Washington (CNN) - While she wasn't on stage at Monday night's debate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin jumped in on the attacks against Texas Gov. Rick Perry for signing a state law that required inoculation against a sexually-transmitted disease for sixth-grade girls.
"You have to go up against the big guns," Palin said on FOX News Monday, praising GOP candidate Michele Bachmann for bringing up the issue at the debate. "And they will try to destroy you, when you call them out on the mistakes that they have made."
In 2007 Perry signed off on a law that mandated vaccines for HPV, a virus that can cause cervical cancer. While, parents had the option of opting out for religious reasons, the measure was still considered an unpopular law in the Lone Star State.
Bachmann confronted Perry at the "CNN Tea Party Republican Debate" in Tampa, saying the Texas governor's former chief of staff later went to work for a drug company that made the vaccine.
“There was a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this mandate,” Bachmann said, adding that Perry received contributions from the company.
Perry countered saying he had received $5,000.
"I raised $30 million," Perry said. "If you think I can be bought for $5,000, then I'm offended," Perry said.
Firing back with a shot that spurred wide applause in the audience, Bachmann said: "Well, I'm offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn't have a choice."
After the debate, Palin called Perry's ties with the drug company "crony capitalism."
"True reform and fighting the corruption and fighting the crony capitalism is a tough thing to do within your own party," Palin said. "Believe me I know that. I have the bumps and bruises to prove it."
Palin, who paints herself as a "maverick," added that she's been fighting corruption for the last 20 years at the local and state level, in addition to her time campaigning as the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee.
But this wasn't the first time Palin went after Perry. Speaking on Labor Day weekend at a major tea party event in Iowa, Palin hinted at the Texas governor–though she didn't use his name–while speaking about government corruption.
“Some GOP candidates, they also raise mammoth amounts of cash,” she said. “We need ask them, too: What, if anything, do their donors expect from their investments? We need to know this because our country can’t afford more trillion-dollar thank you notes to campaign backers.”
Palin hasn't thrown her hat in the ring for president, despite making big appearances this summer at events in key battleground states. She said Monday night she's still discussing a potential White House bid with her family.
In the meantime, Palin said she's "getting a kick out of" staying in the spotlight and weighing in on the 2012 prospects.
"I'm getting a kick of getting out there, making a speech, making some statement about things that must be discussed and then the very next day watching some of the candidates get out there and discuss what it was we just talked about," Palin said.
–CNN's Peter Hamby and Steve Brusk contributed to this report.
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I guess Perry is saying he can be bought it will just take a lot more than $5,000. Nice.
Here she is again! Ms Palin, just go away!
Sister Sarah. You must watch what you say. You will be endorsing Perry as soon as you realize you are not running.
from the article:
"I raised $30 million," Perry said. "If you think I can be bought for $5,000, then I'm offended," Perry said.
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Too bad Bachmann didn't do her homework on the campaign contributions. Reports this morning say that Perry grossly understated the amount of the contributions. They range from $30k since the law was signed, to well over $200k over the course of the past decade. Bachmann wasn't thorough. She didn't plan for a counter move, or response from Perry. Say it, mission accomplished. Her lack of preperation made Perry look good.
This would mean something if she were somebody.
Oh Boy, let the shark frenzy begin!! LOL
Here goes Palin again talking about big guns. When something comes out of her mouth it always has to include some kind of violence. Some day this will all come back to her.
If you're going to continue to sling accusations and criticism, get in the race – otherwise be quiet. If you for a minute think Rick Perry is going to beat President Obama then you are living in some fool's paradise. I think the majority of the country is too smart to turn loose any of you TP's on our democracy.
Gov. Palin has evolved into the consciousness of the Republican party. She talks about "crony capitolism", and the next day the candidates are mimmicking her. She sets the agenda. She is in front of the narrative. Her critics are left with personal attacks, like the ones you can read in the comment section her.
Until Palin declares her candidacy for President, the media should ignore her, completely.
Who cares what she thinks? She's obviously not up for the challenge of the debates, or she would have declared by now. Smart money is on her declaring one way or another AFTER the majority of the debates have happened.
Until she declares, she has ZERO right to comment in any way about how the candidates have handled themselves in debates that she refuses to participate in.
Fighting corruption for 20 years? Don't make me laugh.
She used campaign funds to take her family on their bus tour vacation thinly veiled as a campaign, even when she hasn't declared her candidacy.
She's the last person to champion anti corruption.
I'm sorry, Sarah who?
In the meantime, Palin said she "getting a kick out of" staying in the spotlight and weighing in on the 2012 prospects.
well that pretty much sums her up!
When Sarah talks, CNN will be there to print it. Please stop. She is irrelevant and only a few care what she has to say. Look at her track record. She joined the McCain campaign when he had a 10 point lead. In 3 weeks he was down 10 points. She quit on Alaska because she needed money, putting her personal needs above the state which according to her has a great view of Russia. She is most importantly unelectable. Please stop giving her a forum. Lets all just ignore her. Maybe she will just go away.
I hope that perry tell the people how you put cross hairs on Mrs. Gifford head and caused her to get shot and the little girl to get killed seem to me you you didn"t give a dam about little girls or anybody silly sara.
It's always about guns and violence with her. Retreat/reload, crosshairs over political opponents. Quitter.
one of the reasons I think Palin is NOT in this race for the GOP nomination is that she can not be confrontational away from her FaceBook, Twitter and the protection of FoxNews. Plus she is so thin skinned I doubt if she could take an attack like Perry did. Palin can bark when she is away from her opponent, put her face to face with them and she shrinks like a violet.
@SEAL Team Alpha and Omega
Other than a nice rack, Palin has nothing
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I don't believe they are hers the recent shots of her in t shirt show that she's wearing padding. She's a fraud, nothing more, nothing less.
I pity the fools whom have given to her PAC.
So easy to sit out a debate (where your ignorance would be glaringly obvious) and then the next day read something your handlers wrote.
While I am not a fan of S. Palin, I must agree with her on this subject. NO One should have mandated for girls that young to take that shot. He did for the all mighty dollar.
you realize right that CNN is doing a story on a fox reporter? Because she's not a presidential candidate, or a governor, or really anything besides another talking head who works for a rival network. So why are you covering her? Is it a regular practice to do stories on other networks reporters? That just doesn't make sense. Perhaps you can blog about what shep smith thinks, or Brian Williams, or rachel maddow....
Further proof that the tea party will bring us back to the dark ages, they're completely against destroying a horrible disease that affects millions of women and causes cancer.
Speaking of Palin's "Big Guns" her's are nothing more that "Pop Guns" at this point in her so called political career. Go count your money, have Todd do the dishes, put your kids in school, prepare another snarky rant for all your C and D student fans out there and go back to Wasilla. Actually go further out -say to Moose Drop Junction or Bearberg......
I don't understand why the press keeps listening to this woman. The only reason she hasn't entered the race is because she hasn't got the brains to go without notes or a prescribed script. As long as she can go without having to face questions in a debate, the longer she looks good. Possibly she will throw her hat in with two days to go before the election.
Remember when Laugh In had the cast opening windows and giving one-liners? That's what reminds me of Sarah Palin. Like the bird in a Cu-cu clock.She makes a comment and then retrieves.
so you can maybe stop your child for getting cancer... buy getting a shot... come on sara ... perry was right on ... i dont think perry is nearly as radical as i once thought...we need a leader somewhere in the middle...
Not in the debate, but has to add her two cents... What a coward!
Sarah Palin our next great President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm, don't believe I see a wedding ring on her hand in that photo. What's up with that, trouble in paradise?
the United States attorney general need to investigate the perry
"... fighting the corruption and fighting the crony capitalism is a tough thing to do within your own party,"
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So you created an extension of your Party to accomodate said corruption and cronyism.
It is called the Tea Party, fully backed and funded by corrupt corporate capitalists like the Koch brothers whose intent it's been for some four decades now to infiltrate our government with their hand-chosen cronies (see Wisconsin Governor et al in government) and have said cronies propose and support legislation that is beneficial to them and people like them at the expense of the rest of US.
Your gall is awei-inspiring, much like your sub-par IQ Sarah.
In regards to the state-mandated vaccination, Bachmann was on point calling out Tricky Ricky on that one. Where were your Constipated, er, constitutionally trained Tea Partiers to put the brakes on such a travesty I wonder.
$5K contribution from that corporation my left foot Perry. Care to try again?
Until she decides to stand up there with the rest of them...........just shut up.
GSMITH
Sarah Palin our next great President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 13, 2011 11:11 am at 11:11 am |
PRESIDENT OF WHAT?
Her eminence is not just a maverick, she has ascended to the highest of the high "mavrickey". Oh Mighty Sarah, you are the one. Please run and deliver salvation to the American people. They need you more now than ever. Please whip out you flute and play it for it will solve all of America’s problems. Oh "Your Worship" the American people implore you.
Sarah for President! Sarah for President! Sarah for President!
Again another daily Palin story by CNN. No one cares and we still have to ask, Who is she sleeping with at CNN? All this coverage day after day, all this free PR, for someone who does not matter. What is going on at CNN?
Miss negativity strikes again. Palin once again reminds us what our current education system produces. She has no clue why it is important to protect young women from HPV. She doesn't stop to think about common sense approaches to problems because she has no common sense. She buries herself every time she opens her mouth, so she's no threat to anything in American politics. Let her keep making stupid statements like she does, it only makes her look that much more irrelevant.
I find it freightening that this is the best the GOP can offer. Do GOP candidates have to all be extreme? I thought Bush Sr. was a fairly well balanced "conservative", but this group seems like a bunch of crazies.
Once again, Caribou Barbie spouts her BS about a subject she knows nothing about. I used to think she was just narcissistic but the more crap I hear come from her pie-hole the more I'm convinced that she actually believes that someone out really cares about what she is saying. Wrong again Sarah. Just pack up the bus with your old man nad kids and go back up to the great white north and leave the campaigning to those who have the guts to commit themselves, instead of your tactic of wait till someone makes a statement and then run out and make some snarky, childish comment about it and then sneak away so noone can take a public potshot at you.
Cone on People! Please show that stupid doesn't last forever! This man is calling for the governors to appoint Senators, Congress to be able to overrule the Supreme Court and for Texas so secede from the Union! If you agree you are sicker than I thought!
Sarah Palin in a word = OPPORTUNIST.
What is the story about Pete and Repete. $arah Palin is not running for office. Why does CNN give so much space to a Fox guest commentator?
What can we expect next a guest colum by Rush. Get over $arah and focus on the canidates and the condition of this country.
"when you call them out on the mistakes that they have made."
OK. John McCain, you made a mistake. You should have left the quitta from wasilla alone. If ignorance is bliss, caribu barbie is one happy person.
Perry's policy included an Opt-Out. Since the majorty of Americans (cleary proven by looking at these postings) are idiots, Perry assumed (rightly so) that there would be a significant number of parents too lazy to respond to an "Opt-In"; and those that felt srongly about it could "Opt Out".
Reading comments by "Tad Pole" "Wasilla Willie" and "Anonymous" prove that Perry was correct.
Sarah, U r wrong. I usually respect ur views but on this one think before what u say!! Do the analysis of what Rick said, then speak otherwise u will look stupid just like Michelle Bach.
Ambulance-chaser, and she's not even a lawyer.
The AK Queen of corruption that was guilty of expense fraud and abuse of power of course wanted Bachman to talk about social issues because Bachmann is a complete failure on economic issues. Palins ego explodes and she gets a kick out making millions by doing very little and bringing up the most obvious and glaring issue that Perry could be attacked on. To bad no one was smart enough to take on the real issues like unemployment stats and all the stimulis money Perry used to create jobs and fix the mansion, but Republicans have never had the cajones to go after their ownwhen it comes to financial matters.
LOL. Od course Palin is a viable candidate even though she refuses to particiapte in a debate because she is unable to formulate coherent thought and speech, because when she has someone write it out for her to post on her twitter or when she has a script inside the friendly confines of the FOX alternative universe of "facts" she almost makes some kind of sense, sort of. Besides, she still getsthe attention she craves while pulling down a hefty salary from FOX. Real Presidential material.
when will this fool go away?
Oh lord, another rant written by someone else FOR HER.
Funny, one of the only things I liked about Perry was he was trying to help girls to not become cancer victims. The "mandate" has a parental opt out. Bachmann would have our sick & poor dying on the streets because they weren't responsible enough to get health care they can't afford. Or maybe, if they're good Christians, the church would take them in. Great plan!
