I lived through this in Texas having a daughter this age whose mother had cervical cancer. I was concerned as a Conservative Texan about Perry's actions about the new-ness of the drug and the fear that my daughter may take it as tacit permission to engage in sexual promiscuity because I gave her a drug to protect her while doing it.
But what I found is that I believe that Perry's heart was in the right place, he got spanked for it and learned from it.
“Perry’s heart was in the right place,”
His heart is NOT in the right place if he is trampling on parental rights. His heart is not in the right place if he is accusing legislators adn citizen who disagree with him of being anti-life and pro-cancer. And his heart is not in the right place if his administration is thick as thieves with Merck, taking money and having close associates who are lobbying.
He “learned from it and apologized” (as you say) only a few days ago after being scourged by conservatives all over the blogosphere. Such conversions , upon entering a Presidential election, are highly unpersuasive. His apology reeks of political expediency.
Romney’s flip flops are not convincing. Perry’s are even less so, since he comes from a conservative state and his deviations from conservatism are even less understandable, unless, as appears likely, he actually believes them.
After all, he was Al Gore’s state Chairman in 1988.
Probably 50 % are Axelrod or DU trolls and who knows about the other half.
This is a screaming astroturf post and few are here to be reasonable.
Perry is a threat to MANY HERE . Perry has been in the field for five days and the Obama media has issued a record number of astroturf articles and you will see the Axelrod Obots here posting these links to obscure blogs that trash Perry.
He has a chance to defeat Obama so he scares quite a few .