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From the Editors’ Desk: Ben Carson Endorses Donald Trump
Published in Politics
Ben Carson is a great American, through and through.
All you have to do to get Ben Carson’s endorsement is compare him to a child molester.
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…”
That was a strong endorsement.
I can’t say that I’m really disappointed, because I was never invested in Carson in the first place. My opinion of Carson has dropped another notch or two, but that’s about it. I’ll return to not thinking about him shortly.
Officially repudiating everything he claimed to have stood for, and effectively ending his career in politics. Good move.
When thinking about this this morning, my mind connected Chris Christie’s endorsement and odd behavior last Saturday, Carson’s “he is a different person in private than in public”, and Trump’s suspected ties to the mafia.
The FG Wife was a big Carson fan.
Now she’d burn his audiobook if she could.
It was, and so different from what we have constantly heard from Barack Obama and his party. Ben Carson can really make one feel his commitment to inclusiveness.
I can’t watch it.
<Run Thinking>
Data Input: Carson endorses Trump
If/Then/Else: If Cognitive dissonance then Demote Carson else Elevate Trump in my thinking.
Loop: Until resolved
<End Program>
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Mental crash. Must reboot brain.
This is only true if your assumptions about Donald Trump are accurate and he is the horrible Democrat in disguise.
If Ben Carson has reason to believe that he and Donald Trump agree in a host of issues, then this is a smart move for Ben Carson.
I don’t think Trump is the monster many around here seem to think he is. He is not who I would choose for President by any means, but the fact that people whom we respected 10 days ago are all of a sudden lining up behind this guy should at least give you some pause in judging Trump so harshly. They are seeing something that perhaps hatred in the midst of a campaign is preventing others from seeing.
Also, best speech by Carson since that breakfast take down of you know who.
Carson’s endorsement speech could actually convince me to support Trump if I didn’t have Trump’s own behavior, positions, and speechifying to contradict him. If there are two Donald Trumps, which one do we get when he has power: The nice one that convinced Carson to endorse him or the one who shows grandiosity, braggadocio, vindictiveness, will-to-power, divisiveness based on ethnicity, ignorance of policies, etc.?
Who’s Trump’s next endorsement Gloria Steinem? Muhammad Ali? The President of Mexico?
How…expected?
I really don’t know what Trump is. I don’t believe anything he says. No one expects him to be accurate in what he says, so nothing he says registers as a lie, and somehow that leads people to conclude that he a is a “straight shooter” and “tells it like it is.” I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Given all of this, I can imagine Trump being a better president than Hillary. I can imagine him being worse also. I really don’t know. I don’t know what lies under that cloud of straight talking and telling it like it is.
Can’t bring myself to watch it.
Endorsements have never mattered much to me. But then again, I don’t have much respect for authority figures in general.
The facts about Trump are quite clear.
it wasn’t a total surprise. he couldn’t endorse Ted Cruz, the man who screwed him over in Iowa. Rubio’s campaign is pretty is about out of gas, ditto for Kasich.
“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man…” Cue the bongos. We are now entering the Twilight Zone.
Oh snap. I’m not that gloomy. But that is how this news makes me feel.
If Trump is short a few delegates, there are 8 Carson delegates to support Trump, but would they actually vote for Trump?
Has there ever been a public figure who has so thoroughly discredited himself so quickly and thoroughly as Ben Carson. It’s a good thing he has retired from brain surgery because anyone who would let Ben get within 10 yards of his brain, well, he should have his head examined.
Or maybe stop calling him one.
The endorsement explained nothing, the “why” is still completely unknown. What a crazy year.
I got nothing.
Actually, it is true if Trump is an unpleasant, boorish jerk, who supports abortion (etc…) and Carson has run himself as a socially conservative Christian. Doesn’t require nearly as much creativity as you suggest.
Craven.
Can you imagine living in a country where the president is a disgusting reality television clown who makes a mockery of everything he touches? IF that were backed up by amazingly solid ideological points, well understood and explained, I would understand some people holding their noses. But with Trump there is literally no upside.
Here’s why I’ll vote for Hillary: in 4 years, we could have another shot at the presidency. Maybe that would be enough time for us to either wake up or form a new political party out of the republican ashes.
A lot of people, including apparently Ben Carson, don’t think that he is an unpleasant, boorish jerk. That’s an opinion.
That’s false. No, he is not a crusader on the issue. But he has provided a pro-life position, with caveats, in every debate so far when the issue was raised. His answers in debates have been the Republican Party platform for generations, with the exception being that he would not pull all funding on Planned Parenthood. You know who else won’t pull funding on Planned Parenthood…a majority of elected officials in the Republican Party.
You mean the elected officials that just voted to de-fund Planned Parenthood?
Look, I get being frustrated with Republicans, for goodness sake I’m the bloody Libertarian in the room, but when you ignore reality just to stoke the fires of your rage you beclown yourselves.
Yes, those elected officials who voted to fund Planned Parenthood in every single budget of their careers until now. Umm, so are they pro-abortion too?
My point being that Donald Trump’s stated position was the Republican Party’s position on abortion in action since Roe v. Wade.
All of a sudden, that’s pro-abortion.
Mind. Blown. Dr. Carson’s essential call is for unity — behind the guy who has given us the “cuckservative” appellation, who freely donates to leftists, who freely engages in crony capitalism… we all know the list. He’s the inverse of saying one thing, and going to Washington and doing another. He said one thing campaigning, and supports the opposite of what he claimed to stand for in endorsing Trump.
Carson, like Christie, sold whatever integrity he had left in his endorsement. Unlike Christie, his integrity value was much higher. Sad.