Bachmann: Gardasil causes “mental retardation”

Hot Air ^ | September 13, 2011 | Ed Morrissey

[freespirited]

I’m afraid she lost it for me with that remark. It’s amazing to me that - as stupid as politicians of both sides are on most matters of importance - they are even more vapid when it comes to anything concerning science.

I'm with ya. I've always liked Michele, but lately she's been proving to me that she's a little crazy. Maybe this accounts for her legendary problem keeping staff.

[JFC]

LOL, that was funny. The more they hammer Perry.. the higher his ratings will go. I am almost to the point of getting a Perry 2012 sticker on my car.

[thackney]

I’m disappointed with people that accept without pause required vaccinations for hepatitis but think HPV is a totally different case, as long it tears down the competition to their guy/gal.

[Dogbert41]

I wonder how many dumb statements our Founding Fathers would have made if forced to undergo modern campaigns?

[JFC]

LOL, that was funny. The more they hammer Perry.. the higher his ratings will go. I am almost to the point of getting a Perry 2012 sticker on my car.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Why should I have to opt out of anything?

there is no compelling PUBLIC health interest with this.

PRIVATE maybe, but that's for parents to decide without govt pimping it.

I thought we were for smaller govt here.

[paterfamilias]

“I’m afraid she lost it for me with that remark. It’s amazing to me that - as stupid as politicians of both sides are on most matters of importance - they are even more vapid when it comes to anything concerning science.”

I agree.

[netmilsmom]

Wait a minute! You’re not allowed to make sense on one of these Gardasil threads!!!

[Paleo Conservative]

>>Because you understood wrong. The opt out had to be by filling in a governemnt form, all things correct, filled out every two years, and many private schools refused to accept the opt-out program, placing parents of those schools in a pickle.<<

Plus it puts the parents on a government list that could be abused by Child Protective Services.

[thackney]

Are you in favor of removing hepatitis from the required vaccines?

[LearsFool]

Yea, that is really stupid of the government to think they can MAKE people have immunizations! What’s next, shots for polio, or tetanus, or measles, or...

Exactly! After all, nobody wants their daughter catching an STD from a toilet seat!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ignorance may be part of her supposedly “extreme” position, and maybe the best data shows that the things she’s waging a scare campaign about aren’t anywhere near as common as she makes out — but I can’t say she’s any more ignorant than Perry was when he promulgated that turkey.

[netmilsmom]

>>Plus it puts the parents on a government list that could be abused by Child Protective Services.<<

Exactly.

[Lazlo in PA]

What are your thoughts on the Polio and Small Pox vaccines? Should that have been a Opt In?

[Realman30]

Bachmann came off as whiny, petty and bytchy during her rant. And for whatever reason, she NEVER turned and faced Rick Perry. I got the impression she had her fingers crossed.

This rant hurt her more than it helped hurt.

She, along with Cain, might as well drop out of the race.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I don't accept it, and I have no guy/gal.

Hell, I ain't voting anymore. Anyone who thinks voting will change anything is on drugs.

I'll let all you personality cultists play with your rubbery principles. It sadly confirms all I know about people.

Have fun!

[allmendream]

So when was Bachmann given the vaccine?

[cripplecreek]

I missed a good many of the vaccines that most kids were getting in the 60s and 70s. The reason I missed them is because I had a spleen issue as a child that the docs really couldn’t decipher. As a result they told my parents that they could opt out of most vaccinations and I was given some kind of waiver for school.

48 years later and I’m still pestilence free.

[JFC]

the more I see and hear of Bachmann, the more I dislike her.

[montag813]

>>>"There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine."<<<

Anectodes are never evidence. Groan. Still, this was a clear example of crony capitalism by Perry.