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.