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 change yur mantra to Bachmann is and your nightmare will become a sweet dream.
The gaff was in her making it look like her only research on the subject was talking to some stranger who walked up to her from the crowd.
I don’t like Perry, although I may end up voting for him. I will never trust him.
Rush is promoting Perry, big time. ““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.”
That isn’t entirely accurate. In reality, Perry attacked the GOP for overriding him, accusing his opponents of letting women die for political expediency. THAT is what folks should attack Perry for...along with being pro-illegal immigration.
“In an emotional speech to reporters Tuesday, during which the governor surrounded himself with women whose lives have been affected by the cancer-causing infection, Perry laid blame for future cervical cancer deaths at the feet of lawmakers who supported the bill.
Perry thanked the minority of legislators who voted against the bill and said, “No lost lives will occupy the confines of their conscience, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.”
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/05/09/9hpv.html
That has me a little worried, but remember that the polls still have Perry with a double digit lead over Romney.
Here is the primary schedule:
January 31st: Florida (Likely to change)
February 6th: Iowa caucuses
February 7th: Minnesota GOP caucuses, Missouri, New Jersey
February 14th: New Hampshire
February 18th: Nevada caucuses
February 21st: Wisconsin
February 28th: South Carolina, Arizona, Michigan
March 6th (Super Tuesday): Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Colorado caucuses, Idaho GOP caucuses, Minnesota Democratic caucuses
I can honestly only see Romney potentially winning new hampshire and massachusetts. Perry will easily win all the others. Where is Romney’s road to the nomination? All the states he is likely to do well in California and Utah are dead last to vote. By super Tuesday Romney is toast.
His background suggests just the opposite to me. He came from humble beginnings, raised on a farm. He achieved the honor of Eagle Scout. Still married to his high school sweetheart. He was selfless enough to serve his country. Many characteristics go into making the man. Just look what obama's done. Do you think Perry would have homosexualized the military? Do you think he will work under the radar to take your guns? Do you think he will leave a baby who survives an abortion on the cutting room floor. Do you think he will create conditions for union and racial uprisings in our country? Do you think he'll put any more Kagans on the Supreme Court? God knows what else obama has in store for us. I am terrified for my children and grandchildren to find out. If Perry can stop him I'll take it compared to the alternative.
Such would be any belief that this woman has the experience, intelligence, knowledge, polish and electability to ever be President.
I mean why NOT take a anecdotal claim conflating mental retardation with autism and prop up a widely discredited link between vaccinations and autism and repeat it on national TV?
Because anyone with any knowledge of the subject will know immediately that she lacks critical knowledge, or the intelligence or judgment to learn just how little she really knows.
Maybe if she were more submissive to her husband she would have checked with him first./s
I like Bachmann, I like Perry. And I don;t like to see the GOP candidates clobbering each other.
ONE of them will be left standing to fight Obama and we needn’t give him ammunition.
More than liking Bachmann and Perry, I despise Obama and want him OUT of the White House.
ANYONE would be better.
These candidates should remember Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment!
I think you nailed it.
NO Conservative should EVER be conformable with a Government official, no matter how well intentioned, demanding the right to inject into children anything without the parent's consent.
There is NO WAY to square Perry's actions here with Conservative values.
The Perry camp would be really wise to stop trying to justify the unjustifiable. Perry is on the right track, he admitted it as an error and moved on. His followers would be really wise to follow his lead on this.
Bachmann is a Christian.
Romney is a Mormon Bachmann is a onservativve. Romney is a Socialist. I would would like to have seen more questions to Rick Santorum last night. I have never been particularly fond of Rush Limbaugh.
Good helpful post. One thing that is often forgotten: candidates rack up delegates state by state. Even if a candidates’ national numbers look good, that doesn’t amount to anything, unless that candidate also wins individual states.
As you correctly note, the state by state layout strongly benefits Perry.
An interesting footnote: Even if Palin runs (I know that there is really little chance of that at this stage...but even so, it is for another month or so, at least a theoretical possibility), what is HER path to the nomination?
Which STATES is she actually going to win?
We all know that it is impossible for her to win New Hampshire. She might have a shot in Iowa but I doubt it. She is not going to win Minnesota, or New Jersey.
The fact is that all of these early states STRONGLY favor Perry, or Romney (except possibly Iowa).
So even if she jumps in, and even if she vaults to the national lead among the other candidates, she is unlikely to win any state before Wisconsin or Arizona.
Her only hope would be that she somehow manages to catch fire in Iowa, and that brings her immediate organization and numbers in subsequent states.
For better or worse, that doesn’t work, as a general rule. Ask President Huckabee.
In any event, your helpful post puts a real world perspective on this.
Exactly right. I had serious doubts about the wisdom of having our daughter get the Gardicil shots, suspecting that the risk of side effects outweighed the potential benefits of protection against four strains of HPV. However, after talking with numerous physician-friends of ours, including several with teenage daughters who were getting the shots, we decided to have her vaccinated. In any case, HPV is not contagious in the same sense that smallpox or polio were contagious, so there is no medical reason for a government mandate as Perry proposed.
I Think Rush suggested that Romney and Huntsman both should withdraw and run as Democrats.
The PerryBots are here in full force, each hearing what they wanted to hear, whether it fit the facts or not.
The race has not yet began, in spite of the best efforts of the Liberal MSM to pick our candidate, by the process of assassination.
These debates are nothing but Turkey Shoots, designed to start fights among the perceived front runners. If they were real debates each candidate would get the same question and equal time to address it.
Anyone really believe time was divided anywhere near equally?
I disagree with both Palin and Rush on the value of these Turkey shoots. They serve the unannounced candidate much more than the participants.
LLS
Amen to that. See post 28.
The dude is a living legend... and in his day... one tough...
LLS
I heard the same last week, the day after the first debate.
Rush is a straight shooter.
It seems is favors Perry; but he is critical of Perry’s border policy (er, lack thereof).
The feeling I got listening to Rush lately and today is that he does support Perry. I think he also supports Palin, but was annoyed at her crony capitalism attack on Perry on Greta’s show last night.
How about Perrt/Cain or Perry/Santorum?
Can’t add anything to that... well done.
LLS
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