A spokesman for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told TPM on Tuesday that the potential 2016 presidential contender urges all Americans to vaccinate their children, as a major measles outbreak spreads across the nation.
“Sen. Graham would urge every American to vaccinate their children,” Graham spokesman Kevin Bishop said in a statement to TPM. “And he would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until somebody can show him there is a scientific reason to do so.”
Bishop didn’t say whether Graham believed vaccinations should be mandatory, however.
Two other potential Republican presidential candidates, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), each made waves Monday when they separately argued that parents who object to vaccinating their children should have more of a choice in immunizations.
No, whatever we do, do not touch the very controversial hot-button issue of whether settled public policy for almost century that has saved uncounted hundreds of thousands of lives should be reversed.
Seriously…their circumlocution of the issue of whether vaccination should be mandated should be considered just as, if not more, disqualifying as pandering to the anti-vaxx imbeciles.
Miss LIndsey took it to a truly epic level of end-running turn-it-on-its-head irrelevance here with his statement that he would “reject efforts to stop vaccinations” unless and until someone could show him science proving it should be stopped.
NOT. THE. ISSUE. DOUCHEBAG. He should be fucking talking about the FACT that overwhelming scientific and historical data/evidence already exists showing why it SHOULD be mandatory.
Mr graham, could you please button hole Thom Tillis and remind him to please wash his hands when he uses the bathroom? Thanks.
The GOP-TP and their talking heads are all over the place on this issue. Just keep letting them discuss it in front of open mics is all I ask. Thanks.
Especially after those closeted-self-loather-conservative wide stance reacharounds…nobody likes sticky palms…