latest misstep the beginning of the end of her presidential campaign? by most accounts, bachmann did well in the republican debate taking rick perry to task on his order to girls to get the hpv vaccine, suggesting he was catering to pharmaceutical maker, merck. then she did this. i ll tell you this, i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. and people have to draw their own conclusions. that was bachmann on the today show recounting what some unnamed stranger said to her. now, we have no reason to doubt someone says this to mrs. bachmann, but it s incredibly irresponsible for her to repeat this as part of her argument against the hpv vac