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Ted Cruz calls vaccine issue "largely silliness stirred up by the media"
CBS News ^
| 02/03/2015
| ByELLEN UCHIMIYA
Posted on 02/03/2015 12:14:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Response is certainly more “presidential” than Rand’s.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:17:07 PM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: SeekAndFind
It is an intentionally refocusing of the issue away from the cause - namely thousands of illegals bringing all kinds of diseases with them due to Obama’s open boarders.
To: SeekAndFind
"Ted Cruz calls issues reported in the media "largely silliness stirred up by the media"
Yep, and clarified in broader terms.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:19:35 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: SeekAndFind
Yes, the media is trolling to GOP contenders. As the media has done in past elections.
“Ask them about evolution!”
“Ask them about marriage!”
How about discussing the border? ISIS? The debt?
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:20:44 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: cuban leaf
The response is a response worthy of a discussion with Paul. Issues of public health vs the citizen's right to decide should be decided on the state level. They both make valid points.
The Vaccine Nazis who want to make it a national issue, a media issue, or an issue decided by pharmaceutical-big medicine interests amount to bullying and intimidation.
Cruz and Paul be seem to allow for let's have a discussion, on a statewide and local level.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:21:46 PM PST
by
grania
To: SeekAndFind
Imagine the glee had Cruz said that “Obama’s call for parents to not vaccinate their children is just another media hoax.”
Half the MSM would declare that because Obama said so, parents should not vaccinate their children. And the other half would still demand that the government force all children to be vaccinated.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:26:54 PM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: SeekAndFind
—thankfully, I was raised by parents who knew what it was like in the days before vaccination and immunization—
—we all got our shots, were extremely thankful when the polio vaccine came along (one of my boyhood contemporaries died of it)-—and the Jehovah’s Witnesses parents didn't have to have their kids take the shots if they so chose-—
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:32:07 PM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: SeekAndFind
The reason those in power support mandatory national vaccination is the further centralization of power.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:34:23 PM PST
by
grumpygresh
(Democrats & GOPe delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
To: grania
I agree. It’s just that Cruz made the point a lot better.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:34:57 PM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: SeekAndFind
“and there’s widespread agreement: of course they should.”
I guess being a lawyer-turned-politician automatically makes you a scientist. There’s an outbreak of them. There should be a vaccination against that.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:34:58 PM PST
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: grania
Cruz’s response was very shrewd and measured.
And the media thinks he is a loose cannon, gimme a break.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:35:14 PM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: blackdog
He ought to go a step further and impugn their motives.
“Yeah, they did the same thing with some out of the blue birth control question that they morphed into the bogus ‘war on women’ - I’m putting the press on notice, you’ll not get away with that foolishness this time.”
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:37:39 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MrB
that would just be begging them to
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:38:32 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: rellimpank
You realize the polio vaccine that saved so many lives would not be allowed to be given today because there was a slight chance that those receiving the vaccine would die?
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:39:05 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: SeekAndFind
Ted Cruz calls vaccine issue "largely silliness stirred up by the media"
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner folks!
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:41:20 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SeekAndFind
“Other potential 2016 presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Dr. Ben Carson also added their voices to the debate over vaccinations. Clinton Tweeted Monday evening, “The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Let’s protect all our kids. #GrandmothersKnowBest”
So they plant a story in the media, and Hillary jumps on it. Cruz responded correctly.
“I must admit, against my better judgement; I like this duke.”
To: SeekAndFind; stephenjohnbanker; BillyBoy; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA
RE :”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told reporters Tuesday that the vaccination issue “is largely silliness stirred up by the media.........
.... A statement he released noted that most states make exceptions for good-faith religious convictions, “But on the question of whether kids should be vaccinated, the answer is obvious, and there's widespread agreement: of course they should.” OH NO.... they got to Ted too. He must have let them vaccinate him and it took him over. Its a plot to take over our kids to brainwash them (recycling, global warming and gay marriage )
That is how the government does it. They got Rubio and now Ted. Those two look the same as before but they are not. Its like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Thank goodness Christie and Paul are still with us to warn us.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:51:57 PM PST
by
sickoflibs
(King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
To: MrB
Polio is coming back in this country because our borders are not secure. Which is more preventable?
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:52:31 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: sickoflibs
Cruz is the only candidate (thus far) whom I could vote for. The rest of them aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit.
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posted on
02/03/2015 12:56:06 PM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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