re: #75 Dark_Falcon

Chris Christie isn’t really pandering to the anti-vaxxers, though his words have that effect. His main effort is to put some distance between himself and President Obama. If he simply came out behind vaccination, even unforcefully, wingnuts would be lining up to say “That RINO Christie is embracing Obama again. He must really love Traitorous Mooslum [the n-word, plural]!!1”

I get that Christie wants to avoid that, but he shouldn’t do so at the cost of people dying of disease.

Think again:

By contrast, Christie said Monday that “not every vaccine is created equal, and not every disease type is as great a public health threat as others,” according to the Times.

Yes Dark, Christie is very much pandering to these assholes by basically adopting their argument that the diseases these vaccines are meant to protect children from are not “as great a public health threat.” Or perhaps you’ve missed the anti-vaxxers in the press this past week or so arguing that measles “isn’t that bad”?