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From the Editors’ Desk: Ben Carson Endorses Donald Trump
Published in Politics
Maybe I’ll watch it. The Christie endorsement made me more wary of Trump. When Christie was introducing Trump, I felt like he had an alien attached to his neck controlling his actions, or he was under a voodoo spell or something. It was creepy.
This is disappointing. Not that I think it improves Trump but because it diminishes a good man. I was not a candidate-Carson supporter because I just didn’t think he was cut out for this business and had no chance of winning.
Of the remaining candidates, Trump seems the least likely home for those who supported Carson. Besides their “outsider” status, what else do they have in common? Which begs the question, What does Carson get for this?
In terms of moving actual supporters, I think Carson’s endorsement would have meant more to any of the others than it will end up meaning to Trump. Perhaps a savvy defensive move by Trump to take Carson off the table?
Carson must really dislike Cruz.
Finally, I called my 84 year old Mom this morning because she’s a big fan of Carson and had donated generously to his campaign. She said she was sick to her stomach about the endorsement. She can’t stand Trump, is no fan of Cruz and didn’t even mention Rubio. She now lines up with Kasich (c’mon Mom, really?).
The confusion is understandable. Just a few weeks prior the Republicans voted in the Omnibus bill to fully fund Planned Parenthood.
I don’t recall any of those politicians standing on a Republican debate stage and defending the virtues and necessity of Planned Parenthood.
Say goodnight, Ben.
I just watched Trump’s introduction to Carson. Can someone please explain to me again how Trump is not a politician? He runs Carson down last year, now he says he’s wonderful. That’s fine. This is politics. But Trump is a politician. He’s the quintessential politician.
Didn’t see that one coming
Oh, Lord.
Now we must be lectured on how “There are two different Donald Trumps,” one who “sits on the stage,” and “one who is cerebral.”
I thought Ben Carson was a brain surgeon, not a psychiatrist.
And I thought Donald Trump was the no-holds-barred, give-it-to-us-straight, tell-it-like-it-is candidate.
You mean what we see is not what we’re going to get? ?
You mean he’s been lying about himself all along??
That’s not possible.
Is it?
Now, I suppose we are going to have to go through endless iterations of Donald Trump re-introducing himself, a la Hillary Clinton, to the voting public.
Watch in stupefied admiration as the amazing two-faced, double-jointed, man threads the needle between buffoonish vulgarian and insightful intellectual simultaneously keeping everyone on board who’s already there, and piping new midshipmen over the side in droves. Get ready to ‘get to know the real Donald Trump.’
Because, clearly, he’s done a very bad job of promoting himself to most of us thus far.
Thank heavens Ben is around to help steer the ship.
RyanM
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.
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Sorry Ryan that is a bridge too far. I know you were not old enought to witness her venomous performance the first trip thru DC. I could never vote for her even with all of the irritation I have for the current titular leaders in the GOP.
If it is between Trump and Clinton I will write in Micky Mouse, because only he knows who moved my cheese.
He is strongly pro-life in the past few months.
He has been pro partial birth abortion in the past.
Stop kidding yourself
I don’t plan to vote for Hillary or Trump, unless I find out something worse about one or the other, like that they are a vampire or something.
I’m amused that some people are saying they can’t vote for Trump because he doesn’t respect women. Of all the people the Democrats could nominate, they got someone who respects women even less than Trump does. Bad as he is, I’m not aware of Trump bullying rape victims.
I’m getting tired of political figures (and voters) making decisions in what can only be described as a fit of pique.
Geez, guys. Bitter much? If what I think may happen plays out…. Trump offers Cruz Veep and Cruz accepts…. looks like there’s going to be a lot of wrist-slitting here.
Based on that speech, I’m very sad it wasn’t Trump endorsing Carson.
Hey, dr bens specialty is surgically separating twins! I heard him say something like, my schizophrenic is better than your pathological liar…would these healing hands steer you wrong?
This endorsement defies the logic that Ben Carson has purported to be necessary to pick a qualified candidate. I have NO IDEA why he would choose Trump even over someone like Rubio or even Kasich. Terribly disappointing to say the least and as I stated initially it is inexplicable taken in light of ALL of his previous statements regarding how we should pick a nominee.
If Trump swore to appoint Cruz to SCOTUS, that would make it possible for me to vote for him. Even though I would be terrified by what he would otherwise do to the nation.
Ben Carson has dropped several more notches on my respect scale. :-(
Me either.
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I remember Hugh Hewitt saying that he knew Arianna Huffington at least three Ariannas ago.
Well, Ann Coulter the pragmatist and Chris Christie fan boy said that we should only support governors and senators from president, although I think vice presidents, secretaries of state, and ghosts of five-star generals are also qualified.
Someone with a record would be better. Any (expletive deleted) can say anything without a record.
I was in High-School during her trip through DC. But as I said, even with all of that, perhaps she can rally republicans to reject her in a way they never did manage to reject Obama. She is almost as disgusting as Trump, and it is likely that a challenge in 4 years would yield good results if we can pull our collective heads out of the mud. While I believe that Trump has a 0% chance of winning a general election, I think the point is moot, but my conscience could support the decision to pull for Hillary over Trump, never the other way around. If, by some miracle, Trump happened to win, we’d be stuck with him as our candidate in 2020 as well. I’m not willing to doom us to 8 years when I can doom us to 4 instead.
A) That will never happen
B) Even if he did say it, he would not follow through
C) Cruz would be blocked, and then we’d get Trump’s sister anyway
Trump offers Cruz Veep and they both lose. My wrists will be intact. I’m not a huge Cruz fan, either, so maybe we’d get someone decent for 2020. Perhaps Walker was biding his time.
And question whether his religion is as good as Trump’s.
Carson’s antics of faux indignation during the self inflicted Iowa Caucus kerfuffle eliminated any respect or consideration for him. This treachery kills any residual appreciation for his long overdue departure from a race that he was never qualified to participate in.
Why would a surgeon endorse a political candidate who incites his followers to violence?
http://youtu.be/u3fKpztpTY0
This is sickening.
Someone else made an endorsement today:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432682/ted-cruz-national-review-endorses-texas-senator-president
We went from a “deep field” of candidates and this is where we are?
How do we organize national unity for a single name write in candidate?
I just deleted Ben Carson from my FB. And he was the first ‘political’ page I ever added on my FB.
we are truly through the looking glass. Wher is the hookah-smoking caterpillar?
But I thought National Review was a bunch of America Hating RINO Leftist-Libertarian Chamber of Commerce Club for Growth Amnesty Mongering Wimps who refuse to FIGHT…this is IMPOSSIBLE. WE MUST FIGHT. ARGHLEGARBLEWARBLEFARBLE….
I guess those are the words of either a Rubio backer or a Trump backer. (Just trying to be funny.)
Ann Coulter told us Romney was the man in 2012. She was wrong then and she’s wrong now.