[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ben has gone full-Bush.

[Patton@Bastogne]

Ben Carson is the black version of Scott Walker or John Kasisch .... a GOPe tool ...

[TomGuy]

Too many project what they want their selectee to be, not what their selectee actually is.

For many political bandwagons, 10 minutes of google search reveals a lot of history.

[Darnright]

>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3335978/posts<

In the Top-of-the-Poll Headline News: Trump continues to lead, while the media and Jeb Bush alliances urgently work to push non-vulgarian Ben Carson into the #1 spot.

They RNC/GOPe (Wall Street interests et al) need a visible and statistical result so they can drum beat the “Donald Trump has peaked and is now slipping” message. They are urgently looking for a POLL RESULT they can sell as a ‘see-toldyaso’ breaking news alert. Carson in Iowa is their best hope at creating that narrative/optic.

[erod]

Could this sink 2015’s Herman Cain?

[TomGuy]

Carson also invoked the 'jobs Americans won't do' mantra, instead of relying on FACTS:

The 'jobs Americans won't do' have been debunked over and over.


• Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly immigrant are in fact majority native-born:
  
  
  • Maids and housekeepers: 55 percent native-born
  • Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
  • Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
  • Grounds maintenance workers: 65 percent native-born
  • Construction laborers: 65 percent native-born
  • Porters, bellhops, and concierges: 71 percent native-born
  • Janitors: 75 percent native-born
    
    
  
  
  Source: Jobs Americans Won’t Do? A Detailed Look at Immigrant Employment by Occupation
  Data from 2005 to 2007 [when GWB was claiming these were jobs Americans would not do].
  
  ==
  
  When people claim that these workers are taking jobs that Americans won't do, they ignore these statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2011 averages):
  
  
  • 77.7 percent of the 7.75 million workers in food preparation and serving jobs are native-born workers (does not include legal immigrant workers). 
  • 65.8 percent of 5.38 million workers in cleaning and maintenance jobs are native-born workers (does not include legal immigrant workers)
  • 74.5 percent of the 7.45 million workers in construction and extraction jobs are native-born workers (does not include legal immigrant workers)
  • 75.9 percent of the 7.63 million workers in production jobs are native-born workers (does not include legal immigrant workers)
  
  Source: Jobs Americans Won't Do?
  2011
  
  

[Lurkinanloomin]

I will never again vote for anyone to be President who will not enforce the laws on fraudulently documented foreigners.

What they are telling us is that laws are for citizens and suckers....

[spintreebob]

Carson has taken the consistent position of conservatives/ libertarians/ capitalists/ corporatists/ Evangelicals/ Catholics/ Republicans pre-2002.

In the historical sense of the word, the anti-illegal position based on Malthusian-Guttmacher premises is not conservative.

[hosepipe]

Ah!... Uncle Tom’s cousin Uncle Ben..

[Godebert]

When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: "It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it." (Glenn Beck Show, March 1, 2013)

[grania]

Ben has gone full-Bush

Almost makes you wonder if he hasn't gotten some Republican consultants to help him with the issues he doesn't know much about.

[SpaceBar]

I like Ben Carson. A lot.

I sure don't.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Carson said the country must “provide them a way so that they don’t have to hide in the shadows” and “give them an opportunity to become guest-workers–they have to register, they have to enroll in a back tax program.” “And if they want to become citizens they have to get in the line with everyone else… because we have to pay homage to people who’ve done it the right way,” Carson added.

Mexicorruption has already asserted their conditions for a guest worker program.

Guest workers? Ben, we have a problem

. . . before there could be a guest worker agreement Mexicorruption officials specified that

• there had to be regularization,
  • a concept that Foreign Minister Jorge G. Castañeda says must allow Mexican immigrants to
    • obtain driver's licenses,
    • Social Security cards and
    • resident tuition at colleges.
  • Mexican officials knew better than to say amnesty.

Castañeda imposed the requirement that

• any comprehensive agreement on border safety and
• guest workers must
  • include regularization for illegal workers.
  • "It's the whole enchilada, or nothing," Mr. Castañeda said.

It was pretty much on track to become law no matter what Americans thought but we were attacked by yet another enemy on 9/11 2001. From various sources including including this 2002 FR thread

Is Carson already a practicing politico to where he can feel that "we'll handle that matter when we get elected. We can count on support from the immigration industry and crony capitalism to silence the people."?

[Erik Latranyi]

...and Cruz advocates giving the illegal here work permits so they can stay and be transformed into instant citizens by a judge who does not accept two classes of residents.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think Ben Carson is probably a really brilliant doctor. I don’t want him taking the 3:00AM phone call or letting the lefties take my guns.

[SmokingJoe]

Ben Carson, excellent pediatric neurosurgeon, good family man , just not ready for primetime. In a way, you get to appreciate the long drawn out selection process for president. The wrong candidates eventually self destruct under the scrutiny.

[SaraJohnson]

Ben has not studied politics long enough to know what he actually thinks about anything of policy on a National level.

He just gets pulled along by his heart strings and Marxists know how to play that harp. He’s easily manipulated by the uniparty.