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Ben Carson is political malpractice
http://theweek.com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 11/09/2015 10:23:53 AM PST by NKP_Vet

The movement from inspirational speaker to president of the United States is a difficult one. Ben Carson found this out the hard way when a higher level of scrutiny was applied to his biography last week. But there are plenty of reasons beyond the admissions office of West Point as to why Carson should never have even attempted it, and why evangelicals should cease to back him.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bencarson; carson; elections
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"He is pulling evangelical influence and resources away from candidates who can win, which ultimately enhances the grip of the more secular, more liberal Republican establishment. This is political malpractice."
1 posted on 11/09/2015 10:23:53 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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The Attempted Destruction Of Ben Carson: All According To GOP Establishment Plan

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357822/posts

NKP_Vet: Boss, they are on to us, what do I do.

Karl Rove: You know the drill. You take the RED pill and we deny we ever heard of you.


2 posted on 11/09/2015 10:25:32 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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Funny, I thought it was America where anybody could run for POTUS being of the proper age and citizenship status.


3 posted on 11/09/2015 10:26:35 AM PST by jwalsh07 (.)
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Hmm looking at the polling data Carson is the one beating Hillary by the widest margins.

Using this author’s logic, everyone else should drop out so Carson can beat Hillary.

Past time the Attack bots learn their opinions are not facts.


4 posted on 11/09/2015 10:27:05 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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5 posted on 11/09/2015 10:29:51 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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Carson is:

Against the Second Amendment;

Is for Amnesty...said immigrants should work on farms, because Americans won't do the jobs immigrants would do;

Has discussed how Germany and World History would be altered if Jews were armed in the 30’s in Germany;

He is for closing down the VA;

He believes in abolishing Social Security and Medicare;

He was a liberal, as he says ‘just like Trump’ but it's not a problem;

He spends money like a drunken sailor;

He said he didn't want to go into Iraq and Afghanistan but wants to fight ISIS;

His aide wants him to put Farrakhan in charge of public policy in Chicago;

He says he has the same goals as Al Sharpton;

Didn't do abortions, but sent people to people that do them.

6 posted on 11/09/2015 10:32:09 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, I hope you do too!!!)
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I see the new lie “churn and burn” campaign.

Carson raises $23 million, spends $10 million and that now equals “churn and burn” according to the DC media Machine

Hillary Clinton on the other hand:

Raised 97 Million, spent $49, million-”tough smart campaigner”


7 posted on 11/09/2015 10:32:43 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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Carson shouldn’t bother answering all of these charges.

Instead he should do what the leftists do - simply attack those making the charges as racists.


8 posted on 11/09/2015 10:33:56 AM PST by skeeter
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He may have been poor, but his mother worked 2 or 3 jobs and was gone sometimes from 5 a.m. - 11 p.m. at night. He said in one interview, she would hide money under her mattress and even paid cash for a new car. I’m not so sure he was all that poor. Who knows? I’m finding it very difficult to believe much of what he says.


9 posted on 11/09/2015 10:33:57 AM PST by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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Dear MBD; Just go back to kissing Zer0’s butt.


10 posted on 11/09/2015 10:37:37 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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That’s OK..who cares about those so called “evangelicals’ ???

the Christians still love him...


11 posted on 11/09/2015 10:40:19 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Has discussed how Germany and World History would be altered if Jews were armed in the 30’s in Germany;
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what’s wrong with this one ???

World history is about to be repeated if the Jews and Christians in Germany are not armed...


12 posted on 11/09/2015 10:42:06 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Cut the $h!t. There is journalistic malpractice, and this article is a prime example of it.
The only reason why the entire left is dumping on Carson is that he threatens the left’s stranglehold on power. Carson’s election would destroy the entire leftist power structure.
The a$$whole who wrote the article has assumed that Carson is guilty.
Anybody who holds Carson to a higher standard, can go $h!t in a hat. Be fair or shut up.


13 posted on 11/09/2015 10:42:34 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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she would hide money under her mattress and even paid cash for a new car.
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probably new to her...

and if youre low income you usually don’t have got credit to pay off a car with a loan...you have to pay the total in cash up front...


14 posted on 11/09/2015 10:45:28 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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A you can buy a jalopy for 200 bucks.


15 posted on 11/09/2015 10:49:04 AM PST by miss marmelstein (I support Trump but refuse to engage in the lynching of Ben Carson.)
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On Nov. 11, 1938, on the basis of the weapons law, the regime issued an order prohibiting Jews from owning weapons of any kind, including swords, which many Jewish army veterans had kept as mementos from World War I. This order was issued just one day after the Kristallnacht pogrom, during which Nazi mobs attacked Jews and destroyed synagogues.

If the United States is going to arrive at a workable compromise solution to its gun problem, it will not be accomplished through the use of historical analogies that are false, silly and insulting. Similarly, coming to terms with a civilizations breach of the magnitude of the Holocaust requires a serious encounter with history, rather than political sloganeering that exploits history as a prop for mobilizing one’s base.

And it goes with Carson's wanting to go against the Second Amendment....

16 posted on 11/09/2015 10:51:41 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, I hope you do too!!!)
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the Christians still love him...

Just like they did Carter and look how that turned out.

17 posted on 11/09/2015 10:54:03 AM PST by Abby4116
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Christian doctors do not refer women to abortion providers. Christians I know are humble men and don’t have to have an “I love me” house, with his pictures and certificates/awards as wall paper all through the house, to include a painted portrait of himself and Jesus Christ together. The man has deep issues he needs to deal with.


18 posted on 11/09/2015 10:55:21 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Tennessee Nana

He specifically said a “new” car. Maybe she didn’t believe in banks - why else would she keep money under her mattress?


19 posted on 11/09/2015 11:00:37 AM PST by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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Ben Carson found this out the hard way when a higher level of scrutiny was applied to his biography last week.

The hypocrisy is that a higher level of scrutiny was NEVER applied to Obama. Dr. Ben Carson is far better qualified to serve as POTUS than Obama or any other leftist Democrat, all supported by a corrupt leftist media.

20 posted on 11/09/2015 11:04:31 AM PST by olezip
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