Posted on 03/02/2016 11:44:54 AM PST by Biggirl
GOP presidential candidate Dr Ben Carson is suspending his presidential campaign after failing to win a single state or collect many delegates through Super Tuesday.
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A pretty quixotic campaign from the start.
He was never going to be nominated or elected.
To defeat the Clinton machine will require a fighter.
Watch. And regardless it doesn’t matter. It’s over.
Nothing in there said he suspended his campaign, just that he wasn’t attending the debate.
A great man. Just not a President.
Last I looked, Carson finished ahead of Kasich in 7 states yesterday. Wonder if Kasich will bow out?
Obviously a lie, but who is he blaming this time? LOL!
Not an ineffective campaign given the expectations at the outset. It served to make him a household name nationwide. That’s a heckuva first step for a political career should he decide to continue to pursue one.
I had made a prediction that he would end his campaign after yesterday because he was the weakest one of the five. Kasich I do not know, he may go back to being Gov. of Ohio, and I think he does not want the VP position.
“Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who briefly led the Republican presidential race before his campaign began an extended public implosion, told his supporters in a statement Wednesday afternoon that he does not see a “path forward” and will not attend Thursday’s debate in Detroit.
Carson, however, did not formally suspend his campaign. Instead, he said in the statement that he has decided to make a speech about his political future on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, just outside Washington.
“I do not see a political path forward in light of last evening’s Super Tuesday primary results,” the statement said. “However, this grassroots movement on behalf of ‘We the People’ will continue. Along with millions of patriots who have supported my campaign for President, I remain committed to Saving America for Future Generations.””
Then there were four....
Three of whom are at loggerheads with each other and unable, individually to launch a successful drive to blunt the momentum that The Donald has built up.
I was sorry to see Gentle Ben gone, but he was as much a victim of his own campaign staff as any external circumstances.
The donations that came rolling in were used, primarily, to continue to expand the fundraising function, and only a little of it actually got into the campaign to the degree it was to spread and extend the message that Dr. Carson was trying to get to the public.
People, by and large, do not read websites. And there was not nearly the media exposure that other candidates pretty much took for granted.
That department should be abolished.
I prefer Carson to every other candidate except Trump. He is a good man.
He has been a fantastic Governor for the Buckeye state
LMAO
I read his statement on his website, and no where does it say “I am suspending my campaign”.
He says he will not be in the debate. After all, Kelly and the establishment Trump haters on FOX such as Kelly “moderating” the debate, all they do is read outrangeous statements to Trump attacking his character in the guise of “questions” and then try to formulate the “debate” such that Rubio and Cruz then attack Trump with lies or insults, they totally ignore Carson.
So why even be there? FOX debates are nothing but “stop Trump” agendas, their management has been totally exposed in the NYT article and the RNC should demand no debate if Kelly is a moderator.
I look on Drudgel no reference to anything about Carson suspendiny ... maybe he will, but I will wait. And the radio news at the top of the hour (KSFO S.F.) just before Savage reported Carson not attending the debate but he has NOT said he is droppung out.
So I am waiting.
I like Ben Carson. A gentleman, and a marked opposite to the T rumpster. Calm, cool, collected, his personna runs circles around the obnoxious, broken record, uncouth manner of the likely nominee.
But no, I never thought him Presidential material. He became a bit unhinged with the stabbing thoughts of his exposed to the world—the clear lack of world knowledge (though no different than that of the T rumpster). Finally he did not have the self-promotional temperament that must exist to some extent in any candidate.
Good luck Ben. Thanks for making a stand.
... and I would add, most all of his supporters will go to Trump, not Cruz, even if this is true. If ....
From earlier today, take a shot and run away.-
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is at the bottom of most current GOP presidential polls, but he said Saturday he doesn’t believe Republican voters are so “dense” as to nominate the current front-runner, Donald Trump.
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