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George W. Bush has made plenty of mistakes. Probably the biggest one was thinking that just because he could get along with Democrats in Texas, he could get along with Democrats in Congress. Silly man! Democrats in Texas care about governing Texas. Democrats in Congress care only about gaining political advantage. Slow learner, there, Mr. President!

But part of Bush’s legacy will be this: He learns from his mistakes, but he doesn’t back down when he believes he’s right.

The obvious example is Iraq, and now, when the Democrats are panicking for fear we might be victorious in that campaign, it’s easy to forget how much guts it took for the President not to accede to the Democrats’ demands to withdraw from Iraq, the way his father bowed to their demand that he break his promise and raise taxes.

But we’ve had another example recently: the breakthrough in stem cell technology that allows us to have all the stem cells we need, taken from people’s own bodies so there’ll be no rejection problem — without having to use any dead embryos.

How many years now has Bush been beaten up by so-called “scientists” because he is so heartless and unfeeling and religious that he forces the rest of us to do without vital research just because Christians get all sentimental about embryos.

The truth was never what they claimed. Bush never banned stem cell research. In fact, he was the first president to allow federal funding of stem cell research. Clinton didn’t do it. Nobody had done it. Bush did it.

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