If there was a vaccine for prostate cancer, wouldn't we want all boys to be inoculated. How do parents look their daughters in the eye and say I could have prevented your cervical cancer but I choose not to?
Is Palin giving time for the GOP/Tea Party presidential candidates to beat up and do damage to each other before making her announcement to run? If so, she is on FOX pay roll while being a stealth candidate. This should be considered a violation of political campaign laws.
Caribou Barbie can only make a quick entrance to throw in her two cent negative bashing comment and then she ducks out to avoid any reciprocating backlash. She doesn't want to join the race and compete against the candidates because she's too afraid to deal with anybody challenging her record and utter lack of intelligence. She's a great example of a calculating coward who is just in it for the money and fame. Go write another book and make another docudrama of your pathetic political life Caribou.
All this woman does is wait until somebody else makes a statement, then she jumps in with both feet. Why didn't she come out against what Perry had tried to do with the inoculations prior to now? She is a weak, loud-mouthed, money hungry piece of trash who is only delaying her announcement not to run, to scrap for every dollar she can get. She cares nothing about the state of Alaska and even less about the United States.
Palin is a no nothing. She has nothing to offer the country. After this election, she will be gone with the wind.
The invisible candidate is back. This is certainly a unique way of participating in the debates.......use Fox News and collect a paycheck from them. Not only has she duped a large number of angry voters; she has also duped Fox. That doesn't make Fox look too bright.
Palin is a coward. Either enter the race, or shutup!
Apparently CNN doesn't want me to tell $arah to either get in the race or shut up . . .
Most are venting from fear! What is there to fear from sarah regular american palin? Her comments at this time tell what a smart politician she really is; after the others have beat up on each other all will be so weakened that sarah will march right in and decimate the field. she will be an unbeatable force. This lady should be respected. If she was irrelevant all would have been quiet. You will notice how quickly the number of postings shot up whenever her name is just mentioned. She is either your hope or your angst.
What Perry got from the drug companies, is nothing like what Bush/Cheny got from the oil companies when he was in that same position. I don't think that Perry would start a war for them like Bush did, but you don't know for sure.
Sarah, once again a day late! All the other Monday morning quarterbacks have left the building...
Michelle Bachmann never lets truth stand in the way of a good soundbite. They did have a choice.
At least Mrs. Bachmann had guts to confront people. She is working in a real office. Mrs. Palin knows how to use her same senteneces over and over again and make money.
Oh please, tell me what else she has to say.
All I hear is the same old crap from these idiots that are so out of touch with this country that the only way they can be elected is by sucking up to the uneducated that have no idea what they even want and the rich just play these fools like a harp what is funny is that the only way they can get anybody to vote for them is just continue to say no to Obama on every bill that is put in front of them but what they fail to understand is that they are screwing themselves
Gee thanks McCain for infecting America with the Sarah Palin virus! Like it's companion affliction, ignorance, there is no short-term cure; now we have to endure it until it finally runs its course. And who will clean up the scum it leaves behind?
Is she going to run or not? If she is going to run, then let's ask her some questions. Otherwise she is just a bomb thrower that should just be ignored.
What does Non-presidential candidate Sarah have to say? Who cares?
Boy, I bet Sarah could teach Michelle a thing or two about "guns."
Honestly, we really have to ask ourselves, where did we go wrong as a country. Where did Republicans go wrong?
It isn't the "crony capitalism" or the supposed "lack of choice".. though opting out was allowed. Its the same old argument as ever. This will supposedly make girls have more sex, so it must be bad. And, yes, Bachmann.. lets preserve that choice.. the choice to get a communicable disease that can cause cancer in woman that is so widespread pretty much everyone has it, and which can be transmitted for a lifetime through either sex. I have HPV. You probably do, too, unless you are a virgin.
Know what's super funny? The fact that if the GOP and Jaberwocky Barbie blather about Parry's HPV vaccination mandate making some drug company rich, CNN reports the heck out of it....but when the Governor of FL and his GOP legislature pass a law to drug test social assistance recipients and the contract is given to a company in which that governor has a direct pecuniary interest (he signed his insterest over to his wife to hide it), CNN doesn't pick up on it and report it all by itself like any outift worthy of the name "journalists" would do. No no...much better to play he-said-she-said than do any research...that crap costs money.
The economy. None of these Republican candidates (and non-candidate Palin) have a plan to create jobs. They all rant and rave against Obama but none have put forth anything. Obama has a plan. It may not be perfect, but it is a plan. But the GOP will block any proposal he puts forth. They will never give in to any slight compromise. So, we are stuck in idle. we will go nowhere. Thank you GOP.
"Palin, who paints herself as a "maverick," added that she's been fighting corruption for the last 20 years ". Really?
She's gotta be at the top of the heap as being one of THE most corrupt GOPers.
On another note, while I don't endorse Perry, the HPV vaccination is a preventive measure and is a good idea from a health prevention aspect. This country needs a culture change in terms of health to one of prevention rather than treatment. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of care" is not just a trite little saying, it's smart medicine....which would explain why this escapes the likes of Bachmann and Palin and the idiots that follow them.
Palin's right up there with Glen Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, Dennis Miller,
Geraldo Rivera, Huckabee, Chris Matthews, Rush Limbaugh, Al
Sharpton, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Greta van Susteren
and all the other media bigmouths.
Run for office, you dweebs. Put up or shut up.
perry was offended when bachmann suggested he could be bought for 5000.
now we know he can be bought, but, he's not that cheap of a date.
Oh for a Palin & Bachmann ticket......America could realize the Tea Party dreams and become the laughing stock of the world.
Eventually no one bought pet rocks anymore. Then the realization set in as to how stupid people were to have bought them in the first place. Some guy laughed all the way to the bank knowing that suckers paid $10 for a rock in a fancy box. I wonder how long it will take those same fools that bought pet rocks to realize that that is exactly what Granny Sarah Scorpion here is?
OK. I'm missing something big time. This is not an issue of campaign financing or one-upping a candidate. This is about a group that thinks vaccinating a child against a growing deadly disease is a BAD THING? Are you kidding me??? We have the science to curb polio, measles, even chicken pox. So when we have a vaccine that will save many a young woman from cervical cancer by blocking HPV we disregard it? What the heck is wrong with this group of people who care so little about women's health and stand in judgment to the point they will let people die?
It is so funny how she always manages to miss the debates, but she is always the first one to chime in. Sarah, if you have so much to say after the fact, you should take your lame self on stage with the rest of them and face them like a big girl. No, you're more like the grade school kid who has to talk behind peoples back.
Surely this narcissistic nobody isn't relevant.Is she? Pity.
Typical $arah Palin. Stay on the sidelines, and lauch her rhetorical attacks from a safe distance without having to face anyone in real time. What a freaking coward. She is a pathetic disgrace to this country. CNN, in continuing to run a story based on anything she says, is a pathetic disgrace to the institution of journalism.
Who said it first Palin or Bachmann? You did your job well, Sarah, as the GOP battering ram! They send you out there to criticise every word Obama says and repeat the punch lines froim the GOP. It's over! They can fight for themselves now, or can't they be as mean or nasty as you? You won't run for president because it's a job for 1 person not a husband and wife, as was done in Alaska. I guess you could slip that part past people there, but as president, every word out of your mouth and move you make will be heard and watched. Don't do it or you'll be the first woman president to bei impeached!!
Not a fan of Perry... even less so with Palin. Families DID have the option to not participate in the inoculation program. Hoping they Republicants will smear each other to unelectable status.
Eight-debate and non were great. Just blowing hot air...!
Nothing like a sarah comment to make those suffering from saraphobia go berserk. By the way speaking of education who are more educated- republicans or democrats. Speaking of science who ended the shuttle program republicans or democrats. Speaking of dreams who is most likely to achieve the american dream a republican or a democrat. Who is calling for the elites to lead us republicans or democrats? We are an equal opportunity country.
Michelle Bachmann... standing up for your right to choose not to innoculate your children against a virus that causes cancer.
Prediction: Palin will not run for President. A) She'd be chewed up and spit out at any debate, she just isn't smart enough; B) Democrats and Independents don't like her at all; C) Almost 3/4 of the Republican Party doesn't want her to run; and D) Almost 2/3 of the Tea Party doesn't want her to run. She isn't nearly as well liked as she thinks she is and as those around her keep telling her she is.
If she does run, and I wouldn't put it past her, it will only prove how incredibly huge her ego is and she'll be embarrassed beyond belief. Of course, that may be the only thing that gets her to GO AWAY.
Palin is such a fraud. She even admitted last night that she is having fun throwing out comments while sitting on the sidelines. She needs to get in or shut up. Why her opinions are given so much merit is just beyond me.....especially here on CNN.
She'll never go away, McCain has unleashed this photo-opportunistic, soundbite-laden ego-maniac on the country and someone should go to Arizona and slap that old man.
Bachmann said: "Well, I'm offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn't have a choice."
Convenient how republicans want to give women and girls choices about their body ONLY in certain situations.
I wish people would get the facts straight. The shots are only with parent approval only, no one is being forced to get these shots. I don't care for either Palin or Perry, but I do care about the truth.
Funny that they support the involuntary inoculation of little girls for HPV, a virus that can cause cervical cancer, yet wish to deny the same treatments to grown women via the destruction of Planned Parenthood.
Michelle Bachmann... standing up for your right to choose not to innoculate your children against a virus that causes cancer.
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It used to be called personal freedom, something which is disappearing in this country faster than polite political debate thanks to the looney leftists and their forced government mandates.
In debating vp joe biden, palin equaled or surpassed him. She does not have to earn her credentials she did it at the highest level and won. All the others are green horns when compared to this maverick. The saraphobes are suffering from selective amnesia.
I'm confused. So being vaccinated against a disease that could cause cervical cancer is a BAD thing?
@clarke ~ which is why Bachmann's comment should be completely ignored. It won't be, because that's how the media in this country works and there are actually people out there who believe she scored points with her response, but there was an opt-out clause in Perry's executive order for those parents who didn't want their daughters innoculated. I'm not defending Perry nor am I defending the fact that he issued an executive order on what is, undoubtedly, a personal choice, I'm merely pointing out how candidates will lie through their teeth and say whatever's necessary to win votes.
I am no fan of Sarah Palin, but that doesn't mean that her statement against crony capitalism isn't correct. Government has gone to the highest bidder and Perry is just one more in a long line of politicians who have successfully fed from the money trough. It has to stop because it undermines our nation.
@As GM goes......... This was a Republican debate with Republican candidates talking about one of them mandating the HPV shot in his state, yet you criticize the "looney leftists" for restricting personal freedom? Did you watch the debate?
I have to admit she's very athletic... She can jump on a bandwagon faster than anyone I've ever seen...
CNN, please stop repeating the inconsequential nonsense this know-nothing keeps spewing.
Sarah Palin is waiting for all the debates to be over so they don't ask her questions she will not know how to answer
Oh great, here she goes!! Yeah, like she or Bachmann have never made mistakes in their political careers!!! Go away already.
here she goes again with her idiocy...and always referring to some sort of "armour" "gun" reference in her idiot speeches! her kind and the tea party make me sick! they don't scare be by no means, i say bring it on! but it makes me sick how these people hate so much.
"I'm getting a kick of getting out there, making a speech, making some statement about things that must be discussed and then the very next day watching some of the candidates get out there and discuss what it was we just talked about," Palin said.
The woman is entirely delusional. Does she really think she matters? Truly amazing.....but in a sad way....
Sarah, please go away. Its bad enough we have true candidates of the same party ripping each other apart as Obama sits back and laughs his way to 4 more years. But to have someone who quit office talk about corruption?? Please go away. If the republicans really want to win, quit tearing each other down and come up with some specifics on what changes they would make. This generalization crap is worthless. SS reform. Great, but what specifically. Tax reform. Super. What about it specifically. Come prepared. Any idiot such as Obama get talk in generality.
First of all, I wish Palin would just go away; she's not running; there isn't an instrument smallst enough to measure my interest in her opinion. Second, I would love to see the media fact check the statements made by policiticains during these debates and then present a report card to them. There's going to be lot's of statements made and lately some GOP members haven't felt bound to stick to facts. Reporting out on what is said and whether it's the truth, misleading or downright BS would allow people to get a better sense of how trusty worthy a candidate is.
