The right and wrong way to talk about Gardasil; Update: A really, really stupid attack on Palin

Michelle Malkin ^ | 9/13/11 | Michelle Malkin

[beandog]

Good article. Lets see what those excusing Perry for this have to say.

[Perdogg]

I am not going to waste my vote over this stupid gardasil issue. There are more important things to worry about that 100 times bigger than this innuendo crap.

[vicar7]

One thing you can say about Michelle is she is a bulldog and does her research.

[bkepley]

Perry f’d up.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

I found this interesting, from one of Michelle's links:

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"When both the House and Senate repealed the law six weeks later, Perry did not — as he now claims — listen humbly or “agree with their decision.”

Human shield demagoguery. In response to the legislature’s rebuke, the infuriated governor attacked those who supported repeal as “shameful” spreaders of “misinformation” who were putting “women’s lives” at risk. Borrowing a tried-and-true Alinskyite page from the progressive left, Perry surrounded himself with female cervical cancer victims and deflected criticism of his imperial tactics with emotional anecdotes.

He then lionized himself and the minority of politicians who voted against repeal of his Gardasil order. “They will never have to think twice about whether they did the right thing. No lost lives will occupy the confines of their conscience, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.” Perry, of course, has now put his own ghastly Gardasil order on that same altar — but with no apology to all those he demonized and exploited along the way."

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Rick gets funny when you start messin with his money.

[ozzymandus]

I’d say Malkin really hates Perry. I’d also say this whole issue has really been overblown. Wasn’t there an “opt-out” on this vaccination deal?

[Jim from C-Town]

Google pictures of genital warts and pictures of cervical cancer. Man I don't know if I like what Perry did, but DAMN it looks painful!

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Please see post #6

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>There are more important things to worry about that 100 times bigger than this innuendo crap. <<

You certainly have the right to delude yourself and live in denial, if it makes you feel better.

But facts are stubborn things.

[Perdogg]

The facts as you perceive them.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

“I’d say Malkin really hates Perry”

Ah, the “hate” card. Can’t deal with facts, so pull out the “hate” card.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>The facts as you perceive them. <<

No, facts are facts. But go ahead and try to deny them. Maybe they will go away.

[American Dream 246]

But facts are stubborn thingsbr />
You are right. And is not that the plan to clean the government? If we do the same we did with McCain, we will get another dirty politician. It's now or never to save America. NO COMPROMISE. No dirty president. Last chance to clean Washington.

[Cboldt]

-- Wasn't there an "opt-out" on this vaccination deal? --

Yes, but the process for executing the opt out requires approval by the state; and ONLY the original approval, issued by the state, is effective.

It's not a form one simply signs at the doctor's office, or at the school.

[McGruff]

As a sidenote, Perry lowballed the amount of money he took from Merck.

Hey Rush. That's your boy.

[kevkrom]

Wasn’t there an “opt-out” on this vaccination deal?/I>

That what people claim, but it's not entirely true. Texas has an "opt out" system in general, but the EO to mandate Gardasil references it only in directing the health department to make the form avaialble via the Internet. There was no Gardasil-specific opt out clause.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Exactly. I have little respect for morons who are willingly blind, and actually hostile to the truth.

It’s stupidity like that that got us McCain.

[Tribune7]

OK, so is the issue the executive order requiring inoculations unless the parents objected?

Or is the issue the sending of money to a faceless evil corporation to provide an unnecessary and dangerous product to innocent children?

If it's the latter how is what Perry did any different than what Palin did? Alaska provided $$$ to Merck for them to make vaccinations available for every girl 9 through 18, a point about which the Palin administration boasted

Nobody is objecting to Perry being criticized for the EO. What some of us are concerned about is Palin squandering nearly all her reputation (and Bachmann basically losing every bit of respect many of us once held for her) by making unsupported innuendos that Perry is a vile criminal.

The smart thing for the Sarah defenders to do would be to back off and encourage their girl to apologize.

Or spell out the charges in detail.

[Perdogg]

If going to call someone a moron, at least have the balls to do it to his or her face.