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Amid a hard fade in the polls and a struggle to remain in the 2012 spotlight, Michele Bachmann suddenly finds herself back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons — namely, her troubling habit of making misstatements and demonstrably false claims.
It’s a problem, former top staffers for the Minnesota congresswoman told POLITICO, that’s plagued her since she first arrived in Congress in 2007.
Three former senior aides to Bachmann painted a picture of a shoot-from-the-lip member who cavalierly makes assertions without knowing the facts — and would occasionally make them up to suit her needs.
The issue was serious enough, according to the accounts of two former staffers in Bachmann’s House office, that when new senior aides arrived to work for her, they were warned: Fact-check everything she says.
“She says stuff without thinking there’s going to be any repercussions,” one aide said. “I think she can get away with that in Congress. I don’t think that you can as president.”
Bachmann’s suggestion this week that the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation — widely debunked by the medical community and repudiated by the left and the right — fits the pattern. In an attempt to capitalize on a point she had scored against Texas Gov. Rick Perry in Monday’s debate, the congresswoman sought to advance her argument afterwards with an apparently groundless exaggeration that now threatens her credibility.
And yet Bachmann has refused to back down from her assertion that the Gardasil vaccine is dangerous. “I didn’t make any statements that would indicate that I’m a doctor, I’m a scientist or that I’m making any conclusions about the drug one way or another,” she told reporters in California on Thursday.
Now that Ed Rollins has left her, she's doomed. Without a very strong hand guiding her every word, we can expect to hear even more misstatements from her.
What she did could be considered the same as yelling "fire" in a theater full of dimwits. You have to wonder how many young girls of TParty parents, won't get the vaccination? Consequently, how many will get Cervical Cancer?
What she did could be considered the same as yelling "fire" in a theater full of dimwits. You have to wonder how many young girls of TParty parents, won't get the vaccination? Consequently, how many will get Cervical Cancer?
This vaccine is not a gurantee against cervical cancer nor HPV, only a few types. Parents should read the research and the warning enclosure for the vaccine before deciding if they will have their children vaccinated. Preferably they would allow their children to be old enough to make that decision themselves since it has a very real possibility of affecting their fertility. Yet another reason "children" should not be active in sexual relations until they are old enough to live with the consequences.
Back to the thread topic. Bachmann is not yet ready for prime time, IMO. She needs to spend more time in the Congress learning.
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Every time i read about this, I think of Tree Man. Do a google image search for it, if you can stomach it, it's pretty gross. Prepare to feel sorrow for tree man. He can't fight off HPV infections. He looks like he has tree roots growing out of his arms and feet and his face is covered with warts.
This vaccine is not a gurantee against cervical cancer nor HPV, only a few types. Parents should read the research and the warning enclosure for the vaccine before deciding if they will have their children vaccinated. Preferably they would allow their children to be old enough to make that decision themselves since it has a very real possibility of affecting their fertility. Yet another reason "children" should not be active in sexual relations until they are old enough to live with the consequences.
Back to the thread topic. Bachmann is not yet ready for prime time, IMO. She needs to spend more time in the Congress learning.
Yes, only a few types that cause the majority of cervical cancer, sort of like polio vaccine only covers a few types of polio virus. There is no evidence that this vaccine affects anyone's fertility, that is bunk. Is that going to be the latest scare tactic of the anti-vaccine people?
She is out there. Big time. I can't understand the people that support her? Are they that gullible?
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