Posted on 11/13/2015 11:07:59 AM PST by Kaslin
This is the smartest possible response from a man who's admired by voters for his piety and service as a healer. He turned the other cheek:
"It's so sad watching and listening to him," Armstrong Williams said on CNN's "New Day." "I mean, a man who is so accomplished, who has been so blessed, but yet cannot fathom why Dr. Carson or anyone else would be doing better than he in the presidential race right now."
"He just cannot accept leading from behind," Mr. Williams said. "He cannot accept being challenged. He cannot reconcile how this is happening. Obviously, he only wants to be on the stage by himself, crowned the nominee, and run against the eventual Democratic challenger."
On multiple occasions Thursday, Mr. Trump likened Mr. Carson's "pathological" temper which the retired neurosurgeon has written about as a formative part of his younger years to the incurable behavior of a child molester.
Carson, added Williams, asked him to pray for Trump when he heard about Trump's rant. Influential Iowa talk-radio host Steve Deace (who's already endorsed Cruz) called Trump's tirade against Carson [m]aybe the most embarrassing 9 minutes I've ever seen from a GOP presidential candidate
There's no other way to describe this other than a complete meltdown, and if you watch the reaction of most of those sitting in the background it's clear they're not comfortable with it, either. This isn't Trump being Trump or telling it like it is. This is conduct unbecoming of the highest office in the world. I highly doubt you build a multi-billion dollar, global conglomerate talking to people like this. If his goal was to hurt Ben Carson I suspect it will have the exact opposite impact.
What's happening here is a candidacy built on saying outrageous (and often necessary) things is now like the proverbial dog who catches the car. Trump has come to the fork in the road either become even more outrageous or evolve from provocateur to leader. If you truly want to be president you do the latter, but if you don't you do the former and act out all the more to self-eliminate (think Ross Perot 1992).
Equating the youthful temper of a guy who's saved thousands of kids lives on the operating table to the pathological compulsion of a child molester is really something. And the weirdest part, as I noted on Wednesday, is that Trump had been surprisingly subdued lately in attacking his competition. He didn't go after anyone at the debate; he didn't go after anyone after the debate. On Wednesday morning, he told Scarborough on MSNBC that the other candidates have all been cordial with him and that he feels like he's made some friends(!) from this process. He went so far as to say when asked that he'd trust Carson to manage one of his companies. Carson's campaign manager grumbled later that they were all prepared with a sharp comeback if Trump came after Carson at the debate and they didn't get to use it. Suddenly, 48 hours later, Trump's at the mic in Iowa reenacting how a knife might conceivably deflect off a belt buckle and mocking the idea in Iowa! that Carson might have had a youthful religious awakening that helped him overcome his impulses towards sin. (Read David Brody, CBN's political correspondent, for an evangelical reply to that. [W]hen Trump says there's no cure, he's wrong. Jesus cures. What the hell happened? The unnerving thing about this week isn't that Trump got unusually nasty with an opponent, even one as well-liked as Carson, it's that he's suddenly wildly erratic in his approach to the competition. I thought the new, subdued Trump was his way of trying to show a more presidential comportment now that we're less than three months from voting and he's still in the lead. He blew that theory up last night in Iowa. I don't know what he's doing now. Does he?
Which is not to say he'll lose votes over this. If you've stuck with him this far, you're probably in for good. What it might mean, though, is that the 20-25 percent he's pulling right now in Iowa is as far as he'll go. And unless Cruz surges and starts pulling votes from Carson, that's probably not enough to win.
Update: Trump celebrates Friday the 13th the Trump way.
Trump who donated to hitlery is attacking Carson’s inspirational redemption history...
Keep it up Trump and pictures of Trump smiling with hitlery will be aired in ads.
Trump jumped the shark. Stupid move.
Trump also admitted that he voted twice for William Jefferson Clinton and thinks Clinton is the best president of all times.
Yep
Unlike that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Dr Ben Carson is a genuine African American
Very well said
He won’t go after her and it would not surprise me if he would ask her to be his running mate.
Trump hasn’t gone after hitlery much. I have a feeling he’ll purposely implode if he wins the primaries and hitlery becomes president.
I realize that many here are strong Trump supporters, but this kind of desperate immaturity is hardly a character trait that will assist Trump in his quest for the Presidency. Let’s put it this way, Trump is in no position to called anyone ELSE “pathological” when he carries on like this.
Yeah, he's gonna use the same team of super-investigators he used to blow the lid off Obama's birth certificate, right??
I can live with Trump as president a lot easier than some here can live without him. I won’t vote for him but it will not be the end of the world for me if he wins.
Ttump is saying what needs to be said, nobody has the guts to say it and the stupids ones are all pissed off being told the truth. Everything preached to be taboo is being broken up by Trump, its like burn scabs, they have to come off and it will hurt.
Trump should never apologize for telling the truth, not if its Obamas birth certificate ir Carsons abilities. He tells the truth, problem is Anerica has been hypnotized by lies too long, so its like taking off bandaids, its gonna take a lot of hairs off too.
Trump assumes the candidates for the general election is going to be Him and Hillary. I don’t think he wants to give her, her machine or the LSM any kind of a heads up on how he is going to campaign against. An ambush is headed her way.
Carson clearly displayed pathological behavior as a younger man. Read the definition.
Carson is clearly pathological and more like a liar as he refuses to admit or accept his SDA religion is a major problem with his being CINC .
His first task is to gain the republican nomination. After that, it is to defeat the democrat nominee. One step at a time.
I like 2.5 and .5 of the top 4 right now. We are lucky to have better candidates, and with them leading the pack, than we did in 2012, and with the anointed RINO swirling the drain already this time.
Yes, but is he a full breed?
Carson disapproves of political correctness, so he can hardly criticize Trump for speaking his mind.
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