So, at a time when Michele “Krazy” Bachmann could have scored real measurable points against the Reverend Ricky Perry in their Republican Tea Party (GOTP) duel for the evangelical anointing, Krazy takes a perfectly good foil to stick Perry with – the forced vaccination of teen age girls in Texas – and bends it into a pretzel by claiming the vaccine can cause mental retardation?
Are you kidding me?
On a subject that is one of the soft underbellies of Reverend Ricky’s campaign, Bachmann – as a woman, and mother – could have skewered him with it, but instead she goes right off through the looking glass into Krazyland.
Reverend Ricky – who swears to oppose “big” government interfering with little folk’s lives – signed an executive order in Texas requiring young girls to get a Gardasil vaccine to combat sexually transmitted disease that could lead to cervical cancer.
“I’m a mom of three children,” Krazy mewed. “And to have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat out wrong. That should never be done.”
To his credit – as much as I hate to say it – Perry has conceded he mishandled the issue, but while appearing on FOX PAC Krazy attempted to launch a blitzkrieg against him and came up looking dimmer than usual. “I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate,” she said.
“She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine that injection and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.”
Back in the real world, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that out of 35 million doses of Gardasil distributed in the US only about 0.05 per cent have led to any side effects. No instance of mental retardation was reported.
As a conservative, you know your political world has taken a wrong turn when Rush Limbaugh, says you’ve screwed up, “Michele Bachmann, she might have blown it today. Well, not blown it but she might have jumped the shark today – if she’d have just left it alone on this vaccination thing from last night.”
Someone needs to tell El Rushbo that Krazy jumped the shark a long time ago, and she did it in a train with square wheels going round the bend. Bachmann just can’t keep from saying obtuse things; somewhere someone is writing “Politics for Dummies” and her picture is on the front cover.
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