I saw somewhere that Rush and Ann were up in arms for being demonized over speaking up against Michael J. Fox's commercial, because (according to them) part of the liberal strategy is to use people with disabilities to advance the liberal agenda so everyone will feel sorry for them and cave in.

I don't know if that's part of the liberal agenda or not, and admittedly I only heard this in sound bites, but I didn't hear Rush or Ann saying anything about the pros and cons of stem cell research -- they only bashed Michael J. Fox and "the liberals." Maybe if they focused their arguments more on the message and not the messengers, they might make more progress with converting people. (But then they wouldn't get as much publicity, so that's probably not in their game plan.) As it is, they're just pointing at Fox's illness and whining, "that's not fair!" That kind of logic doesn't really inspire me to listen to them further on the subject.

Thomas Krehbiel writes The Krehbiel Strikes Back, a moderate commentary on news, media, politics, and culture. — Virginians, Vote No.