Ben Carson Gets Hoisted on His Own Petard, and it Isn’t Pretty (VIDEO)

REDSTATE ^ | February 3rd, 2016 at 04:42 PM | By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary)

[Nervous Tick]

I’m STILL not sure which graphic you’re referring to.

[DoughtyOne]

It’s the one with the colored codes on it dinging Trump for things he has developed good policies for.

Look at his posts on forum. If you can find a 12 hour gap in the last four months when he hasn’t posted it, I’ll be quite surprised.

[Nervous Tick]

>> It’s the one with the colored codes on it dinging Trump for things he has developed good policies for.

Oh, THAT one.

As I recall I found it pretty accurate, which is of course not what you wanted to hear. Let me find it and refresh my memory, and we can discuss specifics.

[BlueDragon]

Why do you think I'm doing this?

You didn't address that question to me. Would you want me to answer it, though?

It would have to be by freepmail. Too hot & harsh for open forum, I'm afraid...

Decide.

Do you like the below imagery?

My graphic really nailed you folks.

How would you like this other graphic (see above) to be rubbed in your face? Would that be "fair"? Would it serve to help the greater causes of conservatism?

Ah! Let me answer that question too, Ben.

It stands a better chance to help the cause in the long term, than the juvenile, smirking punk kind of retort which playing the graphic you posted in comment #4 is, following that up with the further unproductive rudeness from you that I quoted with a strikethrough.

You should add about 5 to 10 percent more 'Vote Cruz' entries into your so-called caucus threads, since I'm sure I'm not the only one who has avoided the thing BECAUSE OF WHO IS RUNNING IT.

[Theophilus]

Wait Doughty's a dude???

As God is my witness, I thought...

Sorry Doughty.

[Nervous Tick]

That chart links to a more detailed explanation on a website called “conservative review” when you click on the Cruz or Trump column. The chart posted here at FR is a faithful reproduction of the colored-dot summary at the CR website.

Many of the positions taken by CR are of course “debatable” by a Trump partisan, but they are also defensible by a Cruz partisan.

Therefore I see no foul — no blatant falsehood.

What ratings in particular do you think are beyond the pale?

[DoughtyOne]

That has been posted here.

[pilgrim]

Let’s hope it returns.

Haven’t seen too much of it lately.

[DoughtyOne]

If you think it’s accurate, you should have no problem with my graphic.

[Nervous Tick]

You didn’t point out a single specific. Just like you didn’t discuss the specifics when I rebutted your use of your graphic.

Suit yourself, FRiend. I think you’re harming your reputation, and I hate to see you do that, but it’s your choice.

[DoughtyOne]

In seven months I haven’t had one Cruz supporter admit to facts in front of their face, and you expect me to try it one more time?

I appreciate the off. I really do.

If you haven’t already seen something in that chart that doesn’t look quite right, what’s the point of me wasting more time on this..

I wish you well.

[BlueDragon]

If you think about it, thus is a thread related to Cruz, and thus fair game.

I already thought about it, and told you why that particular image doesn't fit this thread.

I've been doing this for a couple of hours to prove a point.

To prove a point? That you can be a sore loser smirker, taking your ire out on membership of the forum generally?

Anyone reading the threads has to see it, and then any Cruz supporter has to read "I think I nailed you guys" which effectively is insulting about half the forum here.

What good cause does sort of thing serve?

One of your own has been doing it for four months.

No complaint there...

One of my own?

I'm not responsible for the words and deeds of others, yet you just made it out like I was --- while deflecting attention away from deeds that are in your own, personal control.

What previously image is it that caused you so much grief? The one I re-posted to you?

Does that one carry an accurate quote from Trump? Yes, or no.

Meanwhile, not having taken notice of your own personal dislikes that seem to have put an ax in your hand to grind, I have recently (like today, and yesterday) addressed a couple of freepers recently who's statements I thought were too over-the-top critical of Trump supporters ---one of those being using the term "Trumptards", since it's not mental retardation (afaict) that led more than a few to be enthusiastic about the way Trump first began his quest for the GOP presidential nomination.

People are pissed off, to put it coarsely, though still mildly in comparison to just how p-o'ed people seem to be about politics.

Who could blame them?

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for your comments.

[ru4liberty]

Thank you for sending me on that investigative journey. I haven't seen many of Isara's posts, so it was a pleasant surprise to scroll down the page of his/her posts and see what graphics you were referencing. With the exception of a couple of those graphics, almost all of them led me to a place where I could get more info. I especially appreciated the charts and tables where things are sourced, allowing the reader to check out the info for themselves. The cap was amusing, and a link was provided for me to purchase one if I thought it was amusing enough to buy one. Then there was a graphic that led me to a YouTube video. So, even if Isara and I were not both Cruzbots (or whatever the nom de jour is for Cruz supporters), he/she could make a legitimate case that those graphics served a constructive purpose.

Yours, on the other hand, were nothing but spam. You spammed 10 or 12 threads with a link to your caucus thread. OK. I'll give you that. I know you're trying to pad your Trump numbers, so I can't really blame you for your desperate measures to achieve that goal. However, your enormous Cruzerman (?) graphic has been spammed all over FR. I stopped counting at 20, and that was just for Feb. 3!!!!!!!! I don't know what the final count for today was because just finding 20 of them on one day was so absurd, it was laughable. I truly see why Trump is your guy. Y'all must have been separated at birth!

Finally, as a couple of Trump supporters have made it a point to tell me, it's poor etiquette if you mention someone in a post and neglect to ping them. Since you didn't ping Isara, I did. I thought he/she should see what silliness you're spewing.

[Walt Griffith]

Like your link, good details. Did you watch the video, I had to use youtube to see it. Searched by voice using: Feb 3, 2016 Ben Carson.

[BlueDragon]

Thank you for your comments.

Please, don't whisper sweet nothings unless you mean it.

[DoughtyOne]

Your little diatribe was entertaining.

Cruz and Trump supporters are both welcome to participate in the FR Caucus, so how am I padding Trump support?

I have repeatedly asked everyone to participate I post to Cruz threads and Trump threads.

It is fun to watch you folks twist in the wind.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for your additional comments.

[BlueDragon]

Thank you for your additional comments.

Sounds like false-note, condescending brush-off, to me.

Feel free to correct me, if I'm wrong.

Get real, or get lost. I'm not here to be bullshitted.

[DoughtyOne]

Aww, one more very happy Cruz person.

I didn’t put you down. I just don’t want to waste my time with you.

People on your side had eight months to talk regionally with me.

So..., thanks for the additional comments.