Ruined, how? You howled indignation at me. The answer to your question— the state has the power to require the vaccination—if we let them have it. The point in my entire post was that the feds decided this mandate, not Perry, and he tried a workaround. He could have done better, and it may be a flaw in his management style— but wasn’t totally bad no matter how others might characterize it. Malkin is nuts for Bachmann as a purist would be. She does great things, generally. Bachmann is not presidential material, but she is a great conservative voice.
All conservatives should agree there is not enough there with HPV to warrant a “mandate” from the feds. That should have been the focus, but wasn’t. Repealing obamacare and Merck and corporate crony capitalism should have been the focus, but wasn’t. Every governor faced this mandate. That was not brought out. The RINO response to this was Romney’s and the Tea Partiers saw it.
Bachmann was off point with the “drug reaction/retardation” argument which may be true. Some time back a claim of “autism” causality was made and proven false. It had nothing to do with the subject— how do you keep the feds out of our citizens’ lives?
Deo Vindice.
And if you think that was howling you're underestimating my distaste for executive orders declaring government as the default caretaker for Americas children while parents must "request" conscientious objector status to become the caregiver.