With each iteration of campaigning and debating, Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann melts down a little more, and in last nights debate, she hardly figured. <\/p>\n
But there was a little bit of action:<\/p>\n
Aside from the Perry-Romney duel, there was the unfinished business from the last debate of Rep. Michele Bachmann and the HPV vaccine. Baier asked the Minnesota congresswoman the inevitable question: did she still stand by her comment that a woman who approached her after the last debate had told her a daughter became “mentally retarded” after getting the HPV vaccine?<\/p>\n
Further, did she stand by her comment that the vaccine was dangerous even after medical authorities uniformly refuted her claim and called the congresswoman perilous to public health?<\/p>\n
Bachmann said don’t shoot the messenger, then quickly pivoted to an attack on Perry’s 2006 executive order that required 12-year old girls in Texas to receive the vaccine.<\/p>\n
REP. BACHMANN: Well, first, I didn’t make that claim, nor did I make that statement. Immediately after the debate, a mother came up to me, and she was visibly shaken and heartbroken because of what her daughter had gone through, and so I only related what her story was.<\/p>\n
But here’s the real issue. Governor Perry mandated a health care decision on all 12-year-old little girls in the state of Texas…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Perry defended himself by saying he had been lobbied on the issue by a 41-year old woman who had cervical cancer. According to reports, however, he met with the woman after he signed the executive order.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So, apparently, none of them care much about honest or accuracy. <\/p>\n
I predict that she’ll withdraw from the race within 14 days, though I really want her to stay in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With each iteration of campaigning and debating, Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann melts down a little more, and in last nights debate, she hardly figured. But there was a little bit of action: Aside from the Perry-Romney duel, there was the unfinished business from the last debate of Rep. Michele Bachmann and the HPV vaccine. Baier asked … Continue reading Bachmann at the Debate<\/span>