Posted on 12/22/2014 3:53:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The retiree that now wants to become president of the United States.
Remind me of the last time we elected someone to that office with absolutely no government experience, will you?
Carson, Paul and Gowdy support amnesty. Some of his supporters assume he is as conservative as Clarence Thomas.
Carson has some Second Amendment problems.
“...Armstrong Williams, Mr. Carsons business manager and closest adviser,... complained that Run Ben Run exists to benefit the people that run it, not the Ben whos running....”
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And that, my FReeper friends, is frequently the case with these groups run by political professionals (professional in the sense that that is where they make their living and not in the sense that they are any damned good).
It would be very interesting to see who put these folks up to this. Remember, the “split the vote” strategy is alive and well among the GOPe RINOs.
And zero foreign policy experience.
Grant might fit that criterion although he did have an extensive military background. AFAIK, he never was elected to a government office. Maybe Eisenhower too. Both men, as military leaders had plenty of executive experience.
The military is part of the government. I didn’t say “legislative.”
“Political professionals” are the lowest of the low.
I have no doubt that they will deliberately destroy their own employer so they can move on to the next candidate who pays better. In fact its likely that deals are made to destroy candidates for a higher payout.
I recall his PAC used Email to raise funds so the direct mail expense is non existent. The costs have most likely been salaries.
We used to get the Carson people guessing Washington, I liked that because it gave me the chance to use the Washington bio post that I put together, but alas, it seems that they don’t go with him anymore.
Noted. You, of course are right. Thanks for the correction.
“I recall his PAC used Email to raise funds so the direct mail expense is non existent. The costs have most likely been salaries.”
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That’s probably correct. And any “direct mail expense” costs may have been spent on “affiliated” (e.g., wife, relative or friend’s business) direct mail operatives. These political professions feed one another.
George Washington probably had more government experience than any other president, with a few possible exceptions.
This whole Ben Carson for President thing is getting really old.
It looks like my early posting on him has reached pretty wide.
I will post it anyway just in case someone hasn’t seen it yet.
George Washington had vast political experience before he became President of the United States.
Fifteen years in Virginia House of Burgesses.
George Washington served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for fifteen years before the American Revolution. After a failed bid for a seat in December 1755, he won election in 1758 and represented Frederick County until 1761. That year he ran in Fairfax County, winning a seat which he would retain until 1775.
With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
Three days later Washington joined the burgesses remaining in Williamsburg to sign a resolution calling for a meeting in August which would become the first Virginia Revolutionary convention. The membership of the five Revolutionary conventions was almost entirely made up of burgesses.
Member of the First Continental Congress.
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Virginias delegation presented the most eminent group of men in America. Colo. George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Colo. Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and at the head of them Peyton Randolph who would immediately be elected president of the convention.
Member of the Second Continental congress.
Washington served as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775. Facing a fight for independence with Britain, he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Major General and Commander-in-Chief of the colonial forces against Great Britain.
Constitutional Convention 1787.
When the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia in May 1787, Washington was elected convention president by a unanimous vote, just as he had been unanimously chosen to lead the Continental Army twelve years before.
Presidential election of 1789.
Washington was once again called upon to serve this country. During the presidential election of 1789, he received a vote from every elector to the Electoral College, the only president in American history to be elected by unanimous approval.
And he truly thinks that Carson can? Nut job.
Karl Rove and Jeb say, “Hi 5!!!”
They want nothing more than for conservatives to split their vote in the primaries. Rove and Jeb would also like to see Huckabee, Santrorum, and a few other so-called conservatives run.
Carson has ZERO chance of winning. He will only help split conservative voters so that we can have another McCain/Mitt type lose in the general election.
Isn't that ALWAYS the case? Tea Party Patriots, TPNN and TeaParty.net are such scams as well
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