Does the phrase "three ring circus" mean anything? I don't see anyone on the GOP side that I would vote for. Obama may not be perfect and God know he had a mess to clean up from Bush, but he has my vote!
Because immunizing girls against venereal cancer is wrong?
Palin's been running since 2008 in a desperate attempt to become relevant. Of course, she can't stand up and debate the others being totally devoid of knowledge and intelligence. So, be prepared....the moronic Palin is going to announce a third party campaign. Apart from everything else, Palin clearly is the most repulsive, grotesque reactionary to seek high office since Spiro Agnew.
What she meant to say is she gets a kick out making so much money without having to do anything but spew forth her venomous ranting and raving about everyone else. Everything she did in her short reign as governor was to avenge anyone that challenged her unethical rule. And talk about being bought!
she doesn't want to jump in the race right now because she wants to avoid as much debates as she can. she's not smart enough to debate Perry, Romney or Paul. Heck! I even think Herman Cain is smarter than her.
And you think that the Koch brothers won't expect something in return from the little teaparty puppets they are financing in the upcoming elections?
Sarah should just shut up. She won't jump into the race until most of the debates are over. She knows she can't debate due to her inability to think fast. She has no answers only hatred.
she just loves to hear herself talk ...
I wish this moron would just go away and the media would stop reporting on her stupidity. She's an embarrassment to this country.
Sarah either needs to get in the race, or shut up. We don't need celebrities piping up at every little thing. It puts the focus on them rather than the issue at hand. Since we already have a lot of those in the administration, we certainly don't need more.
Sarah is waging a non-campaign campaign! Thank you, CNN, for promptly addressing our need to not know what Palin thinks!
I think I've figured out Palin's strategy. She now recognizes that when she answers questions in real time, her answers make her sound like an uneducated goob. By staying "officially" out of the race, she can listen to the questions that are posed to candidates and then answer them in her own good time, after her handlers have had a chance to write her answers, er, I mean, vet her answers for her before she speaks.
I'm confused. So being vaccinated against a disease that could cause cervical cancer is a BAD thing?
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When the government FORCES you to do it it is!!! I don't get it with the looney left. They feel fine with a women's right to choice to kill their baby but also feel fine with denying a young woman's right to decide what she must get injected into her body. Absolutely nothing seems to be off limits unless they deem it so using their contorted logic.
Abortion is the killing of the unborn. In india over 500 million females are aborted(killed before birth). in europe they are currently working on a law that will stop parents knowing the gender (sex) of the child before birth. Why, abortion. Parents (mothers) sometimes choose which child should be aborted, (killed before birth) die and which should be born according to their whim.
Some people play the violin to entertain them self while other play to inform the American people on double flip flop from a pack of candidate from social security, to taxes. Mr McCain lot his slot to the lady of Alaska now retired to the desert. Bless.
It seems that this so-called "idiot" from a small school in Idaho has been able to steer the conversation for quite some time. "Crony Capitalism" is a hot topic that nobody wants to address but key to corruption in our political system until Sarah jumps in. Republicans and Deomocrats are both targets for this honest politician – of which we are quite short of at the time. I like it when the candidates have to stand up and be counted. Regardless of whether they may have made mistakes in the past – I want them to be accountable and explain where they are now.
@think again – this is the same imbecile who made women who were raped in AK pay for their rape kit. This woman is a nobody. she is NOT a politician and she knows she can't win.
She is a faux news ugly talking head. I think Anderson Cooper is hot but I wouldn't want to know everything he doex s or says every single day and he IS a proven journalist not an arse like this screeching witch!!!
Ahh yes, ignorance and stupidity calling the shots. Vacinnations have not been proved to be a cause for any of the bad stuff that people want to attribute to them. Yet the first charlatan that comes around and says"I have the answer to all your problems" people that don't think glom on to those answers. We haven't moved past the snake oil salesmen just moved on in time. Sarah Palin is one of those along with Michell Bachman. They believe in something that has no basis in fact and try to sell to enyone who will listen as the real thing. But they know no better because they are ignorant and are incapable of thinking and analysizing beyond their own tiny world.
Palin- shut up.
you will jump on any bandwagon to get that face in print
Don't worry about STD's or intercourse before marriage because abstinence works. Unless you're Palin's daughter.
I love how Palin gets to talk, without having to answer any questions.
The other candidates should be calling her out for this charade.
Will she, or wont she
The suspense is killing me..................
nope.
Her "big|guns" look pretty good in that picture, but all I can see is a conspiracy to whomp Perry (and rightfully so) to have Bachmann reemerge after a bit of a beating in the straw polls. I must say that after all the other candidates did to get up on that stage does upstage Perry's recent bid to get a spot among them. Interesting how his popularity sank everyone elses' boats with the GOP/Bagger voters. Someone noted that his skeletons would hop out of the closet. What is interesting is that numbskulls don't believe what the Texans who know him were telling them. Go Sarah! (not really though).
Sarah Palin is setting the debate and issues agenda in the GOP now - despite not even being in the race, as her identification of "crony capitalism" and entrenched politicians who make fortunes while in elected office because of such crony capitalism overshadowed the CNN debate. This is a cutting edge and brave political vision. Her speech in Indianola laid down the outlines of this, and I expect her to flesh these points out further as she prepares to announce her candidacy in the coming weeks.
Go Sarah! Sarah Palin in 2012 for the saving of our nation!
*** PLEASE READ WHAT THIS TEA BAGGER JUST SAID ***
When the government FORCES you to do it it is!!! I don't get it with the looney left. They feel fine with a women's right to choice to kill their baby but also feel fine with denying a young woman's right to decide what she must get injected into her body. Absolutely nothing seems to be off limits unless they deem it so using their contorted logic
Perry made these injections mandatory, this poster is complaining that dems are denying her the right
of what to put in her body ????
The decision of what to put into a 6 year old girls body
should be with the parents, yet this moron is blaming Dems
when GOP – Perry did this.
Just freaking amazing.
So she gets the luxury of debating them after the fact with no questions and no rebuttals? How fitting, the faux candidate on Faux News!
Me, I'm a progressive – I'm a 'socialist' – I think a vaccine 'program' like Perry's for HPV is 'essential'
However, I don't think many Tea Party conservatives would agree with me......................................
When the government FORCES you to do it it is!!! I don't get it with the looney left.
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Hey, why stop there... why not grab a handgun, walk into the nearest liquor store, and take everything in the cash register. If the cops catch you, you can always claim that they are intruding on your personal freedom. Contored logic indeed.
Me! Me! Me! It's all about me. I do this, I do that, etc...WOW!
Well, Sarah what would you take to the Whitehouse? Lots of mirrors Wolf! Not for me mind you, but for others to admire me from every angle. See how I think of others?
I would bet $5 that she doesn't even know what the word "maverick" means. I think the Southwestern definition of the word describes her best:
maverick: (noun) an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
OMG! Here we go again. Sarah Palin have nothing better to do. Just stay home and take care of your daughters before they become teenage mom like their big sister.
"When the government FORCES you to do it it is!!! I don't get it with the looney left. They feel fine with a women's right to choice to kill their baby but also feel fine with denying a young woman's right to decide what she must get injected into her body. Absolutely nothing seems to be off limits unless they deem it so using their contorted logic."
There was an opt-out provision. Nobody had to get the vaccine who didn't really want it. Sooo, ummmm, take a deep breath and a valium.
Hey AsGMblahblahblah, are you so ignorant that you don't even know which party Perry is seeking the nomination from? How does "the looney left" have anything whatsoever to do with an executive order by Gov. Perry? Do you maybe kind of understand why we think that you funhouse patriots are more than a little unhinged?
@AlaskaPalin
"In debating vp joe biden, palin equaled or surpassed him."
Uh? Honey, she couldn't even remember his name. She kept calling him "O'Biden". It's a fact, do a "google" on it.
Palin you're SOOOO right about everything and KNOW everything. Please save America. Please?? I mean, pretty please???
Oh that's right, you're afraid of the "lamestream media" or whatever catch phrase you're trying to TM this week.
Big guns, lot's of lead, but no gun powder!!
Enough said !!
Sara Pain has nothing to offer the citzens of the USA !!
Where is Palin wedding ring inthe photo above? Is she cheating on her husband?
Let's all be honest. The reason she's still around and get's any media attention is because of one simple reason. She's HOT! I mean just look @ that picture, that's a MILF right there. Wouldn't vote for her but I would ..................
To the man/woman that posts on this blog as "Four and the Door" -
I have read about 2 months worth of your posts. I vote Republican. Please stop posting.
You are all over the map and to anyone paying attention, your logic is convoluted & twisted. You may think you are helping to make the case but you are in fact hurting things.
Recommend you change your moniker and cut down on the volume. Don`t argue every point – the D`s are correct – - a few times.
Too bad there's no vaccine for stupidity, eh, Sarah?
Perrys price just went up sarah.
Why no wedding ring ?
Looking for a new playmate ?
I hear that Perry plays for the other team.
Maybe Michelle can pray it away.
I love it when the Palin haters go on a rant. It makes you look ....stooopid. Bachmann is right government should not make anyone take a vaccine unless they want to. It should be opt in not op out.. Does anyone remember the thalidomide problem in the 1960's. While it wasn't mandated it was an approved drug used for morning sickness in pregnant women. Unfortunately, it caused severe birth defects. The HPV vaccine while it had clinical trials was risky and everyone knew it. While it may well turn out to be a good drug...but only time will tell.
If I recall correctly, and I do, the study that suggested vaccines cause autism was completely discredited. I guess you can't tell evolution-denying republicans that.
POLL: Do you believe Michele Bachmann's claims that vaccines make people retarded?
Vote: http://www.wepolls.com/p/2486516
One more thing...When you see a commercial for a drug they usually have a disclaimer with a long list of side effects and risks. Many worse than the underlying illness.
Another milestone for Obama. 2.6 million people in the last year fell into poverty and the poverty rate has reched 15.1%. You have to go back to 1983 to find a higher poverty rate. That was the year before Reagan's reforms took hold giving us a generation of prosperity and lower poverty rates. Less than 3 years of Obama and his extreme left wing borrow and spend policies and that has all been undone. Thanks Obama, thanks a whole heckuva lot!
I am always amused when someone describes Sarah Palin as part of some American 'Taliban'. As if the real Taliban would tolerate someone like Sarah Palin in any public position or position of influence. In his diaries Osama Bin Laden described Palin as a 'slut'. I wonder what the real taliban would think of Palin's resistance to more restrictive liquor laws in Alaska. Or–better–the mind boggles at wht the real Taliban would think of Governor Palin's vetoing of the attempt by the Alaskan legislature to rescind the acquired rights of homosexual couples in Alaska. The Taliban would stone Sarah Palin to death–just like the American (and European) left would like to do, as this tread attests.
Rick Perry bought by for 5,000 what an insult ?
Governor Rick Perry, who received the next largest chunk of Enron money !
Gov. George W. Bush
$238,000
Gov. Rick Perry
$187,000
A.G. John Cornyn
$158,000
Aug 20, 2010 – Not only did Perry approve of giving funds to Countrywide, he actually ... Rick Perry solicited a $250,000 donation !
Rick Perry solicited a $250,00 donation from BP to help restore the governor’s mansion.
Sarah's got big guns? She must have bought them.
So making sure young girls/women have some measure of protection against cervical cancer is bad, but making rape victims pay for their own rape kits is good... Will someone please stop giving this shrill, intellectually lazy, media addicted harpy airtime. She ran Wasilla into the ground, she quit half way through her term as governor, and she doesn't do her homework in American History. Please stop enabling her media addiction.
Palin is boring and a non-issue. Is CNN going to post every person's opinions in this country? What Palin thinks, or more accurately doesn't think, is completely irrelevant.
Here we go with the IDIOT again. Palin needs to go home and go hunting from a chopper. Maybe she can take Cheney with her. It's bound to be a safe hunting trip for her as long as no one gives him a loaded gun.
I believe our elections should be publicly funded and that no individual can contribute to a campaign. Each candidate, after receiving a certain number of signatures, should get equal airtime to every other candidate, and run-off elections should produce two candidates who will then face off in the general election. Political parties should also not exist. Money and organizations aimed at the attainment of power are what I believe is ruining America. Those are just my thoughts.
