Somebody's running for president

Bill Frist, the man, the renowned heart surgeon who had that memorable exchange on This Week with George Stephonopolous(I have no idea how to spell it and am too lazy to look it up) where Frist sat looking guilty as George in disbelief kept asking over and over, "Do you really believe AIDS can be transmitted through tears and sweat?"

Not the first republican to sell out science for the religious right, but he is a freakin' doctor, after all.

Oh, and let's not forget his diagnosis from video tape when he said it was "obvious" that Terry Schiavo wasn't really permanantly debilitated.

This is just a shameless flip flop. I'm not sure if this tells us that the American Taleban are losing their influence, Frist realizes he can't win their primary votes, or what.

Anyhow.

AP

Breaking with President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Friday he will support legislation to remove some of the administration's limitations on embryonic stem cell research.

Frist, who last month said he did not support expanded federal financing of such research, said his decision was consistent with both his experience as a physician and his opposition to abortion.

"Now is the time to expand the president's policy because it's promising research, but it must be done in a way that is ethically considerate, that respects the dignity of human life," said Frist, who also is a heart and lung transplant surgeon.

The Tennessee Republican, who has been said to be eyeing a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, said only stem cells from embryos that "would otherwise be discarded," not implanted in a woman or frozen indefinitely, should be considered for research.