Posted on 02/04/2016 7:02:21 PM PST by springwater13
The candidate and his flailing campaign look consumed with one thing: Making Ted Cruz pay for 'dirty tricks' in Iowa.
Five days from the New Hampshire primary, Ben Carson has yet to set foot in this state since his fourth-place finish in Iowa. His detour to Florida for a fresh set of clothes has become a running joke online. The candidate is, by all indications, consumed by what he calls the "dirty tricks" of Ted Cruz’s campaign.
"Dr. Carson feels absolutely robbed, violated," said Armstrong Williams, a Carson confidant, in a phone interview. "He realizes, the Democrats are not his enemies trying to malign him. It's people who smile in his face, shake his hand, go out to dinner with him - and yet, they’re trying to destroy him behind his back."
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LOL!
You guys really are desperate, aren't you?
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Good for Carson take him down. I hope that all those Cruz fans get the total picture now. I told them they would change their minds after watching Cruz for a minute, he is a creep.
Dr Ben Carson needs to realize it is a GAME of political moves, alignment with people for agendas and hidden plans and promises that they don’t tell the whole world about. It has always been tricky, dirty, and people don’t LIE, they just don’t tell all of the truth. Time to move on, IOWA..to New Hampshire, another match. Let’s see who comes out on top. Go Cruz.
I think Trump has been way meaner to Carson than Cruz.
Carson is playing the “victim card.”
He’s not even going to be in New Hampshire until Saturday. He can’t be bothered with campaigning but he wants the media attention and the fund raising.
No because the voters were already in caucus. Did anyone change their votes because of Ted's lies, absolutely. Mrs. Carson went into a caucus and was told her husband had dropped out. She corrected that and Dr. Carson won that caucus.
Those votes would have gone to Ted or Rubio if she hadn't showed up.
Then, when people began to tell him that he should run for the presidency I thought, man you really need to think this thing through. Do you have any idea how your reputation will be savaged?
Then in walks Trump and compares this very fine surgeon to a pedophile.
Some one once said after they had been unfairly smeared - How do I get my reputation back?
And still not campaigning . . .
It was Ben’s strange behavior for “clothes” and the actions of his staff that caused all of this. He was the source of all this. Without those stupid actions none of this would have happened.
That’s a fact.
When Trump said that Carson was like a Child Molester, do you think that was “despicable”?
Would anybody admit it?
Trump once accused Carson of being mentally unbalanced.
I was quite annoyed with Trump about that, but I’m beginning to believe he was right.
Any thinking person knows that the infinitesimal damage that might have been done by the CNN story was not a real factor in Iowa.
Carson keeps saying he’s moving past it, but he can’t.
It’s the only publicity he’s had for weeks.
Not surprising. Seventh Day Adventists are second only to Scientologists when it comes to seeking retribution.
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Neither of which can hold a candle to a Canadian.
You are worse than Carson.
He didn’t say that. He said Carson described himself as having a pathology. He then said pathology is something you can’t change, that child molesters suffer with a pathology, they can’t change.
Not his greatest analogy but not despicable. Stealing votes, destroying another candidate’s chance of placing in top three, that’s despicable.
Trump didn’t harm Carson with those words, Cruz did great harm stealing votes.
Since he wasn't likely to be elected, I was perfectly happy with my ignorance, thanks. I'm deeply disappointed with Carson right now. And as a Christian, I'm deeply embarrassed by his passive-aggressive Bible quoting. Argh!
Politics. It ain’t brain surgery...
Vote changed for Cruz? They are still looking, but may have to pay someone.
Where are the voters who are crying "OMG I was snookered. I would have voted for Trump if Cruz's people didn't say that Carson was going home to Florida to change his clothes and get some fresh underwear?"
What a bunch of Crap.
This forum has gone downhill in a hurry. And it appears to have happened about the same time Trump decided to attack every Republican in America.
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