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Donald Trump to Ben Carson: You’re Fired… From My VP Team
The Daily Beast ^ | May 20, 2016 | Gideon Resnick

Posted on 05/21/2016 12:19:06 PM PDT by EveningStar

Ben Carson has the ability to say everything he shouldn’t at exactly the wrong time.

Since the former neurosurgeon has taken up the role of working on Donald Trump’s vice presidential team, he has suggested that the candidate may pick a Democratic running mate, dropped she-who-must-not-be-named Sarah Palin as a potential pick and earlier generally questioned a number of the presumptive nominee’s habits from his Twitter use to lack of pragmatism.

So he was off the VP team in a hurry.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New York
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To: patriot08

Col. West has the opposite problem of Dr. Carson. West ALWAYS appears to be short fused and pissed off. ALWAYS! Yes, there are many good reasons to be that way, so very true. But for leadership, or Vice-leadership, we need someone more multi-fauceted, less two dimensional, able to show many sides of his personality to the public.


41 posted on 05/21/2016 12:53:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: patriot08

Unless there is something in his past we don’t know about, Alan West would be a great choice for VP. For all your reasons, plus a few practical ones.....


42 posted on 05/21/2016 12:55:10 PM PDT by HalfFull ("The only thing new is the history you don't know.")
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To: EveningStar

Look Trump is treating Carson like a mushroom. Keeping him in the dark and feeding him shite. He needs to give Carson some BS job to keep him happy so he continues to endorse Trump for President. I guess the VP search team was too much for him. Let’s face it Ben Carson is a DoDo bird. I wouldn’t let the guy near me with a scalpel. :-)


43 posted on 05/21/2016 12:58:45 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: EveningStar

Allen West. Just sayin’.


44 posted on 05/21/2016 1:00:45 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: EveningStar

Personally, I would have picked a more politically savvy
person than Dr Carson to head the VP selection group.
Part of the job is to float a few names for public
consumption and Dr Carson has a propensity to talk more
than he needs to. The way Carson was dismissed seems a
little too crude, also. It could have been announced that
he was moving to another position within the campaign.
That would have saved some embarrassment and the appearance
of disorganization.


45 posted on 05/21/2016 1:05:10 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Throw a strand against the wall...if it sticks...done.


46 posted on 05/21/2016 1:05:19 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: HalfFull

My reasons for West for VP weren’t practical? :)
Just having a politician not PC crippled and willing to tell the truth about Islam is pretty practical- and vitally important.

Did you watch the video and hear what he told the marine about Islam?


47 posted on 05/21/2016 1:07:24 PM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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To: lee martell

Col West can be Secretary of the Army.


48 posted on 05/21/2016 1:07:52 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: BiggerTigger

incapable of boiling spaghetti......You boil it?


49 posted on 05/21/2016 1:11:08 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: castlegreyskull

That’s where he is needed, and what fits his present skill set. Don’t waste time going on ‘The View” or Good Morning America” unless he just wants to kick up some rhetorical dust for publicity. Hosts like Mika Bryzenski and Charlie Rose would ‘feel threatened and even offended!’.


50 posted on 05/21/2016 1:13:16 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: EveningStar

He should lay off the grain for awhile


51 posted on 05/21/2016 1:15:02 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: lee martell

Did you watch the video?
He is one of the few with the guts to explain the muslim’s bloody agenda to rule the world.
It’s time stupid Americans learned this.
(And he has every right to be pi$$ed off)

He doesn’t always look angry. He usually is very calm and pleasant when interviewed.

But of course, the Rinos and GOPe would never stand for a man of this caliber to be VP.
He’s too Conservative and decent.


52 posted on 05/21/2016 1:15:22 PM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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To: EveningStar

Never hire a knife stabber as a VP vetter.


53 posted on 05/21/2016 1:17:35 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: EveningStar

Nothing in politics is by chance. This is all for show. I don’t know why but it is. Trump has my vote even if it means broken glass crawling.


54 posted on 05/21/2016 1:18:15 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Crawling over broken glass to end the establishment...go Trump.)
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To: BiggerTigger

Can’t boil spaghetti? C’mon, how hard is that?

First you put pot of water in an oven preheated to 212 degress..


55 posted on 05/21/2016 1:19:14 PM PDT by billyboy15
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Ben Carson was not fired!

He just went home to do laundry.


56 posted on 05/21/2016 1:23:16 PM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Sivad

I agree with you. Carson is just not politically experienced; which is not meant as an insult, but he’s a galaxy or two apart from Trump in temperament and strategic thinking.


57 posted on 05/21/2016 1:23:52 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: lee martell

I always thought those shows like the View, Ellen and other gossip shows were below someone of Presidential material. I want a president and a leader. Now it seems like the King should also be the jester and show everyone how hip he is by dancing like an ass on Ellen or playing the sax on Arsenio Hall.


58 posted on 05/21/2016 1:28:17 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Good for Mr. Trump. Ben Carson obviously doesn’t know what he is doing.


59 posted on 05/21/2016 1:34:45 PM PDT by Chee Benny Toe
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To: EveningStar

Honestly? I don’t think Carson has been the same since Cruz up-ended him in Iowa caucuses.

Carson seemed to change before my very eyes, with grayer hair and alternating between a severe, or dazed expression on his face.

TRUMP had seemed to lift his spirits a bit, but darned if Carson didn’t take that confidence injection a tad too far, indulging in shockingly loose lip comments while making the TV rounds.

You just knew this bromance was headed for the can. Can’t imagine what got into Carson, but for TRUMP he was increasingly proving to be a loose cannon, a tactical disaster.


60 posted on 05/21/2016 1:35:46 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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