And for my money, Perry addressed this long before the debate. He was and has since been clear in his statement that he has changed his views about the issue. He didn't lie about his prior views or invite more of the already toxic press he gets about this... he was forthright and clear in his admission of error. Perry was succinct and consistent in his response and did this more than once.... so why Bachmann would want to throw away her chances berating him over this issue is really beyond me.
GOVERNOR PALIN: "I was governor of Alaska at the time that that issue came down,
and I told our health and human services department Alaska
was not going to mandate immunizations for our teenage daughters.
And there had to have been something to that whole issue
because it just didn't sound like Governor Perry. Governor Perry was,
you know, the proverbial anti-government type of maverick there in Texas,
and yet on this issue, he decided that he was going to know
better than a parent was going to know in terms of what the health care
or health benefit would be for their teenage daughters.
So I knew there was something to it."
Rick Perry was the 'mandator' who by his Executive Order
deemed chaste children to have injected into them
a poison with a risk (and a possible benefit beyond
the immediate lucrative one directly to
RINO Perry's Chief of Staff and others who bought Merck stock)
a substance they did not want and for which
informed consent was never taken or cared about.
====> Mandator Perry the RINO.
. Guard the Borders!! .... "Gard a sil?"
I don’t support Bachman for President, but this is a load of horse manure.
Perry imposed this extremely dangerous and harmfull requirement on innocent school children. It was a clear instance of crony capitalism, with numerous connections between him and the drug company. And he was furious when the legislature reversed it.
Maybe later he started saying that he was against it after he was for it, but that was only after the whole thing collapsed, and he probably had to pay back the money he got for imposing it. (No, I don’t know that last bit, but it fits the whole pattern of this crony insider deal.)
Perry is currently running as a brave conservative. But his record is that of an Establishment RINO. And that’s what he would be, once again, if he ever manages to get himself elected.