I liked “Gentle Ben.” A fine man, very intelligent thinker. I would most certainly have voted for him had he been our nominee. I wish him well.
I have no doubt Carson is a fine accomplished American of worth - as are many, many others.
I feel, however that conservatives, Republicans, or against-liberals sometimes fall prey to that “we need a person of color on our side” mentality. He fit that bill and had credentials and a presence (at first) that reasonably supported that wish.
I didn’t mind his being thrust into that special arena as long as the rhetoric matched the wish. But when he uttered that crazy equivalent “you should only be allowed to have an assault type weapon if you live in the country,” he lost me.
The truth is that he was a candidate of wishful benevolent thinking to whom all sorts of accommodations were made and he finally still came up short in the end in a never ending sequence of odd behaviors IMO. In the end, my assessment is that if he were white, we’d never have even known his name or who/what he really is.
Yet locally - as of last week - there were still more Carson signs in peoples' yards than Jeb! signs (which have been conspicuous by their absence since day one).
Mr. niteowl77
Carson was clearly a good man, but he relied upon advisors & consultants who were more interested in lining their pockets than they were in advancing Carson. Cruz & Trump have not been gullible enough to make that mistake — quite the contrary, they are both running well oiled and well designed & managed campaigns.
I didn’t know at first what to think about his books he wrote and what they had in them, was worried to be honest...
But as the campaign went on, and I listened to him, in an odd sort of way, he was saying the same thing as we were, just in a quite, subdued sort of way...
IMHO, I think the accident that killed one of his staff workers took a big toll on him...he paid all the bills for that horrific accident by the way...took life out of the campaign also...
I wish him well, and will keep an eye out for new books he plans on writing...
After playing clips of his CPAC speech on Fox the talking heads were stunned and wondered why he didn’t give such a great speech before. He did. They wanted to watch the circus surrounding Trump. I still want him in the next administration.
That quote is from Samuel Johnson, not Ben.
Ben couldn’t generate emotional support among the electorate.
What gets me about Carson is he has never spoken out about Obama-s abuse of the Bully Pulpit and the resultant conflicts plus assults and murders that came from it. Begining with revenge for Treyvon Martin attacks on non blacks by black gangbangers which resulted in about a score (20) of deaths and serious injuries.
One who has spoken out about it is Miilwaukee county Sheriff David Clarke (D) who by the way is ran for re election this month. and won Primary Feb 16th .
Thats a issue Trump could have used when Carson held a brief lead in the Iowa polls. Instead Trump set out and accused him of being everything from a pedophile, crazy, and questionable surgeon involved in abortions. Trump was unrelenting and cost Carson his polling lead during the November run up. Dragging this campaign into the mud.
He beat the point spread: he was a nice guy who didn’t finish last.
Autopsy results: the man’s campaign died of excessive whining.
I don’t like the way Trump treated Ben.