Reminiscent of the “I meant to vote for Al Gore but voted for Bush” days.
Wow, if a person is so easily devastated maybe they should never get out of bed. She strikes me in the same way as people that go to pieces at the news of the death of a performer, I just can’t fathom it. Is this article supposed to tug at my heart and instill within me a rage against Cruz? Sorry no sale.
Carson got 10% of the entrance poll taken before the Cruz campaign lie and he finished with 10% after the final vote taken.
Impact was zero on actual voters.
What is the next phony attack on Cruz which will be manufactured?
Anyone interested in, you know, issues??
Sounds like the fainting couch got a workout.
Waahhhhh!
I’m a VICTIM!
I fear Dr. Carson has fallen and hit his head or something...
OR been totally captured by the Ted Cruz despising media...
And through that media, is enjoying his victimhood.
Meanwhile, what about MY country, Dr. Carson???
Interesting also is if this story is to be believed, had not that lady checked her smart phone, no one in the room would have been aware of the situation.
That means the Cruz people on site were not aware of it, nor spreading false stories.
Carson banging on about this reminds me exactly of the overblown hype of deflate-gate and the Patriots vs. the Colts.
A slightly under-inflated football is NOT the reason you lost by 5 touchdowns.
Did she change her vote? Nope.
Did she check with the Carson campaign to confirm the story? Nope.
Was the Carson campaign AWOL on election night? Yep.
Did Carson essentially drop out of the race? Yep.
I can see right now that Ben Carson is preparing to pin the impending failure of his campaign (and every other negative event in his adult life) on Ted Cruz. “My world was perfect, PERFECT!, until Ted Cruz came down from Canada and bulldozed my sand castle dreams without batting an eye!!”
Oh puhlease. What a nothing issue.
I’m sorry, but did Ben go back to selling books?
You know I’m a Trump guy. It was just fricking Iowa. One delegate difference. Just watch can’t trust Ted in the future and let’s move on to New Hampshire please!
An obvious lie. Nobody ever said "and he's endorsed Ted Cruz".
Reports that Trump people were telling voters that Cruz is not eligible are ignored.
This is an orchestrated attack on Ted Cruz.
Reasonable people should be able to agree that at this point it’s clear that the Cruz campaign spreading the story that Carson was dropping out had no meaningful impact on the delegates awarded. It also seems unlikely that the false claim, easily disproven by the check of a smartphone, had any impact at all in terms of votes.
That being said, Cruz sending his surrogates out to spread a lie about a fine, honest conservative like Dr. Carson is a rotten thing to do. It shows that the conservative movement is not what Cruz is truly interested in, but winning at all costs.
I lost any interest in Trump early on when he would condemn Politico one day as being a lying rag if they ran a story about him, and then the next day use a story against Carson or Cruz, from Politico, that was even MORE ridiculous, to beat over another conservative candidate’s head. He clearly wasn’t interested in the conservative movement, just his candidacy. Especially in contrast to Cruz, who never betrayed other conservatives using idiotic left-wing nonsense.
But Cruz lying about Carson had the same effect on my enthusiasm for Cruz. I naively thought we had an heir to Reagan in Cruz, but when he p*ssed on Reagan’s 11th commandment, I knew I had been duped.
You can criticize another conservative, campaign against him, heck you can do damn near anything. But once you lie and tarnish another conservative, it shows your core.
So now I’m stuck back on the fence, with heart still with Dr. Carson, but aware of the fact that his break in campaigning to promote his book backfired and he lost himself the race.
Finally, to all the Cruz and Trump supporters, I envy you to some extent. That you can so easily look past the things that others like me find so repulsive about these candidates. I don’t know how you can, and I’m sure life would be easier if I could.
The non story about nothing that will not die. OMG, someone was disappointed, how can we ever make it up to her?
We can’t. Never will she be whole again. Never shall she be a proper mother to those Haitian children. And we, all of us, must be held accountable and suffer guilt pangs for the rest of our.pathetic lives.
I know, I am going to plant a tree in her name. It shall be a non genetically modified, native species.
Bottom line, IMHO.
Cnn has gotten so much more out of this than they could have hoped for.
You all were squawking that it was no big deal because no one complained. Now we have somebody who indeed is upset and you’re all dumping on her like you did on Palin.
You guys stink.
This story is five days old. Has a single vote-switcher with a name and pulse come forward?
Carson’s campaign has been over for months!!!!
Repeating....Cruz won....get over it.