Posted on 02/04/2016 8:21:02 AM PST by conservativejoy
Up until this week, pretty much everyone would have said that they liked Ben Carson, and that he was clearly a nice, decent man - regardless of whether they thought voting for him for President was a good idea or not. His response to the "going to Florida" controversy has revealed a completely different side of Ben Carson that we never really knew existed before.
I just had a chance to sit down and watch the entire Ben Carson presser from yesterday about the nontroversy and it is one of the most galling things I have ever seen. Carson spent the first several minutes of the press conference quoting from the Sermon on the Mount, and saying repeatedly "by your fruits you shall know them," indicating his clear belief that Ted Cruz is some sort of fake Christian because someone on his staff tweeted that Carson was suspending his campaign and going back to Florida.
Now the facts at this point are pretty much undisputed. The tweet in question came so late that it's unreasonable to claim that it had any measurable impact on Carson's performance. In fact, Carson outperformed his polling. I would imagine that well over 99.9% of the people who actually went to caucus in Iowa had any idea that the tweet had even been sent. Iowa caucus goers are not sitting there obsessively checking the twitter feeds of every single person who works for all of the campaigns. The claim (set forth by Donald Trump, who is using Ben Carson shamelessly in this circumstance) that it caused any significant number of people to vote for Cruz instead of Carson is patently ludicrous.
But moreover, look at the number of astonishing admissions Carson makes within the following 90 second clip:
He admits, just within this window, the following facts:
*He has no knowledge or reason to believe that Ted Cruz personally knew that the tweet was being sent, or would have approved of it being sent.
*Ted Cruz called him personally and apologized for the tweet and furthermore publicly apologized to the press for it having been sent.
*The genesis of this story was that Ben Carson's own staffer spoke out of turn to the press about Carson's plans.
*He, Ben Carson, takes no responsibility for the actions of that staffer.
*When pressed on the obvious hypocrisy of his position - to wit, that Cruz is a bad Christian because one of his staffers spoke out of school, but that Ben Carson has no responsibility for one of his own staffers doing the same thing - Carson responded with worse pettiness and sulking petulance than we have come to expect from Donald Trump.
This is an ugly situation and Carson's response to it is even uglier. Carson is smart enough to know better than the crap he is spewing right now. Remember that he profusely apologized for questioning Donald Trump's Christianity (even though Donald Trump is obviously not a Christian in any meaningful sense of the word) but he feels fine doing it to Ted Cruz based on something that Ted Cruz was obviously not personally responsible for.
Petty, dishonest, and hypocritical. These are not things that will help Carson's image as a "nice guy" within the GOP.
TEDstate now bashes Carson.
They are really disgusting.
Care to point out mistakes in the article?
No, because I think cheating another person out of their votes is disgusting. Don’t care who it is. It reeks.
But if it makes you feel good.
I think that that is what you meant to write.
Regards,
Good non answer, you should be in politics.
hmm Red State???
I noticed that too the site has become an organ of the Ted Cruz campaign.
One of Carson’s top money guys and most (all?) of his NH leadership team recently jumped to Cruz. I don’t know why but would guess that they saw Cruz as the more viable candidacy in the social conservative “lane.” My speculation is that Ben is frustrated by his team jumping ship.
“TEDstate now bashes Carson.”
Yeah. No reason to say it in this manner.
But the worst bashes of Carson, personal and truly slimy, were Trump’s.
The things Trump said about Carson were reprehensible.
This is a new low for Red State. They hate Trump with a visceral, gnawing hate that his consuming them.
Dr. Carson is a man of integrity, everyone knows that. He never said he was quitting just going home after Iowa, been there a week .As soon as he heard the rumor, he quashed it.
Cruz saw the entrance polls and turnout and panicked. Went out to 1,500 districts with the lie. Only needed 4 votes per district to end up with what he got.
RedState should be banned
Naw, just an average Joe who can spot bullsh!t when he sees it.
Keep digging.
I refuse to read anything by Leon Wolf. He is the worst.
I was quite surprised by Dr Carson’s piling on too. Both he and Cruz are brothers in Christ, so why didn’t he follow the Scriptural admonition???
Matthew 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
*** new low for Red State ***
I am sure they will continue their descent, and come up with even more lows. They keep digging to the bottom.
Or are you too busy hurling lame and unjustified epithets at the one candidate your guy fears? If you Trump acolytes had any sense, you'd realize that Rubio is the guy who can dump the Trump. Rubio is perfectly happy watching you attack Cruz, based only on emotion, and free from any push back. Hope you like open borders. We get what we deserve.
Dr. Carson has not taken any responsibility for what his own campaign released to the press. At the same time, he demands that Cruz hold his campaign people responsible for what CNN released as a result of Carson’s own campaign’s actions.
As Carson was leaving the campaign trail before the Iowa results were even announced, and eight days before another election, at least half of his staff in N.H. left his campaign and joined Cruz’s staff. Golly gee, wonder why people thought this was significant?
Carson has proven time and again that he can’t manage his own campaign, much less the country. He needs to make his exit from the race official.
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