Posted on 09/13/2011 7:41:38 AM PDT by AAABEST
Palin even went as far as to lend her voice to the charge leveled by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) during the debate against Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R): That he allowed a law to go though requiring HPV vaccinations for adolescent girls because of a $5,000 campaign donation and his relationship with his former chief of staff, who went on to lobby for a pharmaceutical company.
"I knew there was something to it," Palin said of learning while she was Alaska's governor that her Texas counterpart had given the go-ahead to the vaccine. "Now we're finding that now, yea, something was up with that issue. It was an illustration or bit of evidence of some crony capitalism."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Good Point, I agree
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. I take it from — a little bit from your discussion — I don’t mean to read into it. You can speak for yourself, obviously — but that you — that you are — that you’re pleased with at least with the field tonight or with the way that they answered. Is that correct?
PALIN: Yes, I was pleased. I was very happy with it. Let me go back to that issue with Governor Perry. I was governor of Alaska at the time that that issue came down, and I told our health and human services department Alaska was not going to mandate immunizations for our teenage daughters.
And there had to have been something to that whole issue because it just didn’t sound like Governor Perry. Governor Perry was, you know, the proverbial anti-government type of maverick there in Texas, and yet on this issue, he decided that he was going to know better than a parent was going to know in terms of what the health care or health benefit would be for their teenage daughters. So I knew there was something to it.
And remember when the media went a little bit crazy and demanded to see my 25,000 e-mails that I had written during my term as governor. In those e-mails, there is proof of there that the issue arose while I was governor of Alaska. And the e-mails reflect my — my principle there was, No, government, stay out of the lives of family decisions like that, and do not tell a parent that their daughter must be immunized. ....... And it was a — it was kind of an illustration or a big of evidence of some crony capitalism.
I agree, she is and has jumped the shark - and I’m someone predisposed to liking her a lot. The vaccine issue stinks - really stinks and should be addressed to a degree - and Perry should come out harder against his own decision and to put it to bed - but it’s a little tiring to hear folks with no executive experience (MB and Ron Paul and Santorum) or little experience as governor (Palin) pick a single scab.
Perry’s parental rights record is really good with this one very ugly blot. It’s all besides the point: our country is not in trouble due to forced vaccinations.
Had they not done that, the mandate would have happened, it's a huge black mark against Perry, trying to defend his action it as a positive because it didn't go into effect is laughable.
I can see what Palin REALLY wants through the curtain...She wants a media job....back to her beginnings....her secret ambition. But Palin wants something like what Katie Couric has.
Thus....this "campaign" is just a big news report and precedent for a future BIG media job.
Perry does need to address the crony capitalism issue in light of this indeed. Having said that, Palin herself makes it clear that this decision was an outlier for Perry and totally unlike him normally.
Gardicil stinks, but it is not his pattern, it is an obvious aberration.
- Perry never advocated “forcing” anyone to get a Gardasil vaccination. The executive order - RP65 - had an opt out. The “innocent little 12 year old girls or 11 year old girls in state of Texas” who “would be forced by the government to take an injection” would have only existed in Bachmanns mind.
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You must think your fellow freepers are idiots.
MANDATED
“I would bet dollars to donuts that she and Gov. Perry have already spoken and each understands and respects the others’ position. Make no mistake about it, Gov. Palin and Gov. Perry like and admire each other.”
This would be the ideal scenario, and I would prefer it over the alternative.
At this point there’s no way of knowing. It does seem plausible that Perry could be vp on a Palin ticket.
“The party needs to stay united to win the battle.”
So you are for Crony Capitalism as long as its your Crony Capitalist?
Now is the time to muck out the barn. Its the Primary. No more political cashing in on the government from anybody! If the Republicans are just another flavor of cronyism, we will lose!
Not even Palin does.
it is a huge black mark - no argument here - but there needs to be some perspective. Perry has the longest executive resume of all by far. Bachmann and Santorum and Paul the least (as in zero). Palin and the others all have some record of being an executive, but none anywhere near as long as Perry’s. Since humans are not perfect, the longer one is in charge the more mistakes he/she will make by definition. Look for patterns, not outliers.
If we insist on picking apart every aberration instead of looking for a pattern, I feel like we’ll always come up with a reason not to support anyone whose ever done anything.
If a gardicil like decision was the norm for Perry, I’d be the first name on the “this guy must go” bandwagon. But his over all record of parental rights is very good, with this one fugly blot.
B-I-N-G-O.
The first few words of this piece read:
Palin even went as far as to lend her voice...
To me, part of listening to anyone’s “voice” is an understanding of where they are coming from. With Palin I am unclear at this point if she purports to speak as a journalist, a candidate, a voice of the people, just a regular ‘gal’ gossiping over tea, or...? If someone comments on a candidate and they are also a candidate it shades the comments in a certain way. Good listeners take motives into account when listening to a “voice” or viewpoint. With Palin I am unsure how to listen with the proper nuance in mind.
“As someone who wished she would enter, I have to say she’s doing great damage to herself now. “
She certainly talked herself out of a Perry/Palin ticket. lol
Yes, at this point she needs to decide, is she a candidate or pundit.
Oh, and she needs to be careful, people might actually look and find the Alaska gardasil policy she put in place.
http://hss.state.ak.us/press/2007/pr053107fed-funding-hpv-vax.htm
I qualified the comment. Please pay attention.
No doubt you are.
Gardisil is a hint of an ongoing problem called crony capitalism. It’s not pretty, and it’s something I don’t like about him and his record. It’s his squishy stance on illegals that becomes the deal killer for me. If you haven’t read this speech, please do so, it’s a huge problem and makes me think he is W/redux with a holster on: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/07/obamas_la_raza_speech_plugs_dr.html
Because SARAH lives in your head 24/7, you think you can now read her mind? LOL!!
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