The Michael J Fox Campaign Ads I believe are a disgrace and are intended to decieve the greater voting public purely for political reasons. Political pandering pure and simple.

As Ann Coulter explained on our show when we discussed her best selling book “Godless:The Church of Liberalsim:”

“…(T)he Democrats hit on an ingenious strategy: They would choose only messengers whom we’re not allowed to reply to. That’s why Democratic spokesmen these days are sobbing, hysterical women. You can’t respond to them because that would be questioning the authenticity of their suffering.”

She refers to this in her book as the “doctrine of infalliability.”

Our friends at Right Wing News Blog has this to say:

…the amount of misinformation on embryonic stem cells out there is absolutely staggering. Basically, you have desperate people like Fox and Nancy Reagan out there pushing embryonic stem cells because they’ve been told that it may be a miracle cure for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. But, the hard, cold reality is that embryonic stem cells have never cured anything in a human and it’s entirely possible that they never will. In fact, the reason why embryonic stem cells need federal funding in the first place is because private industry doesn’t think ESC’s are worth sinking money into. So, we’re really getting to the point where the push for embryonic stem cells is not just wasted money, it’s turning into a cruel method of offering false hope to people like Michael J. Fox for political purposes.

Last but not least, the one thing I dislike the most about this sort of commercial is that there is a very obvious response to it: you go get someone else with Parkinson’s and you put them on TV talking about how great Jim Talent or Michael Steele is and why embryonic stem cell research is a farce. Is that what politics should really be all about? Dueling sick people trying to draw in “pity votes?” Apparently, a lot of Democrats, including Claire McCaskill and Ben Cardin think so — and that’s too bad.

Can’t help but thinking back to the “breck girl” John Edwards who proclaimed that “when John Kerry is elected president people are going to get up and walk out of their wheel chairs.” Nothing is out of bounds for these people.