Posted on 02/11/2016 7:11:16 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
TheBlaze TV and radio host Dana Loesch took to Twitter yesterday to call on Governor Chris Christie, Dr. Ben Carson and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina to do the country a favor by dropping out:
"If Christie, Fiorina, and Carson don’t exit after tonight I have to question whether they are in it for the country or themselves."
Earlier today, Christie took her advice. A few hours later, Fiorina did the same thing.
Sadly, however, Ben Carson has done the exact opposite. Instead of suspending his campaign, the famed neurosurgeon left for South Carolina yesterday evening. Unbelievably enough, he did so before the results of New Hampshire's primary were in. He actually skipped his own post-primary party.
Now, it's clear to anyone with half a brain that Carson's campaign is doomed. He disappointed in Iowa -- a state where he should have competed for the top spot -- and barely registered in New Hampshire. RealClearPolitics' poll of polls still has him in fifth place in South Carolina (with 8.7%), but those polls were conducted well before the Iowa caucuses. In other words, he will undoubtedly have fallen even further behind in the meantime.
Carson himself is, of course, fully aware of these facts and therefore knows he doesn't have a chance. He's done. Stick a fork in it.
Yet, he stays in. Why?
While thinking about this question a thought struck me: Why does it surprise me? It shouldn't. All of these candidates are some of the most ambitious and ruthless people in the country (they wouldn't be where they're at if they weren't). Of course it's all about them! Rand Paul dropped out because he's running for the Senate again, and Christie is still a governor who has to actually serve the people who elected him.
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He’s run an unusual campaign, but he’s done well, considering. He should stay in if he’s able, as long as his support holds out.
I heard him tell Hannity that the people who encouraged him to run in the first place, want him to stay.
A member that is really banned or suspended won’t show “since (date”) in the heading under their name.
The Freeper put that in the page himself.
This is a lame comment. It is always suspicious whenever people are asked to act according to purely unselfish motives.
Who is she to be dispensing directives to Ben Carson or anyone else?
Didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
From a great height, I pass water upon ‘The Blaze’.
Any candidate that suspends their campaign to sell books is in it for himself. Any candidate that leaves the caucus before it’s over, to get some clean shirts in Florida, isn’t really interested in being president.
Good to know.
Rush is dead on the money when he talks about Trump’s coalition. He’s got a tent that’s growing by the day and Evangelicals are a big part of that.
First steal his vote and now force him to quit. What a sham?
Because it won’t make any difference one way or the other.
Carson would have done a lot better in Iowa without the pathological disease and child molester stuff a month earlier...
I think it’s “or something”
I wish I could marry a woman like Dana.
“Why no pressure for Gilmore to drop?”
Gilmore’s not drawing enough votes to spoil the race.
“After the shellacking she got in NH, is Hillary just in this “for herself” now too?”
Hillary’s always been in it “for herself”, of course!
Seriously, though, the Dem primary is already effectively a 2 man race, so that is why there is no pressure for any of them to drop out. It’s a bit different when you have a race still clogged with “also rans” who obviously have no shot at winning, but who are going to draw votes away from competitive candidates.
“South Carolina is exactly the kind of state Carson can do REALLY well in.”
Nah, he can’t do well in SC with no campaign staff left and an empty bus with his picture on it driving around the state.
“Carson would have done a lot better in Iowa without the pathological disease and child molester stuff a month earlier... “
Hate to foist a little truth on you, but the “pathological” part of this came from one of Carson’s own books, not Trump - who, by the way, simply said one doesn’t get over a pathological tendency for violence (which is what Carson said he had), anymore than other pathological problems, such as child molestation. He didn’t by any stretch of the imagination infer that Carson had this problem.
Dana Loesch is a Glenn Beck flack. She always espouses what ever works for Glenn’s personal agenda on any particular day.
She’s two for three.
And Jim Gilmore is still running. (I think he wants to wait until the field winnows enough that he gets one shot on the big stage.)
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