[justlittleoleme]

Article Link: http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/02/03/ben-carson-gets-hoisted-petard-isnt-pretty-video/

Reporter: Do you regret, uh, announcing that that you were going to be going back to Florida and spurring some of this confusion?

Carson: Well, I didn’t make that announcement. Uh, I guess somebody talked to … other people…

Reporter: Well, your campaign told the press.

Carson: You know, *I* didn’t say it, so don’t blame me. [laughing]

Reporter: But you’re here telling us that people should know what’s going on in their campaign and hold people accountable, I mean that’s [crosstalk]

Carson: Well, let me ask you this question, is it okay after being on the road for after three weeks to go home to Florida and get a fresh change of clothes? Or is that a problem? Does that make someone into an evil, horrible person?

..... So, to summarize:

Carson admits his own campaign staffer talked to the media and said he was going to Florida.
Carson takes no responsibility for the actions of this staffer.
Cruz staffer tweeted a media report based entirely on what the aforementioned staffer said.
According to Carson, Cruz should take responsibility for that staffer.

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So Carson knew his campaign leaked this to the press. Then got angry that it snowballed from there.... He is kinda burrying the lead here isn't he.

And going home to get a change of clothes? Is Iowa or New Hampshire so rural that he can't send staff or go himself to buy some more clothes?

[Enlightened1]

Cruz said he was dropping out, and using the trip to Florida as the excuse. It was dirty and you know it.

[RitaOK]

Come on. Cruz and his team are the smartest guys in the room, remember? They certainly know the code word for serious speech goes like this:

” I am *suspending* my campaign “

Without those words, lawyer Ted’s team of jackals know very well how to say the following:

“Hold up, everybody, let’s go get a confirmation from Ben.”

It’s certainly not because they don’t have Ben’s phone number.

[RitaOK]

Your line of thinking is not working. Try again.

The Cruz team is the smartest team in the room, right? Why were they the only cabal to get it so wrong? Why not call Ben? It’s not like they didn’t have his number, and get confirmation?

The only words that matter in any campaign are the words of the contender himself, saying that “I am suspending my campaign.” It is the only legal requirement for all campaigns.

Phrases such as saying, To go home, to take leave, to not go here, or there does not “suspend”.

Who doesn’t know that? Even I know that.

Cruz perhaps didn’t know what was going on, but an hour and seventeen minutes later, the campaign operatives were still saying it and even embellishing the Cnn report. Cruz probably HAD to know by then. Carson had already clarified by then.

[eartick]

Is Iowa or New Hampshire so rural that he can't send staff or go himself to buy some more clothes?

His campaign is broke and he has not received his infusion of cash from the RNC for starting this hit piece on Cruz yet.

When that cash comes in, it will be off to the races again in his new shiny duds with a great big smile across his face.

[JediJones]

.@SteveDeaceShow "this is the longest trip to get a pair of pants in the history of western civilization."— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) February 4, 2016

Ben Carson is an absolutely brilliant man, so I'm kind of surprised he hasn't found a pair of pants by now.— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) February 4, 2016

[DrewsMum]

Taking time off from the campaign, even temporarily, is SUSPENDING it.

Everyone knows it. But they’ll try to play word games to try to nail cruz. I’ve never seen a man so hated by evil.

[petercooper]

His clothes look clean in that shot.