Posted on 03/11/2016 7:32:13 PM PST by poconopundit
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Today's Carson / Trump press conference was an extraordinary event. It answered many questions about the two's relationship. Both men captivated us with their 45 minute talk where they spoke about each other and explained their passion for the mission ahead: to put America back on the course of greatness.
From the beginning of the race, we could sense the men liked and respected each other. But until today we never quite knew what Carson thought about Trump's political take down of Carson last year.
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As you'll recall, in his autobiography, Gifted Hands, Carson claimed he was a violent youth who once chased his mother with a hammer and even tried to stab his best friend with a knife that fortunately hit his friend's belt buckle instead, thus saving his life.
Trump didn't buy that story, called it a lie and out-of-character with the mild-mannered doctor everybody knew. Voters agreed with Trump's assessment, and shortly thereafter Carson's polling numbers began to steadily decline.
But Carson told us today he holds no grudge against Trump and that he viewed the take down as a necessary aspect of the political game.
In fact, Carson revealed that he and Trump are in full synch on a number of issues, especially in education where Carson will now assume a key leadership role on the Trump Team.
Yet the biggest surprise of the Mar-a-Largo presser was Carson's praise of Trump's brain! Carson revealed that inside the fierce counter-puncher, there's a real "cerebral" guy.
Discovering the cerebral side of Trump is a no-brainer, of course, if you've read a Trump book or two like Art of the Deal or Think Like a Champion. But for the many doubting Thomases out there, Carson's "close encounter" with The Donald may have expanded a few minds.
This was Carson at his best, a man of great accomplishment, intellect, and character shedding light on what Trump is really like. And his personal testimony was all the more powerful because Carson is a Trump peer: a Christian, citizen politician, and wounded warrior of the Presidential Wars.
The Carson / Trump match up reaffirms that 2016 will be a triumph of Character over Corruption. And the following Ralph Waldo Emerson passage seems to bolster that very point:
This is the history of governments, -- one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end, not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence. Of all debts, men are least willing to pay taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money's worth, except for these.
Hence, the less government we have, the better, -- the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private Character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.
That which all things tend to educe, which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king.
To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary.
Politics from Essays: Second Series (1844)
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Ben Carson Endorses Donald Trump FULL Press Conference (3-11-16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjeM6jnX32M
Trump calls Club For Growth “extortionists” at 23:15, ha ha!
39.09 Carson about Rules for Radicals.
Don’t give up your day job.
Several people calling in to radio today were just aghast that Carson would endorse Trump.
Some were screaming “DOESN’T HE KNOW WHO TRUMP IS???”
I was screaming back at the radio...”HE KNOWS TRUMP BETTER THAN YOU DO !!!”
Great, Digger!
Carson’s a good guy.
November 12, 2015. CNN.
Donald Trump said Thursday that Ben Carson's self-described "pathological temper" is incurable -- adding that it's like the sickness of a "child molester."
"It's in the book that he's got a pathological temper," Trump told "Erin Burnett OutFront," speaking about Carson's autobiography. "That's a big problem because you don't cure that ... as an example: child molesting. You don't cure these people. You don't cure a child molester. There's no cure for it. Pathological, there's no cure for that."
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What kind of person endorses someone who compared him to a child molester?
Wonder what Ben was offered?
A better America.
A christian who forgives.
A Christian?&nsbp; Maybe a man who cares less about winning and more about his country and his fellow man.
And another thing, if you check what Trump actually said, Trump did not specifically call Carson a child molester, but I do agree he went to far in mentioned the term child molester and making that association.
But he’s not a Christian, according to Trump.
That seems to have been settled between Ben, Donald and their God. Why in the world are you putting yourself into the matter? got no life?
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