Posted on 09/04/2011 12:42:11 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Cheers!
He has said why. It’s easy to find his quotes.
He’s also said it was a mistake and he realized he needed to heed the people of Texas, who made it clear they wouldn’t accept it.
Now I ask you this: if Rick Perry had understood ahead of his decision on guardasil vaccinations that the people would utterly reject the plan, would he have still written the executive order to do it?
Of course he would never have written it. Which is clear, unequivocal evidence that it was not Merck ruling the day, but it was the people ruling the day. To Perry’s everlasting embarrassment, he failed to anticipate the reaction. Had he seen that one coming, of course he never would’ve done it.
He would love to have that hanging curve ball back...
That’s silly.
What is she, a child?
Perry’s detractors have been peddling this stuff for years and years.
That will not wash.
But you’re practically admitting that Perry has no ability to take the lead on a moral issue.
A Governor or a President need to be able to do this. It’s why their moral character counts so much in an election.
Perry should have known immediately, in his heart, that it was wrong.
He has explained what he was thinking.
It wasn’t immoral...if what he said about why actually represented his thinking.
I never thought it was immoral, just wrongheaded, unworkable, and would be unpopular.
He said it was presented to him as a leadpipe cinch to act then to prevent thousands of future cancer cases, in other words to short circuit an otherwise inevitable cancer epidemic.
To his embarrassment, he failed to anticipate that implementing the vaccinations under the required school vaccinations program would be viewed differently than people viewed the traditional school vaccines program.
People resented that eleven year old girls would be given a vaccine at school, not an initial school entry requirement such as other transmittable disease vaccines but a shot to prevent a sexually transmittable disease which also leads to cancer.
That’s Perry’s cross to bear. He actually didn’t see it coming. Apparently he thought most people would welcome a program through the school to stop cancers in their tracks, that people would appreciate their children being given this protection from that dreaded disease.
I have you people caught in the true dilemma...I didn’t make it up...the true dilemma is, if Perry had known of the reaction ahead of time, he would not have done it.
But if he would not have done it, if he wishes like heck he had that decision back, that is clear evidence it wasn’t Merck who ruled inside Perry’s head, it was the people of Texas.
What I’m saying is it should have been Perry who ruled inside Perry’s head. Or his heart.
The obvious conclusion is he doesn’t really think like the people of Texas think. I would guess his partial reputation as a conservative comes only from his ability to sound conservative.
But everyone else will get it.
Cheers!
He was repeating what Merck said and represented to the public as having been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.
So Perry trusted the FDA.
Perry considered the FDA to be the final authority on something that was rejected by the common sense of average Texans.
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