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Chris Christie is getting ripped for his 'insane' comment on vaccinations
Business Insider ^ | February 2, 2015 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 02/02/2015 12:54:35 PM PST by EveningStar

Liberals, conservatives, and almost everybody in between are hammering New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) after he defended parents' "choice" to not vaccinate their kids against the measles.

"It's more important what you think as a parent than what you think as a public official," Christie said Monday when asked about recent measles outbreaks in the US, according to The New York Times. "I also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well. So that's the balance that the government has to decide."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 2016election; antivacc; antivaxxers; chrischristie; christie; election2016; measles; newjersey; newjerseyfatman; vaccinations; vaccines
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Democrats tell Chris Christie to 'shut up before people actually get hurt'
1 posted on 02/02/2015 12:54:35 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Stay in NJ fat boy, you’re wasting your time taking your clown show on the road.


2 posted on 02/02/2015 1:00:21 PM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: EveningStar
The only choice RATS believe U.S. Citizens should have is whether or not they should murder Innocent babies. The rest of the decisions should be left up to government.
3 posted on 02/02/2015 1:01:51 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: Beagle8U

Stupid just went to seed when that fat boy opened his piehole..


4 posted on 02/02/2015 1:03:43 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: EveningStar

Christie has the unfortunate ‘talent’ of coming out Hells Bells on the wrong side of many issues. I still don’t expect him to get the nomination.

Maybe Mitt will ever so subtly deflate the Beautiful Balloon of Chris Christie’s Campaign, as a way to finally get even for Sandy Hook. Look for Mitt to be smiling as he engineers the intricate machinery of sabotage, (long overdue!).


5 posted on 02/02/2015 1:04:14 PM PST by lee martell
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To: EveningStar

I’m not a fan of Christie but on this he is right.


6 posted on 02/02/2015 1:05:22 PM PST by marron
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To: EveningStar
So that's the balance that the government has to decide...

Shows fatso's outlook on what the essence of government is. A top-down approach is it is "government" deciding the balance. The notion is foreign to his Rotundance that the people create govt and give it some power, reluctantly, to the State and even less to the federal govt, to pass and execute law.

7 posted on 02/02/2015 1:07:34 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: EveningStar

I can’t stand Krispy Kreme, but there is nothing wrong with what he said here.


8 posted on 02/02/2015 1:09:23 PM PST by wolfman23601
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To: wolfman23601
......but there is nothing wrong with what he said here.

... just wait a minute. Now that he is "slimmin," he should be able to jam the brogans in the pie hole much more frequently!

9 posted on 02/02/2015 1:15:02 PM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: EveningStar

He is wrong, as are other proponents of vaccinations. Their beliefs are based on one study that turned out to be outright fraud.

Imagine if parents had their kids avoid the polio and smallpox vaccines.

This is one issue where one side is using logic, while the other is using fairy dust.


10 posted on 02/02/2015 1:15:41 PM PST by sakic
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To: marron

Interesting how so many Conservatives say they stand for freedom and liberty.

Except on the subject of having control over what goes into your veins. Or your child’s.


11 posted on 02/02/2015 1:23:10 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EveningStar
Vaccinations, as with every other issue, needs to be decided on a case by case basis.

Yes, there are vaccinations absolutely necessary for the general welfare that should be administered as they were in the past.

But is it impossible to imagine that pharmaceutical companies in collusion with the government might try to foist some unnecessary and perhaps even dangerous drug on the market? It would be foolish to believe it impossible.

I do not trust the feds as far as I can throw them.

12 posted on 02/02/2015 1:26:38 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Same


13 posted on 02/02/2015 1:27:48 PM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: EveningStar

Yup. These comments are not insane.

Kind of figured that might be the case


14 posted on 02/02/2015 1:28:09 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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To: sakic
He is wrong, as are other proponents of vaccinations.

I am going to assume you meant OPPONENTS there.

For some of us, it is not an either/or question. There are dozens of vaccines. Smallpox and polio is one type. Chicken pox is another. One might be fine with a tetanus shot, but want the rubella shot which was developed from a baby aborted for the purpose. One might be fine with ALL of them, but not nine at a time for a kid under two. There is a lot more in between than most people are willing to talk about.
15 posted on 02/02/2015 1:29:06 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: EveningStar

Campaign time. Anybody who threatens the leftist establishment will be destroyed


16 posted on 02/02/2015 1:30:34 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

So true-kids belong to parents, not the government-and parents don’t belong to the government either. It is a parent’s choice whether or not to vaccinate, whether you agree or disagree. I did have my child vaccinated, but I did not let her get all the doses in the short time that many parents do/did-it just didn’t seem safe for a little kid under 3.


17 posted on 02/02/2015 1:32:13 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: sakic

I agree. If you’re living off the grid and never coming into contact w/ other humans...fine...don’t get your shots.

If you’re like most of the rest of us and are out in public...get your shots. Talk to YOUR Doc...do some research ... do all of that ... then get your gosh darn shots.


18 posted on 02/02/2015 1:32:31 PM PST by conservaKate (Just how will the GOP elite mangle 2016?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Interesting how so many Conservatives say they stand for freedom and liberty”

Not on FR dude. Its vaccine central here. I mean they get really upset if you diss on their vaccines. LOL!

Now if there was a vaccine for Liberalism I might get excited.


19 posted on 02/02/2015 1:37:29 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: EveningStar

Children of God for Life’s list of vaccines made from aborted baby: http://www.cogforlife.org/vaccineListOrigFormat.pdf


20 posted on 02/02/2015 1:43:40 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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