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What else but White guilt, “We’ll show you we’re not bigots!” explains Carson poll numbers?
Coach is Right ^ | 11/1/15 | Kevin "Coach" Collins

Posted on 11/01/2015 8:14:56 AM PST by Oldpuppymax

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1 posted on 11/01/2015 8:14:56 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: Oldpuppymax

How about: we appreciate his character, values, and leadership ability? And maybe we’re living MLK’s dream.


2 posted on 11/01/2015 8:17:17 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Trump/Cruz - Because you gotta win, first.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

I think that’s part of it, but it’s also the evangelicals. Same people who love Huckabee, even though he’s a crypto-lib.


3 posted on 11/01/2015 8:18:58 AM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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What else, but White guilt, (we will show you we are not bigots!) explains 33% saying the economy is their top issue and only 3% saying Carson is the man to fix it... translating into 20 to 27% support for him?

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4 posted on 11/01/2015 8:19:45 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Oldpuppymax

I think there is a lot of Bradley effect going on. Carson is just such a poor candidate on the issues.


5 posted on 11/01/2015 8:19:52 AM PST 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: Oldpuppymax

If Carson were white, there’s no way anyone would be taking him seriously


6 posted on 11/01/2015 8:23:49 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: Oldpuppymax

White guilt exist on the Republican side as well esp the rich/elites/establishment


7 posted on 11/01/2015 8:24:09 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: Oldpuppymax

“Coach is wrong.”


8 posted on 11/01/2015 8:24:18 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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9 posted on 11/01/2015 8:24:34 AM PST by rickmichaels
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To: Oldpuppymax

Oh FFS.

1) There were a lot of clowns who said this about Obama. Guess who won the last two elections?

2) Carson is obviously a brilliant guy, very devout in his Christian faith, soft-spoken yet very clear, and appreciates his country.

3) Only FReepers seem to know much about his past opinions and how it doesn’t square with what he appears to be espousing on the campaign trail. Frankly, the same can be said of Trump, so Trump supporters don’t have a leg to stand on there, and they know it.

I have no intention of voting for Carson, but we could do a hell of a lot worse (see current WH occupant). To make this a purely racial thing is absurd and a waste of energy and brain cells.


10 posted on 11/01/2015 8:25:30 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: LydiaLong

Oh really?


11 posted on 11/01/2015 8:25:44 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Trump supporters hang up on pollsters, and some of Cruz’s do too.


12 posted on 11/01/2015 8:26:07 AM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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No, I don’t think it has anything to do with ‘white guilt.’ There just appears to be, out of the huge well of anti-establishment sentiment, a lot of people who find Trump a bit too abrasive for their tastes. In addition to perhaps being questionable on values/social issues.

I’m rather glad to see Carson the beneficiary of this, as opposed to Huckabee. Cruz might have been (and probably should have been), but I’m guessing he stubbed his toe at the starting gate on a few issues like expanding H-1B, the Corker bill, and Obamatrade, deflating some enthusiasm for him at a crucial moment.


13 posted on 11/01/2015 8:27:43 AM PST by greene66
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To: Oldpuppymax

Another infantile personal attack posting.

Here a notion, make a case FOR your candidate rather the posting these childish personal attacks.


14 posted on 11/01/2015 8:29:55 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: ctdonath2

All that is missing is a video of Mom and an apple pie from the oven...

He is not what he seems, and I agree White I am not a racist mentality and let’s give them a “chance” we can all join hands and sing kumbaya...


15 posted on 11/01/2015 8:31:16 AM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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16 posted on 11/01/2015 8:31:25 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:21)
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To: Oldpuppymax

I think a lot of it is also the “NPR effect”. They associate anyone who talks in a low, thoughtful manner as smart. Therefore they think by association, they look smarter.


17 posted on 11/01/2015 8:32:55 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

It real simple.

GOP voters hate the DC Establishment. They have been continually betrayed by their Party Leaders. So they are looking for someone to go clean out the DC stables. These same people are not comfortable with Trumps bombast and loose cannon behavior. Carson is anti Establishment without all of Trumps baggage.

Trump gets away from this loose cannon ways and hammers his economic message harder and harder, and he can win over those Carson voters to him.

What he cannot do is talk about Bush and 09-11 like a Democrat and expect the same people who elected Bush 2xs to look with favor on his candidacy


18 posted on 11/01/2015 8:34:08 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: ctdonath2

LoL

Your post is self explanatory


19 posted on 11/01/2015 8:35:33 AM PST by wardaddy (I want to destroy the GOPe and beltway elite as much as defeat the Democrats)
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To: Future Snake Eater
To make this a purely racial thing is absurd...

I agree. And so I wonder...does the author really believe what he's saying here, or does he have an agenda of some sorts?

At any rate, I only know of one of my friends who is supporting Carson. But she is doing so because she sees Carson as a quiet, thoughtful outsider, sort of a toned-down Trump.

20 posted on 11/01/2015 8:36:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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