Bachmann: Gardasil causes “mental retardation”

Hot Air ^ | September 13, 2011 | Ed Morrissey

[gogogodzilla]

What kind of monster is this man?

You already answered the question. He's the most evil of monsters... a *MAN*; specifically, a WHITE MAN.

Run for your life!!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Anyhow, Perry bollixed up the ballyhooed opt-out which was supposed to defuse the controversy. Public school, no problem. But he forgot, or didn't care, that a lot of private schools in Texas reference the "mandatory" vaccination list of Texas rather than bothering to spell out what vaccinations they want. And they might not have had time to revise their policy in light of this special case, the first special case of its kind. That's why the Texas legislature was moved to shoot this turkey down.

"Additionally, some schools, daycare facilities and colleges are saying they don't have to accept the exemption. This is wrong - the law grants parents this right and the schools and daycares can't take this right away. For your convenience, we've posted links to the state statutes directly below. "

Texas vaccine exemption

[shield]

We will see Bachmann's numbers really start to tank now. She looked like a nuttier with her shrill outburst and lies. Rick Perry’s Political Judo

[anonsquared]

If Perry truly believed that this vaccination would halt the spread of HPV, then why didn’t he require teenage boys to get it too?

Teenage boys are spreading the virus. A teenage girl will usually have fewer partners then a boy. So while a girl may spread it to a couple of boys, a boy carrying the HPV virus may spread it to a dozen girls. And yes, they have proven it works on males. So I ask again, if Perry truly believed that this vaccination would halt the spread of HPV, then why didn’t he require teenage boys to get it too?

Forget the charges of campaign payoffs, instead ask him if he would again make the same misogynistic choice not to require of males that which he would require of females.

[Texan]

Perry also has ties to big oil, big tobacco, big cattle, the tea party, Christians, the Republicans, dog owners, & the industrial cotten complex

You forgot gun owners.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Neither shines a particularly favorable light on Bachmann.

Overnight, it seems, she turned from a solid conservative ideologue (though an inexperienced executive) to a flailing madwoman rivaling Ron Paul in nuttiness.

I’m glad it’s coming out now, when she’s at six percent support. We really don’t need a CinC like this. It seems the nation dodged a bullet with Michelle self-destructing.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Let Merck profit, if it wants, by putting its product on the free, opt-in market.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

WHY DO YOU KEEP SPAMMING THIS POST ON MULTIPLE THREADS? We know you are in the tank for Perry, and that is fine. But please stop spamming.

Does truth have an expiration date?

[HiTech RedNeck]

IF THE SCHOOL LOOSES THE FORM THEY CAN KICK YOUR KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL.

???

[Trailerpark Badass]

LOL, so we would have had McCain?

[xenob]

I think some of these anti-vaccine people have the same zealotry of environmentalist who want me to light my home with candles. Yes candles use no electricity but they are also likely to burn down my house. Yes, there are risks with vaccines but there are BIGGER risks not doing them.

[jersey117]

Joe Wilson got beat by a write-in candidate most conservatives desipise. Could she even carry Alaska?

[LearsFool]

There are certain highly communicable infectious diseases that are very very dangerous to not only children but adults as well. I support vaccinations for these diseases.

Right on. And since HPV is transmitted from one 6th-grade girl to another just by sitting together in the cafeteria, a vaccine is necessary to prevent a catastrophic outbreak.

That's /sarc, since I know you see the difference between highly communicable infectious diseases and HPV. Several on this thread, however, talk about HPV as though it were typhoid fever. Next they'll tell us you can catch herpes from a toilet seat.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh gosh, she cares about things that every mother would care about. That means she’d be a lousy President. QED

[TigersEye]

The parents were not informed about the method to opt out.

ROTFLMAO Were you actually serious when you said that?

[Cboldt]

FWIW, in addition to the campaign contribution, the "crony capitalism" charge also has as components that Merck lobbied the states to have the vaccine mandated, by law; that Perry's chief of staff went on to work for Merck; and that the vaccine was made mandatory (to the same extent most "mandatory" vaccines are mandatory) by an executive order.

As a view of the operation of government, it's hard to argue that there isn't some crony capitalism going on there. How much, if any of it attaches to Perry, personally, is a slightly different issue.

[KansasGirl]

[Gardacil only protects against 4 strains of HPV]

Gardasil provides immunity to 4 strains, 2 which are the high risk strains that causes 75% of all cervical cancers.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Your vote will be cancelled a thousand times over by fraud and stupidity.

But if voting makes you feel good, by all means, DO IT!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Frankly the whole world deserves hell. God is refraining from that for the time being. But there is less grace shown through Obama than would be through John McCain. And Sarah Palin would be coming up in 2012 — McCain was old enough that he only planned to serve one term.

The only time a completely meritorious person will have the government on his shoulders, it won’t happen through a vote.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If Perry truly believed that this vaccination would halt the spread of HPV, then why didn’t he require teenage boys to get it too?

That was almost 5 years ago.

More recently:

July 2011 - A Vaccine May Shield Boys Too Until recently, Gardasil was a girls-only proposition. Approved for young women ages 9 to 26, the vaccine promised a great benefit: protection against four strains of sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), including two that can lead to cancer of the cervix, vagina and vulva.

Yet the vaccine has been a tough sell. It requires three shots, often painful, over the course of seven months. So far, only one in four teenage girls younger than 18 have completed all three shots.

Now, in the wake of new research suggesting that the vaccine protects against other cancers, Gardasil is increasingly marketed as an important vaccine for boys, too. The Food and Drug Administration has approved it for young men ages 9 to 26, expanding the list of indications just last December. ....."