What I think is interesting, is that the evangelical religious fanatics are against the vaccine, which is designed to prevent cervical cancer, which is caused by a sexually transmitted disease. First, that doesn't mean that these young girls are going to go out and have sex because they have been innolulated. And, it will help prevent it even if they don't have sex until they are married. However, what I find ironic, is that it's the evangelical teenagers that are MORE likely to have out of wedlock children and abortions. Aethists statistically have less abortions and less out of wedlock children (and aethiests also have less divorce, extra marital affairs, drug probelms, etc). The reason....aethists tend to be more highly educated. EDUCATION leads to making better life decisions, not religion.
Wow, when you are drifting toward total irrelevance, have a photo op in a tight sweater!
I don't think the point was whether the HPV vaccine was a good idea. The point was it made people opt out instead of opt in. It was forced upon them. Also, this scheme appears to have been cooked up by Merck with the help of Perry. Whether he received 5000 or 5,000,000 it still is telling of his pay to play politics.
@GM, if you refrain from language like "the looney left" more people might take into consideration what you have to say. Your language is very divisive. You should attempt to build bridges if you wish to connect with people rather than make people angry.
The actual purchase price for Slick Rick was $30,000 offered as a "campaign contribution".
Once again Republicans have been successful in taking everyone away from the real problems, JOBS and the ECONOMY and getting everyone to argue about a social issue.
What is it with these raging idiot morons?? The media just can't get enough of these vapid, shallow, ignorant Republican fools! It's as if this country has come down to sucking up to the political Neanerthal, the moron with the weirdest sound bite, the hate-monger with the loudest shrill!!! It could very well be a good idea to just dump the Constitution and go back to the Articles of Confederation, Oh, I forgot, most Americans have no idea what the Articles of Confederation are; actually, most Americans have no clue about what the Constitution contains. So, let's all just read MAD magazines, keep eating sugar and lard, and live in country and western songs.
the religious right will eat eachother ALIVE (but in the name of Jesus)
Sarah Palin would not even enter a debate unless she could do it on FaceBook, Twitter, via SarahPac, or from the protection of her little brother Sean Hannity's show. She is NOT for confronting those she throws her barbs at. But I do have to admit I enjoy reading the Palin posts here not only from the ones that despise her but from the ones that defend her as well.
Who cares what this know-nothing, harpy has to say (notice I didn't say what she thinks)?
As long as the parents have a choice, I have no issues with vaccinating for this disease. I would prefer that they went with an "opt-in" instead of an "opt-out" method. Some of you may not agree with the choices other people make, but last I checked this is still the United States of America. We still have a choice and freedom to live our lives.
And one more thing: Stop posting comments saying Palin is irrelevant every time CNN posts an article on her. It makes no sense to say she's irrelevant, when some of you take time out of your day to post a stupid comment about her.
Oh please, not her again. When will this moron shut up?
As Glenn pointed out earlier "As GM goes (formerly know as Democrat Class Warfare)", did you watch the debate. Better yet do you even know what they are talking about regarding the HPV vaccination......obvouisly not you idiot, Gov. Perry is they one who made it mandatory, you know, your new Tea Party God, it wasn't lefties, moderates etc, it was the crazy taliban Republican Gov of Texas.......GOT IT MORON! So repeating the lie does not make it true, no mater if you change your name or not.
This vacine stuff is just a tiny part of Perry cronyism. He's nothing but a hog at the trough. Do your research folks and you won't want this clown anywhere near the white house. I'd certainly hate to see him do what he did to TX to the whole country.
BTW, who actually still cares what Ms Palin thinks? Give it up, quit giving her media attention, she doesn't deserve it.
So the great one does not like Perry .... hmm. I bet the majority of the racist, nazi , terrorist, middle-class-old-folks-for-making the-rich-even more rich (i.e the Tea Party) like him just fine.
The GOP is rapidly becoming crazy. How can they criticize a measure to innoculate children? They understand that innoculations for children are a good thing, right?
Forcing a young girl to be inoculated for the sole purpose of getting payoff money from a drug company is interesting. Yet the Republicans balk at the healthcare bill that requires everyone to have at least the most basic of care. So which is it? Is Perry wrong because he is getting a kickback, or are the Democrats for doing the same thing? I believe that the $5,000 contrbution estimate was just a tad low given the amount the company is making, so I'll have to give this round to Bush 3.0 aka Perry. But yes, Caaribou Barbie needs to get on the campaign officially, or go back to her RV and shut up.
It's comments like this that make me think that she will run. Why else is she attacking the current GOP frontrunner? Oh, and concerning the shots, parents DO have a choice to opt-out of the shot for their child, although I don't see why they would opt-out, it'll prevent a horrifiying disease, and the shot has no reported side effects. I'm not a Perry supporter, far from it, but I have to support this mandate, disease prevention is very important, and is actually ALOT less expensive than waiting for the person to get the disease and THEN get treatment for it
Let me be clear here, I do not like Perry and would never vote for him. But, signing that law was the one thing he did that I agreed with. Why is that so much worse than State and/or Federal mandates for other vaccines? Please, this is just more BS religious crusading. Period.
As they say, Sarah, defecate or decommode regarding running for president. Stop playing the sidelines, jump in the ring
Palin is the ultimate mistake in this lineup. She makes more mistakes and twists the facts more than anyone!
P.S. those girls and their parents have a choice. They can opt out. So all your arguments are dead. Go back to school.
I feel so bad for the liberals in here. Poor things don't know who to defend or what to do. They rushed to the praise of Barbara Bush, Karl Rove, and Kathleen Parker when they attacked Palin. Now, Perry is the frontrunner, Obama is barely hanging onto 40% approval, and some of them are defending what Perry did and some are defending Sarah. They don't know what to do.
Little do they know Sarah has led them by the collar for three years and now she's closed the gate and is merely letting them play off their leash for a while.
Hold on everyone, have you notice that Sarah Palin has AWAYS had something to say "good or bad" when one of the other candidate makes a statement, But did I miss somthing? Mrs. Palin has offically declare she is running for office or just running her mouth. Sarah Palin can't form her own opinion to save her life but her she is the master of taken someone else statement for her own use. Hey Sarah what are you waiting for "Can't stomp with the BIG DOGS"
Unless she's actually participating in the debate, she should keep her cowardly mouth shut.
Her strategy is to sit back and let the others damage each other while keeping her obvious shortcomings out of the limelight. If she thinks she can enter in the 11th hour as some sort of savior she is sadly mistaken - par for the course for the quitter. Neither Mitt nor Rick quit, Palin.
CNN – Sarah Palin – Blog Posters – Analysis for this Article
0% are about "actual issues" that Sarah has specifically written and spoken about in just the last month, despite "all" have been reviewed in the major publications and news sources: NYTimes, LATimes, Washington Post, CNN, CBS, etc.
2% are unintelligible rants hard to follow the purpose of the poster
3% are Positive (when allowed by CNN censors/moderators) about her views on issues and values. What everyone “should be” talking about.
10% are statements of "abject denial" that "borders on delusion” about simple facts regarding her political positions and and how long she has been doing them.
20% are Claims she doesn't know what she's talking about (even though the article is about what she is famous for, exposing crony criminal capitalist and government officials in her own party)
25% are desirous of taking away Palins 1st Amendment Rights and flat out Censorship with calls for her to shut up, etc..
40% are garden variety teenage Adolescent insults
The is par for the course in 90% of all Liberal Media websites like CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, "all" printed papers, "all" but 1 TV sources.
I got your big gun right here Sarah
Just like Saran Palin the only time that she say anything Is when they give her something to Complain about, but you never heard of her Idea. Because she don't have anything. The best thing for this woman to do Is just keep her mouth close at all time and just go away. Far ,Far , Far away.
Personally, I think a clear distinction needs to be made. I think government should step in on medical cases where contagion is an issue. If parents want to let their kids eat asbetos, the federal government shouldn't interfere. The Local Government on the other hand should put that kid into foster care and arrest the parents.
If diseases can be spread, the state and federal government has the responsibility to step in and protect the nation from irresponsible people and businesses. It's a matter of national security, not any different than if terrorists unleashed a plague that spread from person to person.(I really hope nobody is stupid enough to suggest getting a terminal disease is better than having the same disease spread by violent extremist.)
On the other hand, if it's not communicable and won't spread via contact with others, the state and federal government should just let those people deal with the natural consequences of their own actions. Of course at the local level, it might do well to protect children from bad parents.
Thats my word, take it or leave it. If you value life, obviously you should support any government body that tries to keep children alive. if you value liberty and your freedom to choose, then i guess you can complain all you want. If you claim to value both, then you need to figure out which one takes precedent over the other and stick to your guns. principles aren't principles if you change them on a case to case basis.
CNN why do you report what Palin says? Nobody cares what she thinks. It is a waste of typing and web page space. You give her more coverage than Fox News. What's up with that?
More narcissistic rage. This woman can't get enough attention. She decides to not attend, and now she's mad because other people were getting attention when she wasn't.
Why doesn't Palin have her wedding ring on?
cracks me up when i see posts/comments from right wingers calling us lefties "loons"....take a look in the mirror, you tea partiers and republicans are the biggest nut jobs ON THE PLANET..and i'm including Al Qaeda!
Someone needs to let Jaberwocky Barbie know that the saying is "put your money where your mouth is" NOT "run your mouth where the money is."
You can say what you're gonna say about Sarah Palin , but she is absolutely gorgeous . And so is Michelle Bachman . I envy both of their husbands , I mean I am virtually green . Plus they are both smarter than the average liberal .
Exactly why, CNN, do you continue to cover a non-candidate - especially one who has a long history of lies, distortions and outright stupidty? Sarah Palin's opinion is utterly useless. She is a mouthpiece only for her own aggrandizement and profit. She'll say anything, misquote anything, twist anything, for a price. She's anti-science, anti-history, anti-consitiution, anti-poor, anti-unemployed, anti-destitute. She, along with most of the Teabagger crowd would prefer America and most Americans fail, than prosper. She has put the big zero in NO!
So how come Palin and her dumb cronies are up in arms over a vaccine for HPV which can cause cervicle cancer, but aren't up in arms over circumcism? It's ok to butcher a babies penis but not ok to give a child a drug that will help prevent cancer? Seriously?
It's the beginning of the end for Sarah. By the end of the month she will have to decide whether to run for POTUS. If she doesn't run, she becomes irrelevant, and no amount of yelling "look at me" will change that. If she does run, she'll get eaten alive. Either way, she's on the bus to Dan Quayle territory.
Quote: "And they will try to destroy you, when you call them out on the mistakes that they have made."
Or, you could be like Sarah – and just say: "That's GOTTCHA' journlaism!" – right quitter pants?
BTW – As GM goes......i can tell you've NEVER adopted an unwanted baby – so just sit down and be quiet....right next to the other hypocrites screaming about babies being aborted – but then whine when asked to help provide helath care for them.....you should be so proud of yourself!
Coming from a woman who had women pay for their own rape kits back in Alaska...Just Wonderful!
Ms PAlin get in the race or shut up. As for the action of Gov.Perry he saw a way to prevent a problem. Right solution probably not but he tried .
She's just angry because she didn't think of this scam when she was Governor of Alaska!
"I'm getting a kick of getting out there, making a speech, making some statement about things that must be discussed and then the very next day watching some of the candidates get out there and discuss what it was we just talked about," Palin said.
I don't have a palinese translator nearby, but is she saying that she just likes jerkin' people around?
why the in fighting, we have a common goal and the kids are fighting, get a grip and play against obama not against yourselves and why not ask bachman about her connection with gays and why not ask palin about hmmmm playing around, maybe the nuts dont fall far from the trees.
comments are not pre-screened before they post ?
I have to agree with her on this one – and no, lightning didn't strike me. Perry's actions were well paid for first of all, since the word is it wasn't $5,000, it was $30,000. But this goes even deeper. It's the perfect example of Republicans preaching smaller government yet wanting to be in your bedrooms and doctors' offices. The hypocrisy is stunning.
Sarah , are you going to bark little dog (and hide behind facebook like a coward), or are you going to bite (actually announce your candidacy and be held accountable for what you say).
Sarah Palin keeps taking money away from the bigot white trash who support her.
Here comes Palin again,she always jumps on the band wagon after it starts rolling.let Bachmann have her moment. She is righta bout that,let her shine for a moment Palin.I bet shes gonna try to steal that point from Bachmann.Just go away.Demms will be ready for who every runs.And another thing I'm sick of the good old boy from Georgia big mouth G. (The cheater)
Ive said it before and Ill say it again. Palin is the groupie. She follows the candidates around and takes shots when everyone else does. Either throw your hat in the ring or go away.
