smart move. seriously.
Can anyone blame ANYONE for thinking Carson was dropping out?
Carson was flying to Florida for a change of clothes?! RIIGHT.
I am undecided. I have sent money to Cruz AND to Carson. (and to a few others)
I really have no dog in this fight, but this sniping is really pathetic.
It’s one thing to think he’s going to drop out.
It’s another thing to act as if he is or already has and tell his voters to change their support as a result.
They both made a play on something they weren’t sure of, because they wanted to benefit. They exploited the new guy.
It wasn’t a good thing to do.
Yes. There was no reason to say that Carson was dropping out unless Carson released a statement that he was dropping out.
Really bad judgment and smells of a Nixon dirty trick.
It tells you who the MSM and the Rockefeller Republicans abhor the most. I sent Ben a few hundred myself but if he thinks this is a big deal he is in the wrong business. The Clinton gang would turn him into mincemeat.
that right there is a very strange move...who don't go prepared? He flew out to Florida to pick up some clean clothes?
Are there not cleaners in those towns anywhere, does he not think to maybe purchase some new ones. both those actions is a lot cheaper that flying out on the campaigns money. Does he not think to go prepared.....
There is more to this than meets the eye right now, but it will come forth sooner or later.
When his staffers heard they were saying that Carson had quit, why didn't they stop the voting at that moment and clarify Carsons actions. That would have given the people who may have changed their votes to make a correction back to Carson.
Meanwhile Rubio is sitting back watching all this licking his chops. I didn't do nuttin...hmmmm?
This is the CNN report in question:
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
Male: Ben Carson, what have we learned?
Female: That’s right, our - we should say, our Chris Moody is breaking this, this news, that Ben Carson is gonna go back to Florida to his home, regardless of how he does tonight here in Iowa. He’s gonna go there for several days, and then afterwards he’s not gonna go to South Carolina, he’s not gonna go to New Hampshire. He’s gonna come to Washington, DC, and he’s gonna do that because the National Prayer Breakfast is on Thursday. And people who have been following Ben Carson’s career know that that’s really where he got himself on the political map, attending that prayer breakfast and really giving it to B, President Barack Obama at the time. And he became kind of a hero among uh, conservatives as well as evangelicals especially. But
M: And it’s very unusual
F: VERY unusual
M: to be announcing that you’re going home to rest for a few days, not going on to the next site. Plus, he’s already announced that he’s gonna be coming out and speaking at 9:15 local
F: Mm-hm
M: 10:15 Eastern, no matter whether or not uh, we know the results, uh, because he wants to get home and get ahead of the storm.
F: Look. If you want to be President of the United States, you don’t go to Florida. I mean, that’s just bottom line. That’s the end of the story. If you want to signal to your supporters that you want it, that you’re hungry for it, that you want them to get out and campaign, you gotta be out there doing it too, and he’s not doing it. It’s very unusual.
M: Very unusual news, that CNN has just learned, CNN’s Chris Moody breaking the story. Wolf, back to you in Washington.
Wolf Blitzer: VERY significant news indeed, guys. Thanks very much.
END OF RECORDING
Look....The Cruz staffer....picked off Kings tweet about the story CNN put out that Carson was going to leave the race.....and it went from there. When Carsons people picked up on it they put out a denial of it.....which the Cruz people did not send out.....and thus Carsons complaint rested on that they didn’t.
As I see it Carsons been dabbling in victim hood from the get go for one reason or another....he’s been whining about race, rudeness, fairness etc. almost as much as Trump...Both these guys are operating in the big boys park now and both of them somehow expect they can operate like a surgeon and a business man in a field neither have operated in before. Both complain about political correctness yet neither of them are mindful of their own blunders.
Ok...so now they know the park they’re in they need to stand up and pay attention to what they’re doing.....not announce to the world they have to fly to Florida to change suites....not bellyache when they lose the first state election.......the two of them sound like sour grape losers and that’s all there is to it....and they both feed the news cycle exactly what they want to hear.
Cruz knows full well how nasty this thing gets....he’s had to take his own “unfair” punches and deal with them when and if he chooses to do so when in Washington as well as on the campaign trail. Short of the attack on his kids he’s not playing the victim card thus far and I sure hope he doesn’t.
The other two need to get some skin on .....or neither will last the clinton machine past the first round.
The only caveat I would add is that there appears to be an individual who “confirmed” that Carson was dropping out (using those words, or a very specific analogous set - not subject to interpretation). That individual should be checked out. How was it “confirmed”?
That individual should be in jeopardy, IMO.