Here's your state-sponsored "Enterprise" fithcal conthervativism back at ya...
NO SALE.
Posted on 09/18/2011 1:29:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
CORPUS CHRISTI — Gov. Rick Perry is under attack for trying to prevent a cancer whose yearly death toll exceeds this nation’s 9/11 losses by more than a thousand. On this issue, we are compelled to defend him — an unfamiliar role — and to wonder whether the master politician hand-picked his attackers.
We speak, of course, of the other Republican presidential candidates and their assault on Perry’s 2007 executive order that all sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against HPV, a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer and genital warts. The order was soon overturned in a hail of criticism that it usurped parental control (though it included an opt-out), encouraged promiscuity and returned a favor to Perry contributor Merck.
Texans had pretty much put this episode behind them — even the ones who were most angry about it, perhaps because those predisposed to anger on this issue are predisposed to back Perry on most others. But along came the Republican presidential primary campaign, then later came Perry into that campaign after an extended theatrical hemming and hawing, only to snatch instant frontrunner-hood. The HPV issue is the best opportunity for the other candidates, especially extreme-right Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, to nip at Perry’s heels.
The governor’s connection to Merck and to the lobbyist who sought his support is undeniable. Perry’s opponents can charge cronyism with a degree of accuracy. He responded to a pitch for a commercial product, delivered by someone who had fast-track access to him. But since the product’s widespread use would be in the public’s best interest, it appears that Perry has chosen his cronies wisely.
As for the notion that the HPV vaccine would promote promiscuity, it’s hard to imagine a teenager deciding to have sex because she was vaccinated against HPV, or deciding against it because she hasn’t been.
Bachmann took it a step further, suggesting that the vaccine can cause mental retardation. She bases this on her account of a weeping mother telling her it happened to her daughter. The American Academy of Pediatrics responded that the HPV vaccine is safe and doesn’t cause mental retardation, based on science.
Now Perry is in the unfamiliar position of having both science and us on his side. He has said, repeatedly, that his method was wrong but his purpose — preventing cancer and saving lives — was right.
The attacks on Perry play well before a right-wing audience focused on limited-government principles. When the focus shifts to daughters — which at some point it will — this family-first audience will stop paying only lip service to putting family first, even if it means joining a science-believing audience on this one issue.
The HPV attacks, while appearing to hurt Perry’s chances of winning the nomination, will do much to dispel concerns that he’s too far right to win the general election. We have to wonder if Bachmann is part of a plan to enhance Perry’s electability.
His most viable opponent, Mitt Romney, did his part to help that cause.
While Romney agreed that Perry should have gone about the HPV issue differently, “I think his heart was in the right place.” This confirms the disputable theory that Perry has a heart. No other issue addressed by Perry thus far in the campaign suggests that he does. His nonchalant comment about the many executions under his watch, chillingly applauded during the California debate, suggested that he doesn’t.
So, in the long run, Perry’s HPV mistake will do him more good than harm. He looks manly, defiant and compassionate defending it. It lures people into his corner who usually aren’t, including us, and ultimately won’t chase away those who usually are.
But the national media is painting him as an absolute far right RADICAL - incapable of winning in the general election.
I'm starting to tune everyone out and lose interest in a hurry. Not in Perry, in dumbass people.
>>You ashamed of where you live?
Nah, unlike drunken loudmouthed Texicans who brag about how unenlightened they think the Declaration of Independence's architect is --- I'm proud to be an American.
{primate yawwwwn}
So now that you’re done with your semantic Kabuki dance — answer the question:
When did Governor Perry’s administration discover it was an error to give Angelo Mozilo’s predatory enterprise 20 million dollars; and WHAT did his administration do about correcting that error?
You’re pathetic!
Your backyard.
>>Your backyard.
What about it?
Picture of...your backyard. LOl!
Uhuh. A yard with a picture of a Trojan Log Cabin being returned upon its fithcally conthervative makers, air mail.
What you gonna try next --- a large wooden Rhinocerous?
NO SALE.
Who squealed?!
Agree, too many ?erks on this & border response
No. Why don't you explain it to me again, in greater detail?
Before you complain about the source, keep in mind a couple of things:
1) The attacks on Perry (and presumably, any other Republican who would at some point become the frontrunner) come from leftie sources as well (i.e. MSM and its hangers-on).
2) The Left has this waiting in the wings, and it will have to be dealt with if and when SARAH! gets into the race. Naysaying its source won't make it go away, nor does it negate the essential veracity of the story.
I am in total agreement.
Thank you
You are welcome.
FWIW, the whole claim may end up to be nothing more than Joe McGinniss-style wish fulfillment, but we need to be ready for it, just in case.
What about it?
LomanBill, I just want to compliment you on how tidy and neatly trimmed your back yard is. That turf almost looks like it was professionally installed, and you've obviously invested quite a bit into that sprinkler system. Kudos!
{shrug} “It’s only a model”, but thanks anyhow.
You explain it better than Perry did. You should have been on the stage.
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