Based on what we know about the financial condition of Carson’s campaign, I think it is highly likely that Carson intended to go home and talk to his staff and family about quitting. The statement about going home to get clothes doesn’t pass the smell test - a campaign that has to lay off 40% of its staff doesn’t have the spare cash for the candidate to fly to Florida for clean clothes. But I think once the rumor got out he was quitting, he tried to quash it because he hadn’t really made up his mind yet. And now he is keeping this alive not because he really thinks he lost any votes (he did better than he was expected to), but because it keeps him in the spotlight a little longer.
I can pretty much guarantee that he is only hanging on through NH because to drop out now after making such a big fuss would make him look like a phony. He will be out by the end of next week.
Yep.....only one correction...he went home with plans to leave there and attend the Washington’s Obama prayer breakfast. Clearly that is not a man who’s in a Presidential race to win but for some other reason.
I think he had already made up his mind he was quitting the race....he simply wanted to control how he exited and when.....his agenda showed no plans for meetings in NH or any other state.
Whatever his intentions...he was done and lost control of what he thought he could control....now he’s going to bask in the media for a time....
There’s only one person who is to blame for this mess....and that’s Carson.
Agreed. The “fresh clothing” excuse comes across as phony. FedEx a suit from home, for crying out loud. It would be like somebody walking off the field in the middle of the world series, sitting in the bleachers, and telling everybody, hey, wait, I’m still in the game. I never said I was quitting.
In law, sometime we determine the mindset of a person from their actions, even when their words do not confirm or even contradict those actions. A person can say, I never wanted the contractor to do my roof. No, but you let him do it, you even handed him the hammer and some shingles, so that’s an implied contract.
The bigger point is, voting for Carson was wasting a valuable vote. How many times have I heard it here. Don’t waste your vote on candidate X, it’s just like voting for Obama, because candidate X can’t win. Same logic.
BTW, Breitbart has a pretty good timeline here:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/
It seems the whole escapade lasted little more than half an hour. Very easy during all that back and forth to miss the denials or to disregard the denials as phony posturing, relying on one’s own instincts as to what the news of Carson’s going awol actually meant. I agree with your assessment that Carson is probably driving this nonsense for the attention. Pitiful to watch what appears to be the victim mentality on display in someone so accomplished.
Peace,
SR