Posted on 09/13/2011 12:29:10 PM PDT by supahstar2005
After scoring points against Texas Gov. Rick Perry in last night’s Republican debate on the issue of Gardasil vaccinations, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann made a statement on the Fox News Channel that she was informed Gardasil caused one child’s mental retardation.
On his Tuesday radio show, Rush Limbaugh thought attacking Perry on that issue was ill-advised but admitted Perry had “goofed up” with that executive order.
“Alright, Perry goofed up by using an executive order on the Gardasil,” Limbaugh said. “There’s no question he goofed up on it instead of taking it to the Texas legislature. He’s admitted that over and over again. I think one of the reasons that Perry gets tired is that he had all the questions. He had to answer a question three or four times last night and he did it smiling.”
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Just wish Newt had better principles as he would have been formidable. I'm for either Newt or Cain right now. The rest, not so much.
Sounds like the dude we have now..............
Um, because their faces don’t look paralyzed or overly manequin-like. Like John Kerry did back in the day.
(reality check: if you are a Botox user, and you think you are getting away with it, rest assured.....you aren’t. It is very creepy).
With him I would add that he doesn’t have the ideological core necessary to be President.
Polish and electability, unfortunately, he had.
Not so much anymore - his flash has worn rather thin and people are tired of “hope and change”.
Despite his personal history with women etc. . .I like Newt. Trust him and he knows his history and so knows our future; if we do not change it and drastically and quickly. Good grief; he offers the most and the best, experience of any of them, thus far debating. . .
Nope, never said that in my post.
Just making the two points, one about the opt-out and the other that immuunization are already required of pre-schoolers.
I hardly believe Perry is perfect, nor did I George Bush.
Perry is not T.E.A. Party approved, but the T.E.A. Party will support Perry in mass against a big government marxist like Obamah.
I never thought I would be disagreeing with Rush. But I am on this one. Getting a little tired of him. He said he would be upset if Bachmann did what she did so that ship has sailed. But why he would be upset is dumb. You’d think he’d know how the election cycle goes after 23 years. Safe to say I don’t agree with Rush over this. Bachmann had every right to make her case and try to attack approach. This shouldn’t be the coronation of Rick Perry with not one vote cast and the primaries being months away.
Over the past year people here on FR have noticed subtle changes in Rush anyways. The tea he is selling, paying a cool million to Elton John to play a wedding, the marriage itself and his lackluster approach some days. Just saying. One can look the posts up.
Aw, aren’t you just too macho for words, a regular redneck?Why don’t you just come right out and say you don’t think any woman can qualify to be president of the United States?
Michelle Bachmann has shown herself to have the qualifications to be a good leader of the country. She is Mother, Appole pie and Chevrolet, and that is just fine with me. She is an American who loves America! Much as men hate to admit it, women are known to have high IQs plus common sense! Bachmann, like President Reagan, would delegate authority to capable people.
To address your comments on autism, it is a condition rarely heard about until until the last twenty five or thirty years ago. Vaccines have been promoted for babies, and yung children, some even mandatory, for decades now, and countless PSAs announce daily that one out of every 110 babies or young childdren are autistic! Could there possibly be a connection there?
When I first heard of Gardisil, I thought how can there be a vaccine that is said to prevent uterine cancer? it was new. Who woud ever expose their precious chid to such a vaccine? Long term affects had not even been established! That anyone in government would mandate inoculating young girls with it is outrageous! I would never have complied with such a mandate!
I said nothing against her gender, only her qualifications.
So unless I ignore that she is only from the House of Representatives and legislators from the lower chamber of Congress make lousy candidates for Executive office, that she isn't very knowledgeably - or even smart enough to check on what she doesn't know but thinks she does - unless I ignore that she doesn't have either charisma or electability; well then I MUST be anti woman!
That song and dance is rather old and tired right now.
Can you point to a single thing I said about her that was specific to her gender?
No. Because her gender is irrelevant.
The vaccine autism link is absolutely wrong.
And dumb ol Bachmann couldn't even get that bit correct.
She isn't even correct about the subject she is WRONG about.
She barely did compared to how she went after Perry - she should have gone after Romney at least as much if not twice as much.
