Posted on 06/28/2011 10:04:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Okay, so here are some unsolicited but heartfelt words of caution for Governor Rick Perry of Texas as he contemplates whether to enter the Republican primary for President of the United States.
As you and your trusted aides crunch numbers, take the pulse of major donors, look at various match-ups in states like Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida, please keep this in mind: The conservatives, Republicans, independents, and even the growing number of Democrats who embrace traditional values and strongly oppose Barack Obama and his socialist tendencies, are tired. They are bone tired, worried beyond words, and quite frankly sick of one pretend GOP candidate after the other leaving them at the altar. Enough.
Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi, or former Governor Mike Huckabee--all teased voters in desperate search of a candidate who might spare the nation further damage from the far-left ideology of President Obama and his allies, with a potential or pending run, and all finally declined the challenge. All offered plausible and personal reasons for not entering the area. Fine. We can respect if not understand those choices.
For tens of millions of Americans who see our Republic coming off the rails as unemployment rises, public employee unions cripple the financial well-being of a growing list of cities, counties, and states, the housing market continues to tank, corrupt teachers’ unions putting themselves well before public school children, our health-care system being hijacked by liberal zealots, our sovereign borders becoming more porous, and Islamic terrorist groups outside and inside our borders plotting their next horrific attack, it’s become harder and harder for them to understand why the minute handful of Republicans who could possibly make a positive difference have decided to take a powder on the fight of our lives. Very hard.
Now we have Governor Rick Perry. Over the course of the last few weeks, I have heard from a significant number of conservatives asking me if I thought Perry was serious? They, like me, think he is a talented, ethical, and traditional values espousing public servant and are beyond desperate for him to enter the toughest and most crucial of electoral arenas.
During his exceptional and stirring remarks at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on June 18th, Governor Perry spoke like a man who got it. During the course of his speech -- which inspired a majority in the audience to jump up from their chairs on numerous occasions -- the Governor wondered if nothing was done to stem the liberal destruction of our values, would future generations ask, “Why didn’t someone do something?” He quickly followed up that question by saying, “In Texas we truly believe that you can’t defer tough decisions for tomorrow’s generation.”
Finally, as the Governor of a state which is responsible for over 47% of all jobs created in the entire nation over the last two years, he asked, “If we don’t do it, who will? If not now, when?”
Indeed.
During his remarks, the Governor stressed the need for, and the power of conservative principles. Millions of Americans believe Rick Perry to be a highly principled conservative. Because of that, they are willing to take that one last walk down the aisle.
However, should they be abandoned at the altar once again, not only will their hopes for a better, more prosperous, and more secure country dashed, but their faith in their leaders will be damaged to the core.
Run, Rick, run.
Doesn't really matter what these candidates are now, when they get to DC, it's a totally different show. Only a few presidents have attempted to break the mold.
Perry has shown an ability to help manage government in a way that's not overly intrusive and is fiscally sound. Along with his pro-life, pro-gun attitude, he makes sense at this point.
Whether the rest of the country wants to listen is still a mystery but, Texas, as a whole, is a good role model.
Nope, but opt out works better for affluent families, the poor folks are who most of this stuff is aimed at. Sort of like Congress passing laws that they are exempt from.
If they wanted to make something optional, they would do Opt In. This is exactly how they get kids herded into Sexual Indoctrination classes. Students are given notes to take home for parents to opt out, student throws paper away, student ends up in a Homoerotic class.
Wise up, it happens all the time, I know from experience.
OK, that's a more accurate statement that's worthy of debate, a far cry from your initial "the whole forced vaccination of teen girls" post.
Those who continue to use the words "forced" and "mandatory" in regards to Perry's Guardasil decision fall in to two camps. Those who are just repeating misinformation they've heard elsewhere, or those who refuse to acknowledge the truth because it doesn't fit their anti-Perry agenda.
I've seen that word mandatory used by both supporters and non-supporters of Rick Perry.
