Bill Frist, the New Josef Mengele

The piranhas are coming out for Bill Frist after he broke with President Bush last week, advocating stem cell research, and they're led by Focus on the Family's James Dobson (via Media Matters):

DOBSON: You know, the thing that means so much to me here on this this issue [embryonic stem cell research] is that people talk about the potential for good that can come from destroying these little embryos and how we might be able to solve the problem of juvenile diabetes. There's no indication yet that they're gonna do that, but people say that, or spinal cord injuries or such things. But I have to ask this question: In World War II, the Nazis experimented on human beings in horrible ways in the concentration camps, and I imagine, if you wanted to take the time to read about it, there would have been some discoveries there that benefited mankind. You know, if you take a utilitarian approach, that if something results in good, then it is good. But that's obviously not true. We condemn what the Nazis did because there are some things that we always could do but we haven't done, because science always has to be guided by ethics and by morality. And you remove ethics and morality, and you get what happened in Nazi Germany. That's why to Senator [Senate Majority Leader Bill] Frist [R-TN] and the others who are saying, "Look what may be accomplished." Yeah, but there's another issue, there's a higher order of ethics here.

I caught a bit on today's NPR Day to Day where William Saletan made the case for Frist really being pro-choice, and that his actions over the last six months have been pandering to the Right while he finally had to listen to his heart over stem cell research (and thusly is not pandering to the political centrists). While it's true you can't pander to two different sides of a political equation, I have a feeling that gormless Bill Frist could pull it off