There should be a state mandated vacine against Sarah Palin & her political ilk.
I didn't care much about Perry before, but now that Palin doesn't like him, I am starting to have second thoughts. The way I see it, if you do the opposite of what Sarah would do, you would be right about 90% of the time. Her opinion is really important to me, it really helps narrow down my choices.
So you should be able to have a choice about a shot but not a choice about a pregnancy?!?!?!?
ONE MORON supporting ANOTHER MORON! Palin supporting Bachmann!
Palin won't ever make it as a candidate as she is too abrasive and over the top. As much as I dislike her, she seems to have found her true calling at being a thorn in the side of many other candidates. She does provoke questions and issues, but rarely offers any productive suggestions or solution.
It is not necessarily a religous reason to not want this HPV vaccine. It is big government forcing something and in bed with Big Pharma. This so called vaccine is really another poison. And I love the ones that stand behind the opt-out. They make it hard as hades to do and try to show up at your childs school and give without any kind of consent.
First, read the headline again: So, the big guns have been Pressed into the hands of the Pale Rider. Good. I travel much lighter. My aim is true.
Byrd
I honestly don't know what to think about this. On one hand, the vaccines are great. But then you have the money issue. But earlier the candidates were saying we need to give American companies (i.e. Merck) more money to boost the economy. The two women are against HPV vaccines, the man is for them, and they're all anti-science.
Let's just go ahead and say they've all lost credibility.
Perry did say that the religious could opt out, but Bachmann ignored this. Maybe she believed that the homeopaths should also be able to opt? Oh I forgot, homeopathy IS a religion.
I'm getting a kick of getting out there, making a speech, making some statement about things that must be discussed and then the very next day watching some of the candidates get out there and discuss what it was we just talked about," Palin said.
This says it all – it's so easy for her this way, no confrontation, no "gotcha's". very cowardly. AND egotistical!!!
Palin said she's "getting a kick out of" staying in the spotlight....hmmm...Can someone please tell this idiot that she is indeed in the spotlight? Geez!
Why is Sarah DITHERING ?
It is so rediculous that some who is taking contributions for fake run for the office of President would dare comment on politcal corruption.
Sarah Palin will not run. If she ran then she would have to open up the financial records to public review. It is more profitable for her to say she has not decided to run yet.
What is taking her so long to make a decision.
To all those that are still sending money STOP....do something good with that money ...like donate it to a responsible charity
can someone explain to me how you can oppose not dying a slow painful death from cancer is restricted by mainstream religion? i know theists are all wacky funsters void of any common sense, but i still want to give them a little more credit than that.
There is not much "rack" there. It is padding so let's not EVEN give her attention for that. I did notice the Penthouse key though. Aren't there any hot & SMART chicks out there?
"You can say what you're gonna say about Sarah Palin , but she is absolutely gorgeous . And so is Michelle Bachman ."
They'd be hawt if they were nice. As it is, their fundamentalist, rigid ideological conservative anti-altruism greed-is-good nincompoopery does more to make them ugly than would a sledgehammer to the face.
Perry and the other candidates have the professionalism to show up and speak in person, while Sarah hides in a radio studio and picks out vaccines to gripe about? I'd like to hit back with some tough questions of my own, "Where is her wedding ring?" and "Where were she and Bristol during sex ed class?" (which is also state mandated) Sarah provokes problems.
Palin sets the daily narrative. Perry is proud of killing 235 Texans. Perry can't be bought for only $5,000. Bachman and Perry think that global waming and evolution do not exist. Perry, Bachman and Romney wants to privatize SS and eliminate Medicare as we know it. Is this really the political dialogue in America? This is unbelievable how far from reality the rethugs have gone. Thankfully we have Barack to lead this country for another five years. Now if we could get rid of Cantor, McConnell, and Boehner we might be able to get this country headed in the right direction.
The level of discourse in these posts is atrocious. For those of you who claim to be "educated liberals" that believe everyone else is just an idiot redneck, your prose and insights simply do not exist in the comments posted today...or most of the time.
(1) Sarah Palin IS NOT GOING AWAY. She was the Vice Presidential Candidate last go around and her supporters LOVE HER. Sarah Palin and John McCain WON 60,000,000 VOTES in that election and 'delude yourself" from the facts of her huge positive impact to that contest for Republicans that still exists today.
(2) Sarah Palin IS a former MAYOR, GOVERNOR, 20 YEAR BUSINESS OWNER, and VERY SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGNER during the 2010 Midterms. She is tough, honest, and caring in a way no one else is. Watch her work a crowd and compare with everyone...especially Obumbles.
(3) Sarah Palin DESPITE HER LOOKS, has the most MODERN and COHESIVE MESSAGE in American Politics today, if you could at least focus less on her body and more on her comments . READ what she has written and said in the last month alone and nearly "all your specific issues and complaints on details" are addressed there. Choose to be ignorant and ignore them.
Sarah Palin has proven, time and again, to be electrifying beyond all the other candidates combined. She has spent nothing to consistently be ranked 3rd in ALL polls, and 1st and 2nd in others; California and North Carolina to name a few. She has spent NOTHING compared to all the rest. They have spent MILLIONS and will suffer a serious punch in the wallet the day she declares because she will suck up the oxygen from "all the candidates" due to the reality that she "is a Republican Rock Star Conservative"
She has a message that affects BOTH PARTIES and ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS.......the system is rigged by both parties.
This woman quit as Governor of Alaska to become a professional entertainer. Why do some people still think she is going to somehow become smart overnight?
Despite running her big mouth, Palin has no issues with Bachmann running a clinic to convert gays to straight, for a price. I thought Bachmann was more idiotic than Palin, but they seem to be running neck and neck for most annoying, stupid cow.
@ Founders 1791:
You have actually wasted your time trying to break down the statistical makeup of responses to stories about Sarah Palin: Why? What are you trying to prove, except your own equally biased opinion in favor of the the ex-governor? What has she done to deserve you wasting your time in a fruitless exercise of conservative rage at coverage of her by the " lamestream media"?
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Bachmann said: "Well, I'm offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn't have a choice."
Convenient how republicans want to give women and girls choices about their body ONLY in certain situations.
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Amazing how hypocritical they are. Just like Slick mentioned he'd err on the side of life (except for Cameron Todd Willingham, but CNN can't get into that, that would be investigative journalism). The applause for letting the hypothetical 30 y.o. man die because of no insurance; clapping for 234 executions in TX. Compassionate conservatism at its best, all while they'll hide behind their religion.
Or in this case, finding out how people respond first, then trying to steal the show by painting herself as a supporter of whatever it was that got the loudest cheers and an opponent of what got the loudest jeers. How about getting up on stage Sarah and showing us what you're not made of? Anyone can Monday morning quarterback. That doesn't make you executive material.
So so so sick of this less than zero.
Everyone that is not a left wing progressive liberal dumocrat should keep the cross hairs on the libs and locked and loaded, libs are a menace to society and very dangerous.
@Founders 1791 –
Sarah Palin was a horrible mayor – left Wasilla in more debt than before she was mayor; as Governor she quit on the good people who put her in office. She quit to go on the talk circuit to make the big bucks. Yep, she's all talk and no action and the one's listenening to her talk – her "admirers" are about as intelligent as the rocks in my backyard.
How convenient for Palin to judge everyone and everything from the sidelines. She'll probably jump in AFTER the debates are done so she doesn't have to make even more of an idiot of herself (if that's possible) on the national stage, but boy, would that be fun to watch when she gets in! They're gonna have a field day with her! Go, Sarah, Go! This country needs a good comedy show and we'll all bust a gut laughing while watching her get ripped to shreds.....even the teabaggers will eventually disown her! No, Sarah, No!
WHY is this dim witted, quitter half term governor and goofy right-wing fanatic reality TV personality taken seriously by CNN? The dingbat is a joke and the laughing stock of the nation. Try to keep up. We're so over her.
Get nekkid Palin
TheRealTomPaine,
First, I did it because I happen to be a Small Business Owner, since 1982, in Software Development and compiling statistics and formatting them into something relevant is what I do.
Second, It helps to provide what a "serious blogger" needs to expect as a return on effort to post her in the first place. Believe it or not, more than half of the time, at this site alone the "moderators/censors" will not allow "Conservative/Republican Comments". I have documented this fact thoroughly and it's not just here but in "most' of the standard liberal news sites.
Third, I answer all those reason, quite succinctly, in my other post here done at 03:47 pm
As a long time Small Business Owner, I am fed up with both parties for the same reason: corruption to their core. It's so bad that many on both sides will look you in the face and "rationalize it" into anything that it is not.
Only Sarah Palin "took the risk" of giving up a $100+K job, and her career, when she uncovered corruption in the "establishment" up in Alaska and she had "the courage" to do something about it. Many people went to jail for what she exposed.
Honesty and Courage is sorely lacking throughout Local, State, and Federal Government in American and Sarah Palin CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, versus these current clowns talking all the time.
"You can say what you're gonna say about Sarah Palin , but she is absolutely gorgeous . And so is Michelle Bachman ."
It is not so much that Republican women are attractive as much as it is that Democratic women are just plain ugly.
Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly goes all the way to the bone.
Poor Sarah. Her handlers and speech writers finally give her something to say to stomp on Ricky-boy, and what do we do? We stomp on the self-righteous egomaniac. Hey, Sarah, how about all of your Sarah-Pac contributors? What do they expect? By the way, how is that special-needs child of yours? You know – the one you conveniently forgot about when a joke about mental retardation was made by a Republican Comedian at your last personal appearance? You know, the same type of joke you held your kid up in protest against when a comment was made by a Democrat.
By the way, does Roger give you a bonus check whenever you appear in CNN?
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Palin is a no nothing. She has nothing to offer the country. After this election, she will be gone with the wind.
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Think again....she will be around for the next several years and perhaps beyond. She will continue to attack whomever is President, be it a Democrat or Republican. She'll manage to keep herself in the spotlight with speeches, books, etc. I'd be willing to bet she isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Sarah Palin would rather take pot shots from the safety of the sidelines than get into the race and join the debates. Why? Because every person up there has forgotten more than she has even known...They would destroy her and make her the laughing stock of the country (oh wait... that has already happened). And it's compounded even more when you realize that some of those up there are as dumb as rocks, yet they are still smarter than she'll ever be. PLEASE.... JUST IGNORE HER.. We don't need to hear what she has to say!!!!
There was an opt-out provision. Nobody had to get the vaccine who didn't really want it. Sooo, ummmm, take a deep breath and a valium.
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Personal choice dunce! People that want to OPT IN can get it. Why the heck is the government sticking their noses in what gets injected in our kids?! This is a parental decision. Courts should have blocked this travesty and huge destruction of personal liberty. But our courts have been taken over by liberal scum that think the government owns us and everything we possess.
You morons who make these slanderous remarks about Palin are so stupid your like a catfish all mouth with no body. No one out here with half a brain takes you imbeciles seriously. You will definitely talk out the other side of your mouth when she announces her candidacy. BUT EVEN IF SHE DON'T I CAN NAME FOUR TO THE GOP WHO WILL LANDSLIDE THE TERRIOST FROM NIGERIA. IF HE DOES MANAGE TO GET BY HE WILL BE IMPEACHED WITHIN 6 MONTHS. TRUE PATRIOTS ARE GONNA PUT SO MUCH PRESSURE ON HIM AND CONGRESS SOMETHING WILL HAVE TO GIVE. IT WILL BE OBAMA
Sad that the only thing Perry has ever done correctly and with a benefit to public health has to be tainted by a bribe. It's strange that the right-wing sees vaccinations as something evil. What about all of the other childhood vaccines? I suppose if anarchy is your goal, doing away with any benefits of science and medicine are a logical step. They could simply move to Somalia – no vaccines, lots of guns, low taxes, no environmental controls – Republican heaven!
Founders 1791
She has a message that affects BOTH PARTIES and ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS
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Sarah Palin only speaks for Conservative White Christian Republicans who bastardize the faith and call their stateside false fabrication the word of God. And she also speaks for Tea Partiers who think Jesus was an American non-union carpenter. In many cases, one in the same.
Baby Palin.... if you don't like Perry, why don't you make an announcement to race for the GOP presidential nomination now? Your talk is worthless crappy one.
