Look, Michele Bachmann was never going to be the Republican presidential nominee anyway. Surely even she knew that. Her political celebrity begins and ends with her wide-eyed beauty and penchant for making absurd, faith-based pronouncements on cable television.
OK, so Bachmann won a meaningless straw poll in Ames, Iowa -- where old duffers get a free lunch and a bus ride to the state fair in exchange for their votes. Fellow no-hope candidate Ron Paul finished a close second. Even so, the unanimity with which GOP savants turned against the fair Michelle after she got in Texas Gov. Rick Perry's face demonstrated how consent gets manufactured on the pseudo-populist Republican right.
She ought to have known better than to have heeded this column. "If Michele Bachmann can't make an issue of (Perry's) ill-fated there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach.executive order requiring sixth-grade Texas girls to be vaccinated against sexually transmitted diseases," I'd written about a month ago,Save on kidney stone and fittings, "she's got no business running."
The Texas governor's political misstep was made-to-order for any self-styled Christian conservative. Ordinarily, it'd be easy to agree with former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, writing in the Washington Post: "If Republican presidential candidates want to debate sexual health and hygiene, it would be nice if they displayed more collective knowledge and judgment than your average eighth-grade family-life class."
It would also be easy,Our oil painting reproduction was down for about an hour and a half, ordinarily, to agree with Perry himself in a 2007 statement to Texas Monthly, where he explained that his motive was to protect women against a potentially fatal form of cervical cancer.
"We instigated, with HPV, a national debate, and I think appropriately," Perry told the magazine. "As a matter of fact, the more I know about this disease, the more I know that we are absolutely, unequivocally correct." He added that Texas Medicaid spends $175 million per year on cancer treatments and hysterectomies.
Ah, but nothing's ordinary where sexuality is concerned. Never mind that sexual intercourse comes close to being a human universal -- ponder THAT next time you're meandering through Wal-Mart -- nobody's eager to popularize the practice among 12-year-old girls. Social conservatives resent the government taking over a solemn parental responsibility.
Or, as Bachmann said during the recent CNN/Tea Party debate, "To have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat-out wrong."
Public health experts say waiting any longer risks being too late. Even so, Perry acknowledges he should have asked the legislature.
Things got tricky for the Texas governor when Bachmann brought up payola. "The drug company gave thousands of dollars in political donations to the governor," Bachmann said. "And this is just flat-out wrong."
She flat likes that phrase.
"The company was Merck, and it was a $5,000 contribution that I had received from them," Perry said with bemused condescension. "I raise about $30 million. And if you're saying that I can be bought for $5,000, I'm offended."
"Exactly what IS your price?" Bachmann might have asked. Merck had actually given Perry $30,000. Not to mention that his former chief of staff and other aides had remunerative ties to the pharmaceutical company lobbying to have its Gardasil vaccine adopted nationally.
But that barely scratches the surface. Even in Texas's pay-to-play political culture, Perry's brazenness is a wonder to behold. His campaign donations from contributors seeking everything from nuclear waste dump permits to seats on the Texas A&M board reach into the tens of millions.
"When you are trying to figure out Rick Perry,Traditional China Porcelain tile claim to clean all the air in a room. you need to do two things," Denton (TX) Record-Chronicle's Mike Trimble advised out-of-state reporters. "Find the lowest common denominator and follow the money."
Unfortunately, Bachmann got distracted by the innocent little girl issue, turning it into a characteristic blunder. On the "Today" show, she told about a crying mother who approached her after the debate.
"She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. It can have very dangerous side effects ...This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their oil painting supplies . This is the very real concern."
OK, so Bachmann won a meaningless straw poll in Ames, Iowa -- where old duffers get a free lunch and a bus ride to the state fair in exchange for their votes. Fellow no-hope candidate Ron Paul finished a close second. Even so, the unanimity with which GOP savants turned against the fair Michelle after she got in Texas Gov. Rick Perry's face demonstrated how consent gets manufactured on the pseudo-populist Republican right.
She ought to have known better than to have heeded this column. "If Michele Bachmann can't make an issue of (Perry's) ill-fated there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach.executive order requiring sixth-grade Texas girls to be vaccinated against sexually transmitted diseases," I'd written about a month ago,Save on kidney stone and fittings, "she's got no business running."
The Texas governor's political misstep was made-to-order for any self-styled Christian conservative. Ordinarily, it'd be easy to agree with former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, writing in the Washington Post: "If Republican presidential candidates want to debate sexual health and hygiene, it would be nice if they displayed more collective knowledge and judgment than your average eighth-grade family-life class."
It would also be easy,Our oil painting reproduction was down for about an hour and a half, ordinarily, to agree with Perry himself in a 2007 statement to Texas Monthly, where he explained that his motive was to protect women against a potentially fatal form of cervical cancer.
"We instigated, with HPV, a national debate, and I think appropriately," Perry told the magazine. "As a matter of fact, the more I know about this disease, the more I know that we are absolutely, unequivocally correct." He added that Texas Medicaid spends $175 million per year on cancer treatments and hysterectomies.
Ah, but nothing's ordinary where sexuality is concerned. Never mind that sexual intercourse comes close to being a human universal -- ponder THAT next time you're meandering through Wal-Mart -- nobody's eager to popularize the practice among 12-year-old girls. Social conservatives resent the government taking over a solemn parental responsibility.
Or, as Bachmann said during the recent CNN/Tea Party debate, "To have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat-out wrong."
Public health experts say waiting any longer risks being too late. Even so, Perry acknowledges he should have asked the legislature.
Things got tricky for the Texas governor when Bachmann brought up payola. "The drug company gave thousands of dollars in political donations to the governor," Bachmann said. "And this is just flat-out wrong."
She flat likes that phrase.
"The company was Merck, and it was a $5,000 contribution that I had received from them," Perry said with bemused condescension. "I raise about $30 million. And if you're saying that I can be bought for $5,000, I'm offended."
"Exactly what IS your price?" Bachmann might have asked. Merck had actually given Perry $30,000. Not to mention that his former chief of staff and other aides had remunerative ties to the pharmaceutical company lobbying to have its Gardasil vaccine adopted nationally.
But that barely scratches the surface. Even in Texas's pay-to-play political culture, Perry's brazenness is a wonder to behold. His campaign donations from contributors seeking everything from nuclear waste dump permits to seats on the Texas A&M board reach into the tens of millions.
"When you are trying to figure out Rick Perry,Traditional China Porcelain tile claim to clean all the air in a room. you need to do two things," Denton (TX) Record-Chronicle's Mike Trimble advised out-of-state reporters. "Find the lowest common denominator and follow the money."
Unfortunately, Bachmann got distracted by the innocent little girl issue, turning it into a characteristic blunder. On the "Today" show, she told about a crying mother who approached her after the debate.
"She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. It can have very dangerous side effects ...This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their oil painting supplies . This is the very real concern."
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