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Ben Carson Spent $16 Million on Consultants, $1.3M on Campaign Payroll/Ads
Breitbart ^ | March 4, 2016 | Breitbart News

Posted on 03/05/2016 7:06:09 AM PST by COUNTrecount

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1 posted on 03/05/2016 7:06:09 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

As humor columnist Dave Barry once wrote “put a vacuum cleaner nozzle into their pocket and suck until all you get is lint.”


2 posted on 03/05/2016 7:07:59 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Add campaign consultants to the collection of economists and meteorologists—Seldom right, but they still get paid.


3 posted on 03/05/2016 7:08:48 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Incidentally -- Trump literally appropriated the ¿Jeb? campaign's attrition-through-plurality strategy: but I failed to realize, he used the high-priced parasite GOP-e consultant class to bleed his opponents dry, while being his own consultant to save money.
4 posted on 03/05/2016 7:09:31 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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it was clear from day one this guy was in over his head.

I think it’s Great that he was such a fantastic surgeon.

but he seemed so slow. kind of odd.

not slow dumb, just slow.

appearances are deceiving I guess.


5 posted on 03/05/2016 7:11:10 AM PST by dp0622
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To: COUNTrecount

That’s why Iowa wants to be first; it’s a good business move.


6 posted on 03/05/2016 7:11:54 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: COUNTrecount
Notice, too, the shock troops of the left put all their efforts into boots on the ground at the grass roots level --

people who are not afraid to get their hands dirty

and will work for free.

...while they have the Press to provide air cover.

Our equivalent is a bunch of patricians, who have Sopwith Camels armed with peashooters as their fighter planes.

...which, for them, are a great leap upwards from mounted knights riding flying ostriches where they have to keep hitting the button to make their wings flap.

7 posted on 03/05/2016 7:12:23 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: COUNTrecount

It appears BEN was in it for the book deals, the good life, and padding the pockets of his consultants.


8 posted on 03/05/2016 7:13:09 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: COUNTrecount

Sounds like the Carson campaign paid off very well for the consultants.


9 posted on 03/05/2016 7:14:09 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: dp0622

Where are Carson’s votes gonna go?


10 posted on 03/05/2016 7:14:12 AM PST by txhurl (Voted for Cruz, then Jeff if necessary.)
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To: grey_whiskers

After reading FR since about 2003-2004, I finally created an account last year when another board I posted on finally shuttered up for good. Since Ted Cruz’s fiascoes in Iowa, I have repeatedly been called every name in the book by some Cruz supporters, including numerous accusations that I’m a paid Trump shill (who lives in Mumbai, LOL).

But those astute internet sleuths never bothered to check out my post history. The reason I finally signed up was so I could gripe about Carson being an obvious fraud (back then I was 50/50 between supporting Trump and Cruz).

I genuinely feel bad for all the people who were trying to be good, peaceful Christians and donated to Carson’s scam, seeing him as a more humble version of Cruz or Trump. What he has done here borders on criminal, in my opinion. He never had any intention of winning any delegates at all. The fact that people still supported him after December, when he SUSPENDED HIS CAMPAIGN TO GO ON A BOOK TOUR, is mind-boggling.


11 posted on 03/05/2016 7:14:50 AM PST by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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spread out, I think.

Like Bush’s votes did.

I thought they would all go to another rino.

but they didn’t. spread out among the remaining three leaders at the tine I expect the same with Carson.


12 posted on 03/05/2016 7:17:56 AM PST by dp0622
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If I needed a brain surgeon, I think I’d rather not have one that acts like he’s washing down coffee grounds with Red Bull.


13 posted on 03/05/2016 7:23:58 AM PST by digger48
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To: grey_whiskers

Exactly right.

I like to say that Trump hijacked the GOP’s airplane, flew it all over the country using the media’s credit card to pay for the fuel, and the GOP elites are just now realizing they are being kicked out the door without parachutes. Even Mitt’s “Mayday” call won’t save them.


14 posted on 03/05/2016 7:24:01 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Many suspected that Carson was in the race for one purpose: cash in on the money machinery for himself and his cronies.

Some say that is the same money machinery that backed Cain in 2012.


15 posted on 03/05/2016 7:28:05 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Do you mean the Ben Carson whose top aide believes Louis Ferrakhan should be paid a salary by the government and says he shares the same goals as Alan Sharpton?

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/17/top-carson-aide-wants-taxpayers-to-fund-farrakhan/

http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/04/15/ben-carson-al-sharpton-and-i-have-same-goal


16 posted on 03/05/2016 7:31:08 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: COUNTrecount

The DC political class are money vampires. Trump scares them because he won’t do what they say


17 posted on 03/05/2016 7:40:10 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: grey_whiskers

Sounds like Reagan bankrupting the USSR


18 posted on 03/05/2016 7:41:10 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 20yearsofinternet
Too many on FR project what they want their desired candidate to BE, not who he/she actually IS.

Many jumped on the Thompson bandwagon in 2008 and never bothered to do any research. Thompson looked president on TV, after all.

I spent 5 minutes on Google and discovered that Thompson not only wrote the original Campaign Finance Reform (then, called the Thompson Feingold CFR), but he also chaired the Senate committee that put the original together.
19 posted on 03/05/2016 7:41:29 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Arm_Bears

LOL wisdom too late for me.
If there’s reincarnation I’ll know the secrets to success.


20 posted on 03/05/2016 7:41:39 AM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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