, one to two brigades per month. At that pace we can have combat troops out within approximately 16 months. That will be about two years from now, Meredith, which means that this war will have lasted seven years.

Irresponsible answer.

It’s a totally irresponsible answer, because he doesn’t know what he’s going to face in January of next year. He has no idea what the situation on the ground is going to be and he has no idea what his commanders are going to tell him.

Meredith Vieira said to him, “Frank Rich wrote, ‘Really, Barack Obama and Hillary should be ashamed of themselves for libeling McCain. In fact, Senator McCain never said he wanted 100 more years of war. He just felt American troops should be a long-term presence the way they are in Japan and South Korea.’ So Senator Obama, are you willing to admit that you have distorted his statements?”

OBAMA: That’s just not accurate, Meredith. We can pull up the quotes on YouTube. What John McCain was saying was that he is happy to have a potential long-term occupation in Iraq. “Happy” may be overstating it. He is willing to have a long-term operation in Iraq, as long as a hundred years. In fact, he said 10,000 years. However long it took. That was his argument.

You know, we hear talk about how smart Obama is and so forth. He’s very, very dumb the way he’s dealing with this, ’cause there’s nobody — nobody — who thinks McCain said that he wants to stay in declared hostilities, with war going on, for a hundred years. He did not say that.

Hillary Clinton, announced that she wants a poverty czar.

What does that mean?

We need a poverty czar. It means that she and those like her are admitting defeat in the war on poverty, are they not? They are admitting the failure of the welfare state. They are admitting in their own programs haven’t worked, if we need a poverty czar.

You gotta know how to translate this stuff.

Most people would hear Mrs. Clinton say, “We need a poverty czar,” and go, “That’s right! That’s right. So many people are losing ground in this country, there’s abject poverty everywhere. People are starving. They can’t afford gasoline or food in the grocery store. We need somebody on the case.”

Well, we’ve had a war on poverty since when? 1964. Guess it’s not working. Maybe we should surrender! Maybe we should pull out of the war on poverty. You talk about a bottomless pit?

Maybe the war on poverty ought to be given some benchmarks to meet and be able to survive on its own.

hearings — Day 1

I watched Carl Levin give his speech, his opening statement, he’s talking to General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, and he’s going on and on and on about how the Maliki government in Iraq has not met its benchmarks and has not found a way to pay its own way on anything, and they better do that or we’re going to get outta there, they’re free to do what they had until November, and after that all bets are off, is what the Democrats are saying.

I find this fascinating. Here is a liberal Democrat senator from Michigan, Carl Levin, telling another nation’s government, fess up, shape up, make sure that you can pay your own way and meet the benchmarks that we have given for you. In other words, they’re telling the Iraqi government to become self-sufficient.

Wouldn’t it be great if liberal Democrats told their own voters the same thing? In this country, liberal Democrats look at their own voters, and they see permanent dependents, and they smile. They do everything they can to generate permanent dependents: under-educating kids in school, ongoing entitlement programs, advertising for peopling to get on the food stamp program, and yet, when it comes to the Iraqi government, why, they sound very conservative. Ya’ll need to shape up, ya’ll need to become self-sufficient, ya’ll need to be able to pay your own way, ya’ll need to meet the benchmarks that we are saying.

By the way, Carl Levin, a suggestion. If you’re going to be out there demanding that the Iraqi government meet benchmarks and come up with mechanisms whereby they can pay their own way and don’t need any aid from us, Senator Levin, you are from Michigan. You know, it might be helpful, if you would enforce and demand benchmarks on your state and the Democrat governor and the legislature there to fix the mess that is Michigan. You’re demanding all these things from the government of Iraq while at the same time not demanding anything like that from your own constituents, your own voters, or your own governments.

While Carl Levin can sit there and lecture the Iraqi government on meeting benchmarks and learn to pay its own way, become self-sufficient, he would nowhere near say that to Jennifer Granholm, the governor of his own state nor of Democrat voters and constituents all over the country.