Posted on 02/06/2016 1:13:18 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
In an effort to draw attention to his Kim Kardashian-style vanity campaign, Ben Carson took his contrived outrage mongering against Cruz to a new level yesterday. During one of his numerous media appearances over the past three days, which is more actual campaigning than he’s done for the past few months while he took a hiatus to sell books, Carson compared Cruz’s behavior in Iowa to Hillary following the Benghazi tragedy.
Enough is enough.
If Carson wants to talk about the depths of deception and dishonesty he should “start looking at the man in the mirror.”
I was born and bred in Baltimore and grew up in the shadow of Dr. Carson’s stupendous reputation as ‘America’s Surgeon.’ I’ve never thought anything but admirable sentiments towards him, but his behavior this week reveals a man who is either running a scam or should be disqualified from running for office due to incompetency.
A few months ago, when Donald Trump referred to Carson as pathological and compared him to a child molester, Carson had nothing to say. He was completely impotent. And in fact, his numbers tanked shortly thereafter. Yet, when Cruz’s campaign took Carson’s absurd and bizarre campaign statement about going home to Florida as a sign he was dropping out of the race, Carson went nuclear. And despite Cruz’s gracious apology, Carson accepted it… but then went on the media circuit savaging him.
What gives?
The definition of a coward is someone who “lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things.” When facing Donald Trump, Carson knew he would endure unpleasant things by confronting him. Whereas when confronting Cruz, Carson knows that he will never attack him personally. Moreover, he knows that because the media is out to destroy Cruz they will grant him an audience for his languishing campaign and slurp up any allegation he launches at him, irrespective of the facts or soundness of his charge.
What is more insidious is that Carson is using this attack to further obfuscate his seemingly scam campaign and in doing so he is actually proving the point of the Cruz campaign and why they thought he was dropping out in the first place.
Why did Cruz and other campaigns believe that “returning to Florida” might signal he was dropping out? First, because he told the media before the caucuses were even finished of his odd post-caucus plans. Even two of Carson's former aides have gone on the record stating this was a mistake and all but clearing the Cruz campaign. Add to that the fact that Carson has not, until mid-day Friday, held a single event in New Hampshire and South Carolina during the heat of the campaign. Just this week, he has let go 50 “non-essential” employees (non-essential, just like federal bureaucracies!). He has, by any objective measure, dropped out of the race. Yet, he is only in the race to the extent that he is attacking Cruz on TV and raising money off his feigned outrage…..not so that he can use that money to campaign for the nomination, but continue reinvesting it in his direct mail vendors. Thus, the circuitous cycle of a what appears to be a scam operation that has raised almost $54 million – more than any other candidate except Bernie Sanders – but burn through 88% of it and poll roughly the same as Carly Fiorina in New Hampshire.
There are other candidates who have not performed well, such as Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and Carly Fiorina. But those candidates, especially after they tanked in the polls, didn’t raise significant sums of money and used the few dollars to barnstorm through the early states. Rick Santorum actually had more campaign stops in the final week of the Iowa campaign than anyone else. Where has Ben Carson been?
What appears to be the actual deception and dishonesty here is Ben Carson’s fleecing of his donors and supporters. The media is still not interested in asking Carson tough questions as to why he has not made it back to the early states. He stopped in North Carolina yesterday but didn’t go to South Carolina, which holds its primary sooner. What has he done with all the money he raised?
In some sense Ben Carson is right about Ted Cruz. Carson’s behavior this week demonstrates that indeed Cruz does owe him another apology. Cruz should apologize for thinking Carson would respond to his apology honorably. As such, the only logical conclusion anyone could make from such a bizarre campaign announcement, which came on the heels of months of sparse campaigning in Iowa, is that he was dropping out of the race. Nobody would ever suspect he’d spend the week doing vanity media, raising millions of dollars, and not stepping foot in New Hampshire or South Carolina..unless the entire campaign served as nothing but the sole purpose of raising money. There isn’t a strategy on earth where a candidate can finish fourth in Iowa, skip most campaign days leading up to New Hampshire and South Carolina, and then somehow take the rest of the nation by storm.
It’s a real shame what politics can do to people. Unfortunately, while Carson has been slow to pick up the policy knowledge of a career politician he has been quick to learn the worst acts of chicanery that are characteristic of career politicians.
Had Cruz run such a vanity campaign, raising millions spending most of it on fundraising mailers while declining to run a serious campaign, the media would be asking tough questions. Had Cruz announced he couldn’t find the nearest dry cleaners and was returning home for a week to get some clothes, thereby missing the critical campaign days in the important states, he would have been the subject of endless parodies on Saturday Night Live.
