Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Tuesday said Louisiana requires all school children to be vaccinated, and for good reason.
“I have no reservations about whether or not it is a good idea and desirable for all children to be vaccinated. There is a lot of fear-mongering out there on this,” he said in a statement. “I think it is irresponsible for leaders to undermine the public’s confidence in vaccinations that have been tested and proven to protect public health. Science supports them and they keep our children safe from potentially deadly but preventable diseases.”
The governor added that he personally would not send his children to a school that did not require vaccinations.
Bobby Jindal statement coming out in strong support of vaccines: pic.twitter.com/jEB5qf8Fsd
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It also supports the facts of natural selection/evolution, that dinosaurs and man did not roam the land together and the existence of man’s contribution to climate change.
Your move, shitstain.
Well. This is a very confusing statement for Jindal supporters from the POTUS wannabe.
Okay, but does he support mandatory hand-washing?
Rather shocking to hear that this dipshit got hit with the Commonsense Club.
Here’s the deal.
The rock-solid ridge upon which the Republican Party rests consists of a Base of people who would actually contemplate not giving their children vaccinations because of the association of the word “vaccination” with the words “government mandate”.
Therefore, orthodoxy requires that vaccination be an issue for this very important Base group of people (who are always tremendously politically energized).
The fact that Jindal, here, has resisted and Ted Cruz has not is all about each one’s particular reading of the relative strength of this Base (e.g. Is the Base actually THAT crazy? Is the Base all THAT influential?).