Posted on 02/21/2016 8:22:29 AM PST by MLL
Ben Carson finished dead last in South Carolina last night, as the polls predicted that he would. He did not finish last due to lack of effort, or because he was focusing on some other state where he had a better chance. By Carson's own admission, South Carolina was a state where he should have done well, and where the large evangelical population should have given him a decent chance to post a good showing.
Instead, he finished behind John Kasich, a guy who spent significant portions of the last week campaigning in far flung places like Michigan. He finished well behind another candidate (Jeb Bush) who desperately needed to do well in South Carolina, and who quit the race after failing to do so.
After being spanked by the voters of South Carolina, Ben Carson took the stage and excused his loss by saying that it was entirely possible that Donald Trump would get all the delegates from South Carolina, so really he did just as well as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Therefore, he was no bigger a loser than any of the rest of them, and he would continue to press on.
While Carson's point about delegate allocation may or may not turn out to be true, his point about the viability of his campaign, in light of the message sent by South Carolina voters, is not. No person in Carson's position who is even of average intelligence would conclude that the South Carolina results mean that he has as good a chance going forward as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. And Ben Carson is a person of above average intelligence, as his supporters repeatedly claim.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
If you want to know why Trump got not only got the majority of Evangelical votes in SC, but won in every demographic, here it is.
SC today has 1/3 fewer manufacturing jobs since 1994, when NAFTA—even though the states population is 25% larger.
One of the few bright spots in SC manufacturing has been automotive plants.
Ford not only announces it will build a plant in Mexico, it subsequently announces it move production from a Tennessee plant to Mexico. It’s one thing for a company to move from high-tax, high-regulation state like Michigan, but to move a plant from a southern state that (like SC) has bent over backwards to make automotive plants welcome is a shock.
Which candidates are talking hard-ball about how to deal with companies moving their manufacturing out of the country? Only Trump.
Cruz has flip-flopped on TPP, but his “I’m the true conservative” line isn’t helping him in this instance, because the “true conservative” line is free trade. Which does nothing to keep those plants in the USA.
I’ not attacking Carson. I read the article and hadnt heard about what it stated. Thats why I asked everyone what they knew about it.
You’re right about Jeb’s voters. No place for them to go other than Rubio. What will be interesting is to see if, when and how Trump opts to go after Rubio. Trump may have to tread lightly, if he wants those supporters for himself after the dust settles.
Defeat, even a temporary one, is hard to accept; a lesson I hope you will soon learn for yourself. Time is the revelator.
Well, in addition to the trick by the Cruz campaign, he’s been dissed a few times, and face it; all his life he’s heard incessantly about victimhood. So.....
But I stick by my original opinion. He’s staying in to hold onto his supporters as long as he can.
I’m hip that the Cruz supporters think he should shut up and go home. But he’s entitled to stay as long as he can afford it.
Eh, I think he’s running either for VP or a cabinet position. But, at this point, staying in any longer looks self-serving and will hurt his chances for either.
>>He would make a good Surgeon General or even Secretary of Health in charge of dismantling Obamacare
I’m not sure about even that.
I think he’s a decent guy.
Surgeon General, Sec of Health, any of these top positions need to have a high energy bull who will relentless go after fraud and waste and wipe them out “like a dog”.
If he does pick up any delegates he might be interesting to one of the other Candidates as VP. His continued presence makes it a little more likely that this will go to a brokered convention. People might be encouraging him to stay in because of this.
Your post is the best explanation of the SC vote that I have read.
Thank you.
>>Our nation is very close to going off the cliff. . . We need to recognize that our country was designed for citizen statesmen, not career politicians.
Wise words indeed. Thank you, Dr. Carson.
NAFTA is a problem but how will Trump call that dog back?
I think Trump is capitolizing on his butthurt.
“Red State wants Carson votes for Ted.”
At the rate that Carson is going, he isn’t going to have any votes to shift to anyone.
So Carson is personally stuffing all the envelopes? Or does he have people (i.e. campaign staff) that handle that? And you know he believes he has no chance to win or is that simply projection? I think naive and / or incompetent might apply but to say unethical means it's all willful and there is no evidence of that, it's all speculation and so I got the point.
Well no, because the 14th Amendment merely makes black people citizens. It naturalized people who otherwise would not have citizenship.
More to the point, the 14th Amendment never says African-Americans are "natural born citizens" in the sense that Vattel understood the "natural born" concept -- and we all know that Vattel is the final word on the matter.
>> they generally do not support Charlatans <<
Does that mean evangelicals have never supported Aimee Semple McPherson, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Baaker, Benny Hinn or Pat Robertson?
Whew! I’m relieved!
>> Uncle Ben is a Film-Flam man, hawking books to the dimwitted <<
Maybe, but I’d say his rice is still pretty good stuff.
Touche! and like I always say, I have never been in a church that aint full of sinners
Exactly. I have to laugh at everything Leon writes, so filled with hatred it’s painful, yet oddly funny.
Wonder what life is like to live with so much anger and hate, and then scribble about it endlessly.
Ben Carson Will Likely Win Iowa by: Leon H. Wolf
What happened there? Why'd Leon change so much? How'd Ben break his heart?
There were articles similar to this about Huckabee and Santorum. Once people decide to run for president, they can't just stop. That would be admitting things about themselves or their place in the world than can be painful to face. Staying in the race even though you've got no real chance to win doesn't have to be malice or a scam, it may just be a way of protecting the ego from an agonizing realization.
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