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.
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Percentage wise he essentially tied Bush and Kasich. If Kasich stays so should Carson. And he’s right about the delegates. He got just as much as the other candidates save for Trump.
“His borderline unethical fundraising practices have already been well documented and his willingness to continue to bilk his (largely elderly) fundraising base out of their meager savings for his failed Presidential campaign in order to advance his own personal profile is flatly despicable.”
Damn strait.
You already are signed up John - I notice that there are not as many of your group here today.
After Nevada and Super Tuesday the realization will set in. Ted won Iowa - by a few thousand votes, and with lots of hard work by others he might win Texas. That will be it.
Remember Beck at Waterloo?
Red Who ?
Race is being played but not how you think it is
I cant stand the “WE HAVE TO Elect a black we have to elect a woman we have to elect the soup du jour” Crowd
Race is being played but not how you think it is
I cant stand the “WE HAVE TO Elect a black we have to elect a woman we have to elect the soup du jour” Crowd
Carson is a spoiler with no chance of winning.
Maybe he is running for a VP slot. He would be a good politically correct choice.
Most evangelicals home school
Uncle Ben is a Film - Flam man, hawking books to the dimwitted.
I know but they generally do not support Charlatans
I think you’re right about the motivation of Red State. I understand that motivation, as a Cruz supporter myself. (Although having convinced his supports that Cruz is a terrible person, Carson’s votes would likely go to Trump anyway.)
But 2 + 2 still equals 4, no matter the motive for saying it. The fact remains that Carson has zero chance, and Carson knows it. If it were just a few rich suckers funding his campaign, we shouldn’t worry about. But Carson’s campaign is funded by population of older, religious people of modest means. These are the people he’s bilking, and that’s just plain evil.
I would guess that he is drawing a paycheck from Trump
The guy has every right to stay in the campaign, but I’ve said from the start that most of these candidates are just along for the publicity — to lay the groundwork for a career afterwards. That’s no different than most of the other presidential candidates in my lifetime.
Carson has NO chance but he greatly diminishes Cruz.
Hmmmm
Wonder if he is being paid to stay in.
Wolfe is active this morning.
He is ticked off because he probably thinks Carson kept his boy Cruz from second place in South Carolina. For Carson, it is probably a pleasant payback for what Cruz did to him in Iowa.
You would think that if Cruz were the titanic candidate his supporters make him out to be, he would not be affected at all by Carson, if Carson is that small.
He can also influence the dialog in ways that only a candidate can.
That is very possible.
It is lookind like it will be a Trumpnamee,a Trumpnado.
So what is the plan people? because I dont trust this guy.
I say we get his feet to the fire NOW
I can’t see Carson’s votes benefitting Cruz. At best they split even, and more likely more of them go to Cruz opponents, than to Cruz.
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