Again, what’s your source? Carson was interviewed on Fox this afternoon and said the reorganization was planned. But that was never part of the CNN story nor did I see any mention prior to today. So what’s your source that says he planned to do it prior to Iowa?
Yes, Carson has gone through a lot of money. But as reported earlier, he has one of the highest spend to donation ratio of all the candidates. And I hate to use Bill O’Reilly as a source, but on his Talking Points memo last night, even he said Carson had events scheduled in New Hampshire prior to this dust-up in Iowa and he (Carson) was only in Florida for a day.
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Well What the hell was Carson going to say? that he was planning to suspend the campaign?
His “reorganization” was gutting his campaign staff when he needs to be fully staffed to compete on Super Tuesday in 1)+ states.
He still hasn’t returned to NH and won’t be in NH until Saturday for the debate.
Taking off the week before a critical primary? Seriously? Gimme a break.
The opportunity for others to exploit his campaign’s problems are HIS FAULT. If this was planned in advanced (not going to NH to take a brief vacation. Why not announce it earlier rather than bolt the state and drop your campaign for a week within hours of the start of the Caucus.
People are working hard and are playing to win. If your campaign is that poorly run it speaks poorly of your ability to lead. HE left others and opening by being stupid and they ran with it.
When we get to the general election you are damn right a want a tough campaign that will take advantage of every opening and exploit every self inflicted wound.
Did you ever hear of Reagan;s campaign manager Lee Atwater? You should look him up he makes Cruz’s guys look like Choirboys.
You think the Chicoms Norks ISIS or Russkies will play nice?
I am especially disappointed by Carson’s reaction to HIS F’up.
Take a deep breath and slow down.
OK, I’ll give you all the points you raise. Now, where did CNN say that Carson was “suspending or dropping out? Again, if the Cruz campaign saw the original tweet that said Carson was going to Florida until Thursday...how come they didn’t see the tweet that said he wasn’t dropping out?
You can’t have it both ways. Forget Carson, he’s as good as gone. My beef is your boy says he isn’t the typical Washington politician, quotes scripture and wraps himself in his outsider status. Truth is, he’s just another politician who will do ANYTHING to get a vote.
I was optimistic when Cruz announced. I listened to his speech at Liberty University and thought here is someone I can support. Since that time though, I’ve come to realize he’s not exactly who he says he is.
You may be interested in another thread, just started, that says Cruz may be involved in push-polling in South Carolina.
I take no issue with your support of Cruz, But I do find it tough to take when his supporters resort to “blaming the victim” as a defense. You know...” he’s almost out of money...it’s unusual to take a break during a campaign...her clothes were too tight...she was asking for it...” If you want my vote, be a stand-up guy.
Lee Atwater...sure I know of him. Ronald Reagan too. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, 41 and 43 too. I worked on each of their local details when I was still an active LEO.
So I guess Ted should change his slogan from “TrusTed” to “TrusTed...just don’t look behind the curtain...”