Not accepting defeat and questioning the results, are we so attuned to losing that we can’t recognize how to defend ourselves and win?
We’ve been PC ed to death and taught to celebrate getting a “participation trophy”.
No thanks.
Whining isn't winning.
No rules were broken, there are zero grounds to have the results invalidated. That makes this whining, as opposed to a legitimate complaint about the integrity of the process.
"My opponent is telling lies about me" is a classic non-response way of not addressing allegations - all candidates make these about their opponents, including Trump. They are counted by actually countering them, something that is admittedly hard to do when you have spent no effort putting people on the ground to actually speak up on your behalf in a caucus.
(Besides, in my opinion, none of them are lies in the first place. Trump's "record" is essentially the history of his public statements, and they're all over the map enough over his lifetime that virtually any label you want to place on him will probably be justified.)
As for the Carson stuff, most of that blame falls squarely on the Carson camp. No NH/SC events scheduled and the candidate, who's been continuing to falter in the polls since his peak, saying he's going home back to Florida after Iowa. Sure gives the impression he's going to quit, even if that's not accurate.
That said, who'd be swayed by that anyway? What idiot would actually carry a campaign all the way to Iowa only to bow out the day of the caucus? You've gotten that far, might as well at least roll the dice. Quitting only makes sense after the results, assuming bad ones (c.f. Huckabee).