Discussion: Cruz Defends Christie On Vaccine Comments, Blames The Media

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We’ve got two little girls, we’ve vaccinated both our girls

Even though, and Mrs Cruz thought this was so amusing, both requested sterilization…

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And further, Senator Cruz said that he finds the concept of red lights and green lights to be another symptom of big brother run amok. He urges all the true patriots in this country to treat automated traffic signals as yield signs and proceed at their own risk. < \ snark >

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Christie was on his Great Britain roadshow, was in a facility where vaccines are made and could have issued a full blown endorsement of them. But no. He was thinking of the wings back home. P.S. Fat guys shouldn’t wear white

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Cruz told reporters that the controversy over vaccines is “largely silliness stirred up by the media,”

No. The controversy is stirred up by the batshit crazy beliefs of the Bircher wing of the Republican Party.

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I’m not even that big, and I have a hell of a time finding lab coats that fit.

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Can we please get a pass on having to read anything this clown says?

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Gotta love it! They are falling all over themselves to clean up CC’s poop on aisle 3!

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Alberta Rafael’s wishy-washiness isn’t going to go over well in one of Houston’s biggest employers - The Texas Medical Center.

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Turd Cruz is agreeing with Obama.

This is surely the end of his political career (Turds, not Obama’s).

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“Cruz: Parents With ‘Religious Convictions’ Should Get A Pass On Vaccines”

No, no they shouldn’t. And if they use religion as an excuse not to vaccinate and their child or any other child gets sick because of their actions, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, just as people who withhold medical care/food/medicine due religious beliefs.

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It’s the media’s fault those people at Disney got the measles?

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The Episcopal Diocese of Texas supports marriage equality. Guess Rafael supports the religious convictions of Episcopalians in his state and will press for the overturning of the marriage bans in Texas.

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What an idiot. States should decide about vaccinations? So a tea-bag nutcase gets in charge of, let’s say, Texas and eliminates mandatory vax…how long until the epidemics flood the border states and the rest of the country? This is a legitimate use of Federal power. Also, this notion of religious beliefs being able to supercede established law is cute and clever when we’re talking about birth control or one person’s vaccinations, but follow it to the logical conclusion (Some religious beliefs require public stoning for ‘offenses’ that aren’t even criminal) and you see that what ends up happening is you have to pick and choose which religious beliefs are okay and which aren’t. Again, idiot.

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Am I the only one whose EDG (electroderpiogram) just went nuts?

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Bullcrap. If they elect not to vaccinate, then they have to home school. PERIOD.

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Living in Houston, I had mine disconnected years ago. Better if I don’t know how badly the teavangelicals upset me.

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Partly, but not in the way Cruz is saying. Had the MSM not treated this issue as having 2 equally legitimate sides, or at least refused to sensationalize and lend any credence whatsoever to the vaccine conspiracy theories about autism etc. (entertaining nuts like Jenny McCarthy and deliberately avoiding strongly taking the side of science here), engaging in the usual false equivalence bullshit that has become their standard operating procedure, then yeah, perhaps we wouldn’t be seeing a growing number of shitheads running around failing to vaccinate their childrenz.

“We’ve got two little girls, we’ve vaccinated both our girls…”

“…but making it mandatory means we have to make sure that these things are available to everyone and that funding is provided to give them to everyone. I certainly wanted MY kids vaccinated, but there’s a whole host of people in this country who I really would rather watch die of measles, mumps, rubella, etc. Quite frankly, if we could’ve given them all syphilis via the menthol cigarettes, that would have been my preferred method…”

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Sorry but no religion that opposes vaccinations is worthy of anyone’s respect. Least of all, the states’.

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he added that states should be in charge of deciding whether vaccines are mandatory, according to Politico. He also said that states should consider exceptions for those with “good faith, religious convictions.”

Which begs the question: why? First, why should states be the arbiter of these issues? As long as people with contagious illnesses can travel interstate, why shouldn’t the national government control this?

But second: why should people with good faith religious convictions be exempted from vaccination requirements? People are vaccinated for highly contagious diseases which can inflict significant harm on those who, because if immune disorders or age, are not vaccinated. Why should we give the religious a pass when that decision can have profound consequences for those who don’t share those beliefs?

I don’t get the “let the religious do what they want” notion.

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