I've always thought mandatory properly defined meant obligatory; compulsory: permitting no option. It seems to me that the word has been misused in it's application to what happened with Guardasil.
Perry's unilateral executive order was boneheaded, although well-intentioned. He probably wishes he'd never heard of Guardasil. At the time, parents had a full 18 months to decide what they wanted to do. The order was issued February 2007, and parents had until September 2008 to either comply or opt out. The option to refuse vaccinations under a state law approved and signed by Perry is a loophole large enough to drive a Mack truck through. Only the most incompetent of parents would have been unable to act in the 18 month time frame, and I would certainly fear for any child stuck in such a home.
"Perry's order directs the Health and Human Services Commission to adopt rules for the requirement, which is effective in September 2008.
Parents would be allowed to opt their daughters out for medical, philosophical, religious or moral reasons, as they can do now for other required vaccines.
A 3-year-old state law broadened parents' ability to refuse vaccinations." Read more: Perry orders cancer vaccine for young girls
The vaccine remains to this day part of the Texas Immunization Program, and legislation and programs continue to move forward in many other states. Although Perry's effort was clumsy, he is proving to be an early trail blazer on the matter.
I’m so sad we lost Haley Barbour.
“Please tell us which Texas highways have been “auctioned off”.”
A few, but it’s hard to keep up (and the toll road pages are very short on information as to where the excess toll revenues go). Good luck.
Here is one in the Dallas area:
I can’t begin to imagine the horrors we would bring on ourselves as a nation without an aggressive immunization program at all levels of government where parental rights and common sense coexist.
I know I wouldn’t want to see our country regress to a third world hellhole rampant with otherwise preventable diseases.
I'd like a little more objective source before making any determinations. The article you link is long on opinion and assertions, but short on verifiable facts and sources.
Let’s put it this way.....if I HAD to make a choice of sticking with another 4 years of Zero taking more freedom from America or seceding with Perry in charge of Texas as a republic, I’d go with Texas and Perry. Of course that is hyperbole, but there ya are.
I’d go with Perry and Texas too. BTW wolf, that n00bie danran72 started out bashing Bachman and hasn’t quit.
I've always thought it better to know, than to believe. Those Americans who believe Rick Perry is conservative, had better dig a little deeper.
He's probably not the worst we could do, but folks, he just isn't the anti-Obama that some think he is.
That's not true no matter how many times it's said.
No matter how hard you stomp your feet and deny the truth about Governor Perry's Gardasil mandate, it still happened, and is a matter of public record.
Parents were given a choice to "opt out" of the vaccine for their underage girls, but that's not the same as having free choice and sovereignty over the very bodies of your own children.
If parents weren't aware of their rights under Perry's executive order, their girls would have been forced to take the vaccine.
It was an un-American thing to do, and you really need to stop defending it on this website.
Oh please, knock off the drama queen act.
I'm not defending what Perry did, I've repeatly said it was boneheaded and unilateral, and it should have been properly debated. What I will continue to challenge, regardless of how upset you get, is the false charge that he was forcing young girls to get the shot. That's a provable lie that only the willfully obtuse continue to pedal.
Perhaps you should get a good dictionary and look up the word, 'mandate'. A refresher on the meaning of the phrase, 'executive order' would help too, I think.
You are literally denying that the sky is blue. Under Perry's executive order, girls whose parents had not gone to the trouble of filing the correct government forms to "opt out", would have been forcibly given the Gardasil vaccine.
That is a fact, and one you're obviously so uncomfortable with, that you're willing to stand here in public and deny that it even happened.
Seriously...lying to defend your candidate of choice isn't going to win him any more votes.
NOW THEREFORE, I, RICK PERRY,Governor of Texas, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas as the Chief Executive Officer, do hereby order the following:
Vaccine.The Department of State Health Services shall make the HPV vaccine available through the Texas Vaccines for Children program for eligible young females up to age 18, and the Health and Human Services Commission shall make the vaccine available to Medicaid-eligible young females from age 19 to 21.