@Founders 1791
My apologies. You are the first person I have met on this site who attempts to answer with something other than insults and raw emotion. I don't agree with your accessment of Palin, but you are at least intellectually honest.
It is amazing that someone with sooo much easy money as Sarah Palin still seizes every opportunity to reveal her insecurity by squealing "Hey, look at meeeee!!!!!"
"For those of you who claim to be "educated liberals" that believe everyone else is just an idiot redneck,"
On behalf of those educated liberals...and I feel safe claiming I speak on their behalf in this...we respectfully make that relinquishing that belief contingent upon the rest of you ceasing to behave in a manner that proves it accurate.
Does Palin hate all kids except her own? She's against the innoculations, she's against promoting exercise, she's against making sure that school lunch programs provide balanced nutrition . . . didn't Hansel and Gretel meet up withe her?
@field1stsgt...a true patriot is knowledgeable, educated, votes, and is well informed on the subject.
Obama's ancestry is Kenyan and surprise he was born in Hawaii. This has been proven so many times over. Why? Because people with a half a brain can't seem to grasp the truth. It has cost taxpayers millions because of this.
Now think about this, could Obama get security clearance (to take the oath of office) from the multiple security departments (secret service, fbi, etc...) if he was not a U.S. citizen? Don't you think that if he was not a U.S. citizen, the gop would have found out before he took the oath? Hilary Clinton could not find the smoking gun either.
And remember when newt and the gop spent over $70M in getting Clinton impeached for his adultery (and newt along with other gopers were guilty of the same thing)? Well, that's when the terrorists were making plans to attack us. For reals! Do some research.
If she is soooooo great at challenging the big guns why doesn she jump off the sidelines talking and get in the mix also......because her counter gop candidates would eat her dumb ass for lunch...
@THunter99 – she only hates her kids because a good mother, a caring mother wouldn't do any of what she has done to her kids or put them through.
Does anyone know what they have done with Trig? I would like for somebody to ask her where is he? We have not seen him for months!!!
Palin should get her family on birth control with their record.
RE: Governor Perry's Executive order in '08 for the Cervical Cancer Vaccine. Correct me if I'm wrong. But one of the GOP's mantras is that they object to BIG GOVERMENT involvement in people's personal lives. Talk about a contradiction!!!
Palin jumps on the ban-wagon. Nothing to offer on her own.
Can someone please muzzle this pig in lipstick
The Real Tom Paine
My apologies. You are the first person I have met on this site who attempts to answer with something other than insults and raw emotion. I don't agree with your accessment of Palin, but you are at least intellectually honest.
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Thanks for a rare bit of "civil discourse"........
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/09/13/sarah-palins-alaska-took-federal-funds-to-increase-access-to-gardasil/
Sarah Palin’s Alaska Took Federal Funds to Increase Access to Gardasil
Sarah, the sneaky dog is back. She sits back and waits for her opponents to talk about anything .... then she jumps in a criticizes them .... safely away from the fray. She is the dog letting the touch guys fight over the bone ..... then she jumps in an steals whatever is in sight that she perceives is worthwhile. Sarah's comment that she has fought corruption for 20 years is a lie or maybe her math is as bad as her reading. Duh
ms family oriented missing her wedding band?
Can't even graduate on time, raise a semi-decent family and people worship her....
I give her husband credit..... He's Laying Low and counting the CASH........ Pimp of the Year !!! He'll be at the Playa's Ball this year.........
She doesn't have the guts to debate herself though, she just critisizes others, while she runs from the questions
Sarah Palin needs to just fade away..........shes irrevelant.
Palin hasn't thrown her hat in the ring for president, despite making big appearances this summer at events in key battleground states. She said Monday night she's still discussing a potential White House bid with her family.
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Now THAT is hilarious!! How long does she have to talk to the Hillbillies?
As promiscuous as her daughter was, you'd think that she'd be in favor of anything to prevent STDs.
She is terrified to debate. Besides, her daughter spilled the beans 6 weeks ago....Sarah made up her mind a long time ago, remember, on the fishing boat, although except for photo ops she hasn't set foot on a boat in years. She must lay awake at night wondering how to break it too her fans at CP4, that she isn't going to run, terrified to do it. Terrified to run, terrified to debate, terrified to tell them she isn't running. lol.
I KNEW Palin was getting annoyed at having been elbowed out of the news cycle.
As the old saying goes,"We've alreacy established what Perry is. We're just haggling about the price."
Ironic since her daughter had premarital sex, palin should just keep her mouth shut!
Bravo, Founders 1791! Finally...finally a voice of reason on the Ticker who can actually get their comments posted! I apparently have been banned for months...I can't get a single comment on these boards...despite my attempts to call out Sniffit for exactly what he/she is...a Bully. An educated bully hiding behind a dictionary and thesaurus tongue...spewing comment after comment of hateful banter to anyone who disagrees. Thank you for your comments here today, Sniffit! You've shown your true colors again. Thank you Tom Paine...I don't agree with your comments but can appreciate the civility you usually bring. And thank you CNN. For once again refusing to post my comment but being ok with posting 4 comments from Sniffit, 3 from YouIdiot! 1 from "Hugh Heffner" suggesting Palin take her clothes off and 1 from Seal Team suggesting that Palin has a nice rack. You have become such a credible site for politcal chat!
coward. Go hide behind your facebook or twitter. at least these candidates can look each other in the eyes and debate. Palin is spineless and full of it. and one day her violent rhetoric will come back to haunt her. lead, follow or get out the way (and shut the hell up)
And what do you say about the Kock Bros., Palin? Don't they support your TeaBanger whiners? Go grab your crayons and color; that's more your speed.
She loves attention. I believe Levi over Palin and Bristol. Palin go back to bed you quitter.
Umm, I'm confused. Are Palin and Bachman now saying they believe that women should have the right to choose what happens to their bodies, free from government mandate? Because they weren't saying that before.
Whoops....typo, meant "Koch" Bros. Freudian slip?
This woman is like my ex brother-in-law. You can always count on her to be on the wrong side and say the wrong thing. This is a public health issue and the governor's support was right. I don't care if they gave him $5,000. Better than if he took money to squash the bill. It is a public health benefit. Wake up people. Why does anyone listen to her anyway. Let's ask Dr. Gupta what he thinks instead, okay?
I CANNOT STAND THIS WOMAN...that being said, kudos to her and an equally annoying Michelle Bachmann for taking egomaniac Rick Perry down a notch.
Does Bachmann want choice?
I'd like to slam Palin....I bet she likes it rough...
The HPV vaccine is crucial, and while I hate to agree with Gov. Perry, it should be mandated, although I think the age ahould be younger. Abstinence-only programs do not work. All they teach children is don't take precautions (don't go on the pill, don't use condoms, etc.) People younger than 18 are going to have sex. We can't stop them, but we can protect from lifelong and potentially deadly consequences.
CNN believes that what this woman says or does is news. Well folks, it is not. She is not running for President, she continually shows up at gatherings which certainly is an attempt to have the limelight. Meantime, the candidates must move forward without criticizing her. CNN buys into this behavior.
Fox News loves the controversy thinking that it brings viewers to the network which may be paying her millions for a job she i not qualified for.
The politicians today think nothing of slamming each other all the time otherwise they cannot campaign.Just sit down and read what they say. Would you think this was a good thing if your own child were to act this way.
Ok so we have the opportunity to eradicate a terrible virus from America...those girls will probably be sexually active at some point and a silly shot could save them from cervical cancer! Let's take a step back, out of the Footloose bubble that half this country lives in, and make a positive change for once instead of bickering over stupid crap like this.
The vaccine works pretty well, and no, vaccinating 12-year-olds doesn't cause them to have sex (Bristol Palin was an "abstainer" and she still got herself pregnant as a unmarried teenager and then dropped out of high school).
However, vaccines aren't free, so we have to be careful about choosing which vaccines will be required and which will be optional.
By the way, HPV also causes anal, rectal and oral cancer in men, so if 12-year-old girls get the vaccine, then 12-year-old boys should also get the vaccine.
If I had a 12-year-old boy or girl, I'd give my kid the shot. But then again, I know a woman who had a hysterectomy in her 20's...after developing cervical cancer.
So a vaccine is designed to do humanity good and prevent everything from birth defects, infertility, the SPREAD of disease, cancer, and the loss of life in women as well as men and these women, Bachmann and Palin are against it??? What a crock! Do you know how much that shot usually costs? around $400 and unless Obamacare or Perry cover it, hardly anybody is going to fork over $400 in this economy.
I guess I just don't understand what the big hoop-la's about. If the vaccine keeps girls from getting cancer, even if it's much later in life, why is having them take it bad? How is it different than making kids take other vaccines before they go to school? Also, my understanding is that you didn't have to make your child take it. It wasn't mandatory. This seems like a lot of criticism over nothing.
Thus far, I believe Rick Perry to be the absolute worst GOP candidate. I think the comparisons between he and Bush are fair if not painfully obvious. We will not cure our Obama hangover with 4 more years of W. Let's give Ron Paul a shot.
I support the public distribution of vaccines by the government. Yes, I can appreciate all the ins and outs, ups and downs of who believes this or that about vaccinations, and, if you want to opt out for you and/or your family, so be it. If I have a chance to engage in preventive care for myself and my family, and, the government will provide it for free, then I'm going for it. I will certainly read up on the pros and cons of any vaccine and make my own final determination. This particular vaccination – HPV – appears, from what I have read, to be one of the good ones. It would cost approx $390 for the series of three shots or doses. Seems like getting for free isn't such a bad idea.
The politics is that the more conservative view is that any vaccination of this type will only serve to symbolize that it's okay to be sexually active, and, thus, any such policy must be defeated. Geez, approx 3,700 women die a year from cervical cancer, so, when someone brainstorms and creates a possible solution, we should run and hide so that those who don't buy into the idea of abstinence as the only solution to eveything sexual will rot and die. I sometimes wonder why god created such awful, narrow-minded human beings.
Just one idiot slamming another idiot.
Sarah...its time to go home! You have more issues to deal within your family than what is going on in the world! Your words mean nothing and are a joke! Get off your high horse and go sit on the bridge to nowhere cause thats where your political career has gotten you!
Sarah Palin loves to give out criticism but can not take it back in return. You call her out on certain things she says and she is quick to play the VICTIM card. President Obama is bashed almost daily by the right, FoxNews 24/7 and even some on the left. He is really getting bashed without being able to defend himself from the 2012ers at the moment. I doubt seriously if Sarah Palin could take the critics as the POTUS has. At least not without FaceBook, Twitter and FoxNews to protect her.
Tina Fey, where are you?
I may need smelling salts after saying this...even to myself...but atta girl Sarah!! Gag!! Ugh!! Glad she's saying the truth about the newest Texas moron. On the other hand...I'm wondering if foxy ole Palin is playing this whole "I don't know YET if I'm running" thing a bit smart. This way she jumps in at the end AFTER all the debates so she never has to answer questions and try to make intellegent sounding statements outa that mouth. You betcha...super dooper idea. I don't think she has a snowballs chance in hell to win anything...and really just wish she'd keep raking in the millions and shut up. Don't even think she should be entitled to be called Governor as she was only there for a year before she quit to cash in.
Palin reminds me of WWE pro-wrestlers tag match...who's only time in the ring is to take a cheap shot at a downed opponent without the referee watching...then run away behind the ropes.
@Founders 1791, I agree that Palin is really good at energizing people. The problem is that she energizes the other side more than her own. Just look at what happened in Alaska with Joe Miller and Lisa Murkowski. It is the personal vendetta that Sarah has with Lisa what motivated Lisa to run in as a write-in candidate. Without Sarah, Lisa would never have ran and Joe would have won. So, you are right, Sarah does energize people and that is why 72% of Republicans don't want her to run while 90% of Democrats do. The woman is just too stupid to understand why that is. Run Sarah, run!
Palin can't stand not being the center of attention, she has to get into the news cycle. Needy much?
I commend Perry on this bill. The vaccine more importantly protects against 2 serotypes that cause cervical cancer, one of the leading causes of fatal cancer in women. Why wouldn't this be important? As doctors if we could actually PREVENT cancer why shouldn't we? Well done Mr. Perry.
OMG. She's running. I have to go now...falling off of chair....laughin...oooop!
