See you are pitching your favorite RINO, on FR.
Has he confronting either issue yet?
RINO Perry's intent was to
(1) reward his political allies inc. Chief of Staff and his Merck employer and
(2) to essentially shove an untested drug into the bodies of
his constituents’ pre-pubescent girls. Girls. So where was his
due diligence? Where was the informed consent?
Is there an iota of evidence that he did really care? Most importantly,
what would he do on a national level, if given the power.
Many on this forum are still waiting to hear Gov. Perry
begin to finally address this issue.
Rick Perry's wife Anita Perry was a nurse for many years and still is involved in health care as First Lady of Texas, so I imagine health care is something this governor is more aware of than maybe your "average" governor and understood this to be a vaccine that would combat cervical cancer and cut heath care costs.
Then too Rick Perry grew up hard scrabble with little luxury as many have, yet vaccines traditionally have been made available to all.
Instead of applying the worst motives to Rick Perry, perhaps his critics could consider that his motives were good ones.
Another FReeper had some thoughts on this issue.
However, there are some here on FR who prefer to apply the worst motives to Rick Perry.
The most "vocal" either won't name a candidate they would support; say they would vote for Huntsman or Romney over Perry; say they would rather Obama stay in the White House than vote for Rick Perry.
The HPV vaccine was always Opt-Out. And according to this report had been changed to Opt-In, before being dropped entirely.
90 days after his EO, Gov. Rick Perry let stand legislation undoing the EO.
..Ann Hettinger, Concerned Women for America's state director of Texas, was instrumental in convincing Perry to change his proposal to an opt-in provision. When asked if Perry's original plans for the HPV vaccine would be an issue if he were to run for president, [Penny] Nance replied, “It would've been an issue IF HE HAD NOT FIXED IT.”
Perry has been Governor for more than a decade. If Gardasil and the TTC are the only significant flaws in his record suggesting that he may not be sufficiently conservative, then he's as good as we're ever going to get and maybe better than we've ever had before. Even Reagan had his apostasies. He signed California's liberal abortion law, for example.
We need someone who rejects the progressive idea that government can perform miracles. Anyone who ever fell for the global warming scam or the “universal health care” delusion is a nonstarter because they don't have enough resistance to that idea. But if we turn up our nose at anyone who was ever involved in any government overreach we'll be caught in a Catch 22 — Only successful politicians can be serious presidential candidates but no successful politician can be pure enough to earn our support.
Perry isn't my beau ideal of a presidential candidate. He does however meet my minimum requirements which is more than I can say for anyone currently in the field. He'll do, Romney, Huntsman and Pawlenty won't. Bachmann, Cain and Santorum can't overcome Romney's head start and funding advantage. Perry may very well be conservatives’ only acceptable option.
Harping on the minor flaws in his record is counterproductive. Remember the timeless wisdom of the ancient enemy, LBJ — “Don't piss in the soup we all have to eat.”
Coyotes waking up early. Yep...Yep...yep... PDS.
Your "untested drug" was approved by the FDA the year before. Are you familiar with FDA procedures? Even a little bit? It was also recommended by both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) before Perry signed his executive order which included an opt-out clause.
But, you knew this already.