Rules.The Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner shall adopt rules that mandate the age appropriate vaccination of all female children for HPV prior to admission to the sixth grade.
Availability.The Department of State Health Services and the Health and Human Services Commission will move expeditiously to make the vaccine available as soon as possible.
Public Information.The Department of State Health Services will implement a public awareness campaign to educate the public of the importance of vaccination, the availability of the vaccine, and the subsequent requirements under the rules that will be adopted.
Parents’ Rights.The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law.
This executive order supersedes all previous orders on this matter that are in conflict or inconsistent with its terms and this order shall remain in effect and in full force until modified, amended, rescinded, or superseded by me or by a succeeding governor.
Given under my hand this the 2nd day of February, 2007.
RICK PERRY(Signature)
Governor
Attested by:
ROGER WILLIAMS(Signature)
Secretary of State
Perry is not my candidate of choice, nor have I lied on his behalf.
If you don't like Perry, that's fine by me, everyone has the right to judge him on the merits, but feeble attempts at insult will win you no converts.
I would refer you to post #43 for further information on this.
Thanks for posting the E.O. excerpt, deport, particularly the Parental Rights part.
Perhaps he's not your candidate of choice, but you certainly have misrepresented the meaning of his Gardasil order, over and over again on this site.
You act as though I'm making some spurious charge against the man, when in reality, I'm simply repeating the plain facts of the incident. Do a bit of reading here, and you'll see those same facts posted hundreds of times by others.
Good lord, the whole state of Texas was up in arms about this order. You think that 24 million people misunderstood it?
Now that Deport has posted the actual verbiage from Perry's executive order, you have no further excuse to not understand the plain meaning of it.
This is my prior statement on the matter. I stand by it.
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Those who continue to use the words "forced" and "mandatory" in regards to Perry's Guardasil decision fall in to two camps. Those who are just repeating misinformation they've heard elsewhere, or those who refuse to acknowledge the truth because it doesn't fit their anti-Perry agenda.
I've seen that word mandatory used by both supporters and non-supporters of Rick Perry.
I've always thought mandatory properly defined meant obligatory; compulsory: permitting no option. It seems to me that the word has been misused in it's application to what happened with Guardasil.
Perry's unilateral executive order was boneheaded, although well-intentioned. He probably wishes he'd never heard of Guardasil. At the time, parents had a full 18 months to decide what they wanted to do. The order was issued February 2007, and parents had until September 2008 to either comply or opt out. The option to refuse vaccinations under a state law approved and signed by Perry is a loophole large enough to drive a Mack truck through. Only the most incompetent of parents would have been unable to act in the 18 month time frame, and I would certainly fear for any child stuck in such a home.
"Perry's order directs the Health and Human Services Commission to adopt rules for the requirement, which is effective in September 2008.
Parents would be allowed to opt their daughters out for medical, philosophical, religious or moral reasons, as they can do now for other required vaccines.
A 3-year-old state law broadened parents' ability to refuse vaccinations." Read more: Perry orders cancer vaccine for young girls
The vaccine remains to this day part of the Texas Immunization Program, and legislation and programs continue to move forward in many other states. Although Perry's effort was clumsy, he is proving to be an early trail blazer on the matter.
You and I obviously disagree about the meaning of "forced" and "mandatory". To me these aren't difficult words to understand, but in the case of Guardasil and the Perry E.O., they are words that have been misapplied by Perry's detracters.
Carry on, if you must. If you want to maintain that view, you're going to wind up arguing with nearly every Texan you meet, about this issue.
What Perry did in the Gardasil episode wasn't just misguided, it was wholly un-American on its face. That's why the people of Texas erupted in anger about it.
You say that he's not your candidate, but you're defending him harder than most of his acknowledged supporters on this site. You might as well just admit that he's your guy.
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