I don't understand why the Republicans and Tea Party say the government has to stay out of people's lives and should not have mandated the vaccines in Texas but in the same breath they think it is OK to tell people who they can and cannot marry and think that a woman should not be able to make her own decisions about her own body. Kind of hypocritcal don't you think? Also if they are against big government then they and all their friends and relatives should never collect unemployment insurance, social security and use Medicare because they are government sponsored. Also, they should not let their governors take any stimulus or aid money if it is so horrible. Oh, I forgot. Perry used the Texas share of the stimulus money to pay down the debt without touching his emergency money and not using it for shovel ready jobs.
Ironic since Bristol probably should have gotten that vaccine, too
I love how people still find Sarah Palindrome relevant. The Tea Party should be granted the state of Alaska to implement their ideals and allow the rest of the world to function somewhat normally. Romney Perry for President. Tea Party candidates are the sure fire way to get a democrat re elected. They know it yet there're far too inamored with themselves to back down. Anti – Tea Party.Pro Republican
Palin is like some little kid that throws a rock then runs away ... ignore her.
“Some GOP candidates, they also raise mammoth amounts of cash,” she said. “We need ask them, too: What, if anything, do their donors expect from their investments? We need to know this because our country can’t afford more trillion-dollar thank you notes to campaign backers."
She would be no different from Perry when it comes to rewarding her large politcal donors with government funded contracts.
Perry apologized. He said he would not do it again and he came across as sincere. Under gov't controlled healthcare, there will be no opt-out option. So, if people want to repeal Obamacare, they need to look for a candidate who is committed to repealing it ........ ummmm, like Perry.
Sarah is just one or two buttons away from getting a male voter landslide.......
Yes, that's right teabaggers, fight amongst yourselves.
Why is she still talking? Last I checked she hadn't announced that she was running yet.
So, how about all the money sarah Palin is getting from her supporters? What is that called. In my view all the money politicians get is to do something for the donors. If we want to stop all this, we need a law that stops all campaign contributions and asks each citizen to contribute fixed amount of money, perhaps as part of taxes for the elections expenses. No more private contributions and hence no more gimmicks or apparency of any false pretenses.
Would the Congress pass such a legislation? I do not think so as this requires guts and working together that they have not shown. Also, this will put people like Sarah Palin out of business of preaching one thing and doing another.
It's pretty easy to blast somebody from the sidelines. She is waiting for the end of the debates to enter the race so that she won't have to answer any questions from "Lame Stream Media". What a tool.
I dont get it. Mandatory vaccine with an opt-out. What's the problem?
In a battle of wits, no one in the GOP wins, they're all unarmed.
Perry must be doing something right to be attacked by the rest of the crowd while o'blowzo gets a free pass destroying the country!
Please go away. Sarah, everyone knows you're not going to enter the race, you wouldn't stand a chance. It's beyond me how people still actually think this woman is by any means intelligent. If you can't even finish your term as gov. without resigning, you probably shouldn't be talking.
And shame on CNN for even posting the insanely idiotic comments from someone who has to read them off her own hand. I thought her 15 minutes in the spotlight would be done by now
Why does this bimbo still getting any press? She needs to sit down and shut-up already.
What a fraud palin is. Who are the people who idolize this person, but i hear charles manson gets more fan mail then any other prisoner at corcoran state prison.
This woman has ZERO credibility and ZERO relevance. She continues to throw bombs safely from the sidelines ... afraid to enter the race because she'd actually have to take a stand and follow it through to completion. As it stands now, she can say and do anything knowing she does not have to prove any of her statements. I used to feel sorry for her since she accepted the VP nomination without any preparation and was embarrassed. Now I know she didn't have the mental maturity to turn down her selection as a VP candidate knowing the position was way over her knowledge and skill set. She will not enter the race because the nation will again see clearly how ill prepared she is to be POTUS. Mrs Palin, please grow up and once and for all shut up!!!!
OK when will the Palinitus vaccine be ready...seems media has an oozing, festering, and swollen case that just will not go away.
Can you say polio and smallpox vaccine. Thanks god trash like palin and buckmann weren't around then
Since she is not running for office, Palin can say whatever she wants and not have to defend it. Paris Hilton should start making political comments as well.
We would love to hear from you Half Gov. Palin, but as a candidate, not as someone sitting on the sidelines throwing mud. Come on Half Gov. Palin, join in, make it official, otherwise keep your mouth shut and go away.
Perry defeats O in 2012. Anthony, that's the point I made earlier, Bachmann did NOT look Perry in the eye during her rebuttal, instead choosing to look at Wolf Blitzer. Any Presidential candidate wishing to be elected as Commander In Chief needs to be able to look at the "enemy" in the eye. As for the HPV vaccine, Bachmann is being disingenuous when she in fact did NOTHING about her own state's mandate of Hep B vaccine for children.
Sarah must be something special if the very mention of her name cause so many to become incoherent. If anyone does a careful analysis of abortion or homosexuality, what they entail, that person will most likely come to the conclusion that these Acts are evil. So to speak out in a learned and compassionate way against these evil acts must be good. Seeing evil and not standing against it is wrong. One must ask himself why are so many persons against these acts in the first place. The problem today is most poignant for the immorals are now legislating their immorality on the majority.
Palin talking to Bachman. And we have a story about that. Which shows just how much our media will do to get ratings, and just how bad the condition of our educational system has become. We have utterly failed to teach critical thinking. Probably so that PC thoughts can be injected unnoticed. We should hang our heads in shame. America was once good enough to recognize a crackpot and ignore it.
Ohhh, we're gettin' there, folks ... the day has almost arrived ... I can already hear Failin', " ... I've sat and watched and observed from the sidelines. And, quite frankly, I don't like what I see. I am compelled to throw my hat into the ring and run for president of the United States of America." (chirping crickets.)
This trick is so predictable.
Sarah....please go away. who cares what you say anyway?
There seems to be plenty of lawsuits over the health care mandate. Why has no Republican sued Texas for this mandate? Hmmmmm? Anyone? Seems to me the Republicans are in need of a new dictionary. It can start with the H's and hypocrite can be the first entry. They all embody that cowardly principle, but none of them seem to know the definition. I can't take anything any of them says with any sort of seriousness. They are all petty (insert your own derogatory name).
Do you remember when you were a kid and the neighborhood gang of kids had all kinds running around? There was always the kid everyone sort of ignored because no matter what that kid said, it rarely made sense or had anything to do with reality. That's Palin. She's noisy and nonsensical (you Tea Partiers can have someone look that word up for you). If she was a 50-year-old man, no one would be paying the least bit of attention to her. The only time this cheerleader makes sense is when, like any cheerleader, she's mouthing something someone else has written for her.
I'm pretty sure Palin approves of Bachmann's lying about the vaccines being even correlated, let alone causally related, to mental retardation (which would actually more accurately be described as brain damage, if it were brought about by an outside cause like a vaccine, for which assertion there is no evidence anyway.) This seems to be one common method of operation for the far-right wing: stoop as low as you need to to win, including lying (instances too numerous to mention), spying (Bachmann in the bushes outside some gay function), using public office as a fort from which to carry out personal vendettas (Palin's Troopergate), etc. It's a shame the right has become such a hot mess. The country deserves intelligent and vigorous debate from all sides – but, seriously, you regressive ultra-right wackaloons need to learn how to ground yourselves in reality. As it is, I observe that the most productive angle to take when looking for the fatal flaws of any Republican or Tea Party candidate, is to expect them to have done exactly that which they criticize most strongly in their opposition (whether with foundation or not), and then go find out for sure. You can take this to the bank, 'cos the results are always guaranteed.
Palin Burnout. Too Much of anything makes us sick, CNN.
Already getting bagger burnout too. just hope they all go away soon so we can have some peace while we eat our beans and cornbread.
There she goes, talkin' 'bout biguns. She has no shame.
Palin doesn't have the guts, the maracas, to declare she's in the race. All she does is run her mouth about this candidate, that candidate, Obama......
The candidates don't respect her, because she won't stand up to them, and criticize them face to face
Let me know when she has the guts to be a candidate
BD
"If you think I can be bought for $5,000, then I'm offended," Perry said.
So you're saying there's a price that you can be bought at?
Shouldn't this article be titled "Pro-cervical cancer Palin, slams Perry"?
Most are venting from fear! What is there to fear from sarah regular american palin? Her comments at this time tell what a smart politician she really is; after the others have beat up on each other all will be so weakened that sarah will march right in and decimate the field. she will be an unbeatable force. This lady should be respected. If she was irrelevant all would have been quiet. You will notice how quickly the number of postings shot up whenever her name is just mentioned. She is either your hope or your angst.
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lol! Well looks like she's the angst of 99% of poster on this forum as usual. I see maybe two or three idiots defending this awful woman. So much for "hope." I just hope she goes away for good after the GOP gets the crap beaten out of them AGAIN in 2012!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Sarah, Wasilla calls....go home.
Has anyone told Palin that NO ONE CARES what she thinks??? I truly believe she thinks that the world is waiting to hear her views on things...her ego is HUGE....and doesn't like to be on the sidelines. I bet she was watching the debate last night wishing she was there..this woman is sad...she was thrust into the limelight and now refuses to exit stage left!! Sarah...go please...you are making a fool of yourself...you are a non entity except for those Palin-drones who think like you...
Palin is right! (Gosh, did I say that?) Yes, she is because Perry ("Fritz") is on sale at all times. He publicly established the floor below which he will not sell out.
If Perry's the front-runner, Obama has nothing to worry about.
There was a typo in the article. Palin actually said "I'm getting a kick of getting out there, making a speech, making some CASH... "
Fools and their money are soon parted.
Who?
I'll vote for him now since that idiot Palin hates him.
Seriously. No one really cares. We are worried about our jobs and why both parties want to either spend our money or fire us. We are tired of you all and will vote you all out.
sarah you are an embarrassment to the GOP. go back to alaska, i think you can see the north pole from there.
The problem is people believe the tripe that comes out of her mouth. I voted for Obama last time but will consider a viable option in 2012; unfortuantely the Republicans only have 1 or 2 candidates who are close to the mainstream
In 60 years of living in America I have never been more embarrassed by the people who pretend to leadership in this country or by the citizens who have given up thinking and have accepted the pap and pablum being offered by these hate mongers.
If we who still can think do not act, we get what we deserve and our children will suffer for our laziness and apathy.
Oh jeez, now they're all jumping on this stupidity. Yes, Michelle and Sarah, vaccinations are what's ruining America. Not the economy, not the wars, not the divided government, (I could go on)...... but vaccinations. That's the whole problem!
If you do not want your kids vaccinated then opt out. Easy. Parents are not forced to vaccinate their kids. There are millions who haven't which, by the way, has brought back diseases such as whooping cough which had been eradicated.
But you go girl! You make a big freakin deal out of this! Just like the birth certificate and every other dumb-ass idea the tea party promotes.
Excuse Me! But i am a private citizen like Mrs. Palin, so I can slam anyone! Our weight seems to be equal!
Let her or one of her kids get cervical cancer and then we'll see what tune she plays. The cost of a shot is nothing compared to the cost of treating this cancer, this move likely saved thousands if not millions in medical costs. This is probably the only smart thing Perry did, ironic that it's what she'd criticize him for.
Well, Perry, if $5K doesn't do it anymore, how much are you selling yourself for these days?
The Wasillabilly is a nothing, nobody, irrelevant........................who cares what she has to say?
Perhaps we should get Palin and Perry together for a debate . . . . it would be funnier that Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Johnny Carson put together.
I think that's quite disturbing that Perry places so little value in patients' right to refuse treatment and right to autonomy over their own bodies. How can he even begin to think that it's appropriate for a government to dictate what medications its constituents have to take? And the article isn't clear, was religious objection the only allowable reason for opting out, or were other reasons accepted too eg fear of side-effects?
I'm a great big old liberal by the way, I don't generally watch a video of Bachmann or read a comment from Palin and think "you tell 'em". They're not people I would generally be cheering for, but they're absolutely right on this. That was a gross abuse of power.
