I posted to FR under my husband’s name (adding “Cincinatus’ Wife” at the bottom of each post) before I signed in as “Cincinatus’ Wife” in my own right.
For our wedding anniversary in 1998, for my gift I asked to go from Texas to Washington D.C. and attend the first Free Republic march during the Clinton-Lewinsky, Clinton-everything outrage.
I refuse to be dismissed because I like what Gov. Rick Perry stands for. I want this country repaired. And if my persistence has caused you to look further, I thank my Irish roots (which are red) for making me fight back against the campaign to destroy his chances of being nominated.
As I previously stated, I am not dismissing you or your positions.
I seem to recall seeing your name in older threads (can’t find any due to your abundant posting of late) which have struck a chord.
I think however, we have several issues going on here.
1 - Is Perry suitable for the position?
2 - Is the HPV vaccine as safe and efficacious as it is touted to be?
3 - Did Perry “mandate” the vaccine?
and others.
1 - he may be, certainly I like a lot of his statements and style better than those of several other front runners. If he were to get the nomination and choose Romney for a vp, I may retract that.
2 - I quoted reasonable questions from the New England Journal of Medicine on another thread, but did not elicit a response until you felt dismissed or attacked.
I would say that there are enough questions regarding it to make it unwise to mandate the vaccine, and I would be leery of hitching Perry to the vaccination wagon. Scientific understanding and consensus are subject to change, and what one day may seem like the latest in knowledge may another become evidence of how little one knows.
3 - It appears that the “mandate” was not as much of one as I at first believed, if the opt out is readily available (?) and not overly intrusive, and if the purpose was merely to get insurance companies to pay for it, as some have posited.
I am not sure that the EO was the best way to reach that end, or that the bureaucracy involved in opting out is as easy or unintrusive as advertised (noted that Perry supposedly ordered more available).
Some may have issues with making insurance pay for it - Health care in general still needs a good looking into. Big government, big pharma, and big insurance are none of our friends.
I am no more interested in an oligarchy of corporations than I am one of professors, and would like to see a candidate with real solutions for both.