Alright pals, that's enough. Sarah Palin was pretty funny while she lasted, I have to admit. And Rick Perry's face-plant routine was almost entertaining enough to make up for his shameless grifting in my home state. But Rand Paul and Chris Christie have stepped over the line, pandering to a dangerously ignorant constituency. What unconscionable depravity would lead these two enterprising cretins to think that they might advance themselves by courting the vote of persons so incomprehensibly dense as to pretend that they have good reason to forgo vaccinating their innocent children against disease.
...more ranting after the elegant orange hearse-plume...
Smallpox had been around since about 10,000 BC. It killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans annually during the closing years of the 18th century and was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century. It was an extraordinarily contagious disease. Horrible, disfiguring and deadly. No treatment was ever discovered to address the symptoms of smallpox, or to shorten the course of the painful disease. If Christie, a school-boy at the time, had been equipped to advocate his policy of "balance" back in 1979, the program of vaccination that was well on its way to successfully eradicating that ancient horror might have had a true adversary. Just think.
Polio is another dreadful, debilitating and often fatal affliction that has been largely eradicated, though strains persist in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Africa. We can be sure that Rand Paul, with his personal knowledge of "profound mental disorders" (of which slope-headed libertarian-ism is but one), would be welcomed by the mothers of crippled and dying children in those regions for his message of freedom.
Measles is yet another awful sickness that, through systematic vaccination, was completely eradicated in United States in 2000. Thanks to the kind of encouragement we've heard recently from the likes of Paul and Christie, there are now at least 102 reported cases of measles in 14 states, according to the CDC - with warnings of a large outbreak to come.
Just think what the feckless pandering of these two imbeciles could do for the economy. I guess it would help take our minds of the pustular rash.
There is no balance, no discussion, no claim with regard to vaccination against communicable disease any more than there is about driving on the right side of the road or stopping at red lights. This should spell the end for the Christie and Paul campaigns. Even if the base has trouble with spelling, their wicked rivals in the party have read the writing on the wall. Bring out your dead.