BORING....RIDICULOUS.....waste of time for everyone to write it, read it and now comment on it. SO I am quitting
To those who criticize Palin consider this – Perry's act is yet another step towards the Gov dictating decisions that should be made by the parents only. Don't you get it yet? Our Gov has slowly been interjecting itself in our lives taking away our right to decide for ourselves. First it helmet laws, requirement to purchase auto insurance, juvenile rights laws that give more control to the Gov and less to the parents. Most recently, it was Obama thumbing his nose at Congress (who is our voice) when Congress denied the 300K illegals a right to live here legally. Obama has ordered Homeland Security (who is supposed to protect citizens) to find a way for the 300K illegals to stay. Obama was able to get the healthcare act passed which makes it illegal for us citizens not to purchase healthcare – but then who cares whether people can afford it or not. We might be homeless but by God we will have healthcare! Now we have this Governor who has mandated that all girls 12+ years old have this shot – even though the parents may have objection. Oh but then who the hell cares about parental rights! Not the Gov. I challenge each of you to study the juvenile rights acts that the Fed Gov and all states except MT passed. TX repealed theirs in 1995. It is sobering and just might wake up some of you.
I wonder how Ms. Palin and her sister in ignorance, Michelle B., feel about immunizations for diseases like polio, measles and tetanaus. Is it better public policy to let people die from preventable diseases or is it better to act to prevent them? And what would their feelings be on smallpox if it should re-emerge? Smallpox has killed more people than all of humanity's wars combined. Should we prevent it or not? It is such a moral quandry!!!! Oh wait, these diseases don't have a connection to sexual organs and possible sexual activity, so maybe it is OK to prevent them. The possibility that HPV and cervical cancer might be God's punishment for having enjoyed sex means that we should just let their victims die in agony. What utter ignorance. And these fools think they are fit to be President. Hell, they aren't even fit to be garbage collectors. Perry was right on the HPV vaccine. It was probably an accident,but he was right on that.
Sarah Palin is right. The government should NOT legislate nor tell women what to do with their bodies. Right? Right?
ok. no offence to anyone in here that supports Palin but can this beast of a person go away please... you have this great opportunity to live a life, to be alive. given the size and nature of the universe the odds are so slim that we'd have this amazing existence. and then it gets muddled up with people like Sarah Palin and you think, wow. what a shame that jackal's soul got put in the wrong body.
Not as dumb as everyone thinks – avoiding debates but attacking whereever it will strengthen her.
I can bet that she will enter the fray when debates are winding down – she will just realize that there are no viable candidates. Just scared of the debates. You decide whether you want this lady who avoids tough challenge to represent your country.
She isn't on the ticket and she left her governor job to make more money so who cares what she thinks.
Oh and can she criticize someone without making a gun reference for once? That'd be great.
I fear for the future if this is the best the GOP has to offer. As for the 1/2 term governor, I hope she runs just for the debates. It will be better than a SLN skit!
Paliln, don't just bark like a mad dog from the side-line. If you've have what it takes, get into the ring fight like a true candidate. You're just pathetic.
SHe wears that sweater like a high school cheerleader, and has the intellect to match.
Just think, not to long ago she was buddies with Perry; endorsed and campaigned for Perry’s re-election. Now she is singing a different song….
Governor Perry, I think you could be bought for $500.00 not just $5,000. Do you have a daughter that is in the sixth grade in Texas???? Between this last idiotic thing to want done and the fact that you want to take Social Security from everyone over 62 and getting a pension, sir you have overstepped your boundaries. You don't have a chance in bell to get the nomination.
it's all ok as long as you don't call palin out.
so the government immunizing adolescent girls against hpv with the ability to opt out of immunization if they want = bad, but the government forcing adolescent to carry their pregnancies to term = good? yeah. not hypocritical at all.
Amazing how an anti-big Goverment activist like Perry would allow our children to be violated by big Pharma. At least he insisted on a donation. Republicans are so predictable. How can Perry truly be against big business, while selling out to Pharma. At least he has cool hair.
What a perfect way to make Mr. Bilderburg Perry look good. Have Palin attack him. Don't you liberals see what trick the establishment is playing on you to get Perry "over"? Go back and read over the commets. You will see that eventhough Perry did something horrible, yes girls actually DIED due to his decision. By having Palin attack him (who you HATE soo soo sooooo much) it destracts you from the real issue, the vaccines and how wicked Perry really is.
Liberals DON'T make Perry look good, THINK!!! I know, I know you despise Palin, I don't care for her either, but don't let your hatred of Palin cloud your opinion of Perry.
Oh I put the dreaded word Bilderburg in post, let's see if CNN let's it go through.
Who cares what Palin has to say.
Palin == Fail
Despite why ]Perry did it I wish they did it earlier my wife and I have hpv, and would anyone have a problem if it was for hiv.
Palin doesn't want to debate for the same reason Perry is now in a bit of trouble. Neither one of them was better than a mediocre student while in school. Perry's grades have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. Very few decent grades (A or B) and a majority of grades in the C to D range. He even has an F to his credit. But, he did manage to stay in one school, instead of dropping out of one after another as Palin did.
Then again, how smart do the Republicans have to be to be smarter than the TeaPartiers? Perhaps an IQ of 70 to 80 would be a genius in that particular group.
My LATEST problem with Sarah Palin is her self-proclaimed "getting a kick out of" staying in the spotlight and weighing in on the 2012 prospects." She refuses to actually toss her hat in the ring and commit to running for office, therefore sparing herself the chore of an actual debate where she would be forced to engaged with own party. But instead, she uses her celebrity to take pot shots at the actual candidates and those who are actually serving in office, not to mention those who are completing their elected term.
Isn't Palin also the advocate of how well "abstinence only" works?
"'I'm getting a kick of getting out there, making a speech, making some statement about things that must be discussed and then the very next day watching some of the candidates get out there and discuss what it was we just talked about,' Palin said."
Sheesh...she sounds like a 12 yr old girl. And she said it right there: she's "getting a kick" out of all this. She's in it for kicks (attention). Not surprised. Why are we listening to what she has to say again?
I am still wrapping my mind around why it would be a problem to vaccinate people against disease if the people could freely opt out of the vaccination.
Why can't this twat just go away. Who in their right mind would vote for such an ignoramus. You have to be a complete moron to not see that she is intentionally delaying throwing her hat in the ring to avoid having to participate in the candidacy debates. If she can pray away STD's maybe if everyone tries hard enough we can pray her away.
Candidacy for Dummies by Sarah palin
BEHOLD our next and greatest President Sarah Palin. Palin is a VASTLY SUPERIOR governor and statesman than Perry could ever be. Palin will PWN Perry and Romney in the GOP debates and easily win the nomination and the white house. We will have 8 great years of President Palin as she brings the Palin Revolution to our government and clean out the crony corruption. We will be the Palination and she will bring us to the promised Palinland!
Here's what most people don't understand: Rick Perry is the ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE. He was put into the race by the "insiders" that work behind the scenes and control the elections (yes, Bohemian Grove, New World Order, the whole deal.) Notice how the media magically turned him into the "front runner" overnight – just like they did with Barack Obama. That's how they control the elections – they predetermine the nominee of BOTH parties.
But THIS year, there is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party. The Tea Party are the REAL conservatives here. They don't want a second George Bush so they are attacking Rick Perry with everything they've got. Good for them. And whether you're a liberal or a conservative, you should WANT them to win because Rick Perry is BAD NEWS.
Sarah-
The vaccine mandate had a opt-out option for parents.
Stop your insanity.
-Chris
Palin wants Governor Perry to know that she too was a governor. Not quite as long, but still a governor.
It's easy to slam people. That's all she does. Oh, by the way, it was Ron Paul in the Reagan debate that that up the Vaccines to girls in Texas.
Founders 1791 – Palin may have all those things you describe but there's one thing she lacks – intellect. She may be able to run a great campaign but what does that get you on Day One in the Oval Office?
Her record as Mayor and Governor (a job she resigned from, some say to avoid charges of corruption) are not as spotless as you would suggest. And neither of those necessarily qualify her to be president. Her *ahem* qualities as a person are what matters, and in that regard she is seriously lacking. I HAVE listened to her, and I find that I could get the same level of understanding about the issues in a local pre-school.
The only federal mandate from god is that we are endowed by our creator with the right to LIFE. How is a little girl not being denied this right by allowing her parents to choose not to prevent her from getting cervical cancer? Palin and Bachman need to re-read the DOI and constitution and realize that the one thing they SHOULD stand for is this.
Snooki Palin certainly could lie along with the rest of the wingnuts if she had the cajones to face them. The whole debate was nothing but one lie after another. The GOBP created their teabag Frankenstein monster using Koch Bros,Dick Armey lies.
Bachmann's delusional HPV lie is another nail in her campaign coffin. Snookie Palin is coming after her teabagger money.
Getting a kick? Straight out the door, or off the planet!
Is it completely true that Mrs. Sarah Palin is completely honest? Some reports came in news-paper during her resignation from Alaska Gov. that there were cases of irregularities in gov. There were one case of napotism where a job was specifically given to one of her relative....! Nobody is completely white in present day politics.
She is always slamming someone but yet has no real ideas of her own. As much as I am not a fan of Rick Perry, I think all young girls should get this vaccine. As mothers, Sarah and Michelle should both understand the importance of this, but then again, Sarah had her daughter get pregnant at early age, so she doesn't seem to care much about what her daughters are doing. As far as Michelle, maybe her and husband should stop worrying about gays, and should focus on their children.
I think vaccines are a good idea. They have eliminated diseases like smallpox and polio. Why is it bad that the government require these? That's pretty nutty that they attack him on this.
There's no one to root for. She's a vapid reality TV star and he doesn't believe in evolution or global warming.
"Well, I'm offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn't have a choice."
Well, let's just remember that the next time abortion comes up, OK, then? Choice = good. Choice = free.
" The problem today is most poignant for the immorals are now legislating their immorality on the majority."
@ Alaska Palin:
How is that poignant? When was the last time you used a dictionary? There is no context in which your comment would make the least bit of sense.
Palin claims to have "bumps and bruises" to prove her stupidity. Duh! America already knows that. Palin has too much time on her hands. Not to mention little reminder notes on her palm. She should consider finishing her short lived stint as Governor of Alaska. Imagine, a quitter wants to become President of the U.S. LOL! How long before she walks out?
It's not a question of whether the children needed the shot but that the need for the immunization was determined, programmed and contracted to benefit six gun Perry's amigo and Merck. I hope they don't determine you need a vasectomy.
Wow! condemning this man for the only good thing he's done as far as i have seen. the one time he actually listens to science, the other knuckle-draggers slam him for it. if any of this pathetic bunch of lunatics take over the white house, we can kiss this country good-bye!
she will never go away. she will be around forever showing what great hindsight she has, of course she even gets that wrong
What a freaking coward. She is a pathetic disgrace to this country
What if it was a vaccine to prevent lung cancer, breast cancer, or leukemia. Bet there would be no outcry. But gasp, when it has to do with, um, er, golly, SEX, it becomes bad in the eyes of the self-righteous who care more about appearing religious than they do about actually acting religious. Protecting your child against ANY type of cancer is a no-brainer. I
Palin's handlers must realize that Perry & Palin would be competing for the same votes if Palin decided to run, so she has to bring down Perry in order to have a chance when she enters the race.
Sarah Palin is a total air head. If anyone takes her serious as a potential leader you need your head torn off and examined.
She is so out of her mind. If you just listen to the voice you can hear she is insecure.
A complete phony! Save your time by deleting her from any further discussions.
I'm curious as to whether Palin is objecting to the Merck donation or the idea of vaccination to begin with. Considering, at the time, there was only 1 drug approved by the FDA for HPV vaccination, if any state or government wanted to require the vaccination, there was only 1 place to go to get the drug regardless of whether Merck made donations or not. Palin and Bachmann spout "crony capitalism", but, in this case, there was no cronyism as Merck's drug wasn't unfairly favored over some other company's HPV vaccination.
It's too bad Perry didn't sieze oil company profits, and redistribute that wealth to his state's citizens like Palin did in Alaska.
So the Tea Party is pro-HPV? Poor children that have these mental midget parents...Get your children vaccinated for HPV...You wouldn't skip Polio Shots ffs.
Coming from the contrarian in chief her critism has little meaning.
If Sarah Palin wanted to debate Rick Perry, then she should announce her candidacy and get in the race. Oh wait, then she'd have to give up her paycheck from Faux News.......nevermind! She'll wait until the last possible minute to declare she's running.
Interesting, the real Republicans (not the silly Tea party and social conservatives but the people who have actually governed a Republicans) don't like Perry. Now the Palin/Bachman caucus so going after him too. Really, we've had two dumb Presidents in a row, we can't let Perry add to the total.