But given that Carson is using his own exercise in self-parody to project dishonesty on Ted Cruz, the media is stone silent. And meanwhile, Ben Carson is having the time of his life.
Look who you are replying too. You are wasting your time.
What is Horrorwitz squawking about? Teddy got away with it he should be happy.
And I wonder why Carson didn't get the clarification out to his field staff.
There was nothing to get away with. Campaign Cruz was absolutely correct to pass that story along to his field reps. And he absolutely does not apologize for it either. He did nothing wrong. The only thing he apologized for was not getting the clarification stories that came out later to his field staff in a more timely fashion. But given the hustle and bustle of the caucuses, I’m not surprised, given the insanity of the caucuses, that the clarification tweet got lost in the chaos. Any fair minded person can see that, unless you have surrendered the noggin God has given you and become a Trumpbot.
And btw, we need Ted to win the primary, if for no other reason than to prevent this from happening in the general:
http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/188936/trump-negative-image.aspx
Exactly like I said he got away with it. LOL!
And at 8:20 Cruz campaign chief Steve King tweets deceptively: It looks like Carson is getting out of the race...... knowing full well this was inaccurate.
So how does Carl Rove King knew about the updated tweet?
He of course doesn't.
There’s a difference between people speculating on what something means and reporting something. One is opinion, the other (hopefully) is fact. CNN never reported that Carson was dropping out. Some commentators speculated that he was. When Cruz says CNN reported it and his staff just passed it along he’s lying.
So how does Carl Rove know King knew about the updated tweet?
Exactly. It was the Carson's campaign's idiotic statement that started the rumor and it was his campaign's incompetence that didn't clarify it to his supporters.
Carson is not a serious candidate anyway. He took the whole week off after leaving Iowa early Monday evening. Carly Fiorina deserves to be in tonights's debate before Carson.
Carson knew about the problem at 7:53pm and had time to send to his field captains the message that he is not dropping out.
Did Carson do that?
If he did, then there shouldn't be a problem.
If Carson didn't do that, then why not?
Reagan said something to the effect that Republicans should not speak ill of one another, obviously that’s out the window. The current slate of Republican candidates would do well to revisit that sage advice and put the well being of the Republic (such as it is) over the ever expanding power of the Federal government.
God help us all if we don’t correct this situation.
Being a MBTI adminstrator can one say you have ‘fun’ here reading posts?
Take care.........pilgrim
Is it possible this was a set up?
With all the ‘hullabalooooooo’ going on something seems fishy!
Which raises the question: How does this idiot talk about people he doesn’t admire?
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Instead of sitting on the bench and acting like a know it all moron, why doesn’t Horowitz try running for president sometime. Monday morning quarterbacking is really cheap copy. So Carson decided to go to Florida and everyone thinks they have a better idea as to how he should be running his campaign. It’s Carson’s campaign to run for Pete’s sake and he is entitled to run it anyway he wants to. They have launched into this diversionary tactic to distract the reader from the big elephant in the room which remains the initial back stabbing dirty tricks effort to destroy Carson for personal gain.
Reagan said something to the effect that Republicans should not speak ill of one another, obviously that’s out the window.
Now is not the time for a Reagan, sad to say. It is time for a “Churchill”. Churchill will was the bull dog that got everyone to back down, he was abrasive, and very liberal in his position just prior to being elected.
We need a bull dog..............................
I didn’t.
“So how does Carl Rove know King knew about the updated
tweet?”
The same way Rove knows Cruz stole 4 Carson votes x 1500 precincts, of course ... he pulled it out of his whiteboard.
I posted more or less the same thing directly after Rove first talked about this on BOR a couple of nights ago - to no avail.
Sorry to say, Rove has somehow convinced some that the Cruz camp managed to switch 4 Carson voters x 1500 precincts.
It couldn’t be more than 4, because then Rove would have to figure out where the other switched votes went to, and that would open a can of worms for someone other than Cruz - and that wouldn’t do because Cruz was the target.
No reasoning, no questioning .. they simply took Rove’s word for it.
If anybody wants to find out the truth about Dr. Carson, you need to study the church he attends.
I mean, you need to look up the name of the religion his church preaches, and see what they teach.
If you are willing to do that, you will find the answers to Carson’s actions, and you’ll see what he believes about other Christians; like Cruz.
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