Stem Cell Research: Jim Doyle STILL Lying

It's been a while since Governor Jim Doyle has spent time misrepresenting Mark Green's stance on stem cell research.

I guess Doyle has been too busy focusing on trying to steal every penny from Green's campaign coffers to be bothered with lying about an actual issue.

It turns out that Doyle hasn't given up his campaign strategy of lying about Green and stem cell research.

At a Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce dinner last night, both Green and Doyle addressed the crowd of 1,200. They both commented on stem cell research. Doyle, of course, lied.

From WisPolitics:

Each candidate tried to stake out a claim to promoting stem cell research. Green talked about his plan to direct $25 million in state funding to WiCell to “advance promising stem cell research, research that would create new embryonic stem cell lines without destroying living human embryos, obviously that’s something that we all support.”

Funding promising research to find disease treatments and cures while respecting human life and not experimenting on it as if it were an expendable, plentiful raw material -- That is a plan that all Wisconsinites can support.

Doyle and the Culture of Death crowd can't be so demented that the only research they would support would be that which demands killing human embryos, right?

Doyle talked about stem cell research from a personal perspective, referencing his mother’s 30-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Ruth Bachhuber Doyle died in May at the age of 89.

“To me it is unthinkable that we would stop the research that has the potential of having other people not have to suffer what my mother suffered,” he said.

MARK GREEN DOESN'T WANT TO STOP STEM CELL RESEARCH.

Doyle said in Congress, Green has voted against federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. He said it is the greatest difference between himself and his opponent, adding that he has launched a $750 million public and private investment strategy to fund biotechnology and stem cell research.

I would argue that Green's vote against federal tax dollars being used to kill human life is not the "greatest difference" between the two candidates.

It's hard to pin down the greatest difference, because there are so many.

Doyle is pro-abortion, pro-tax, pro-special interests, pro-illegal immigrant, anti-school choice, anti-business, and utterly bankrupt ethically.

The fact that Green is morally grounded and has principles that guide him stands in dramatic contrast to the hopelessly corrupt Doyle.

In that sense, perhaps their positions on stem cell research do reveal the greatest difference between them -- character.

“As long as I’m governor of Wisconsin, embryonic research is going to go on in this state,” Doyle said.

Green would say the exact same thing, but with an important caveat.

Doyle promotes the destruction of human life.

With Mark Green as governor, embryonic research will go forward in Wisconsin -- the kind that creates "new embryonic stem cell lines without destroying living human embryos."