Perry is her main competition, not Romney. Bachmann isn’t going for the RINO vote.
If Bachmann is to have any chance, she needs to weaken Perry. I think she did a little bit last night, but she may have done some damage to herself as well.
Attacking Obama -- or whoever the Dems nominate, and I think there's a good chance that our Republian candidate will be going up against someone other than Obama -- is not the point of the primaries.
The primary candidates aren't running against Obama for the GOP nomination. They're running against each other.
Choosing the best GOP candidate for president based on how he/she attacks Obama, is ill advised, if only because Obama may not even be the one the nominiee will face in the general.
Choosing the best GOP candidate for president based on how well that individual undertands, articulates, and exemplifies limited government conservative principles, is the best way to choose the best person to get our Republic back on the track of liberty, morality, independence, and prosperity.
I'm all for primary candidates vetting each other and calling each other out on real or imagined betrayal of limited government principle -- that's what they should do in order to convince me to support one over the other. I don't give a rat's patoot how well they skewer Obama -- that's like being impressed that a ball rolls. I DO care very much how well they will stand up and fight for LIMITED GOVERNMENT and some other things, such as being pro-Israel, pro life, pro gun, anti-global-warming-hoax, and anti-regulation.
There'll be time to kiss and make up among ourselves AFTER the primaries.
She has no chance, she is no longer even close - her attacks seemed more personal that principled, I thought she was more principled than that - I guess I was wrong, she is just looking out for number one.
Perry will have to hold his own, I just think that Romneycare is way worse than the Gardisil issue.
Oh, really, Rush? You really think he "just goofed up"??
Well, guess what Rush...
"I think we need to hear what Governor Perry's saying. He's saying that his policy was right. He believes that what he did was right. He thinks he went about it the wrong way".
"I believe your policy is wrong. Why -- ladies and gentlemen, why do we inoculate people with vaccines in public schools? Because we're afraid of those diseases being communicable between people at school. And therefore, to protect the rest of the people at school, we have vaccinations to protect those children."
"Unless Texas has a very progressive way of communicating diseases in their school by way of their curriculum, then there is no government purpose served for having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government. This is big government run amok. It is bad policy, and it should not have been done."
Both are bad. But at least both are done at the state level. If you don't like the laws, you can always move to another state. That's the way it is supposed to be.
Wow. Very well stated by Santorum.
Thank you to ElRushbo. I am sick of hearing about it too. Perry has answered this enough. Are we supposed to hand out country over to Obama for a second terms because Michele Bachmann is throwing hissy fits about something that has been answered, explained and Perry even said he would have done it differently. Would Michele Bachmann say she made a mistake in her life???? I doubt it.
“Nobody pitched a bitch when the government insisted on polio vaccination. / It’s the same situation here.”
No, it isn’t the same. Polio was a highly contagious disease with no means of avoidance.
“The virus that causes cervical cancer is spread through sexual contact...The Pap test is the best way to find cervical cell changes that can lead to cervical cancer. Regular Pap tests almost always show these cell changes before they turn into cancer.”
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/cervical-cancer/cervical-cancer-topic-overview?page=2
“Based on rates from 2005-2007, 0.68% of women born today will be diagnosed with cancer of the cervix uteri at some time during their lifetime.”
http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/cervix.html
Found early (PAP smear), survival rates are 90% and climbing.
“Does infection with a cancer-associated type of HPV always lead to a precancerous condition or cancer?
No. Most HPV infections appear to go away on their own without causing any kind of abnormality. However, persistent infection with cancer-associated HPV types increases the risk that mild abnormalities will progress to more severe abnormalities or to cervical cancer. With regular follow-up care by trained clinicians, women with precancerous cervical abnormalities can have these abnormalities removed or treated before cancer develops.
Do women who have been vaccinated against HPVs still need to have Pap tests?
Yes. Pap tests continue to be essential to detect cervical cancers and precancerous changes, even in women who have been vaccinated against HPVs, because current HPV vaccines do not protect against all HPV types that cause cervical cancer. Therefore, it is important for vaccinated women to continue to undergo cervical cancer screening in accord with recommendations for women who have not been vaccinated. “
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/Pap-test
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