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Carson is still polling around 10% in South Carolina. He could play spoiler to Cruz if he drops out and endorses Trump or Rubio. He has a lot of core supporters. My guess is he would endorse Rubio and try to take out Trump and Cruz at the same time in South Carolina. He has no love for either.
1 posted on 02/04/2016 7:02:21 PM PST by springwater13
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Just when the primary is totally FUBAR, Carson might make it MEGA-FUBAR.


2 posted on 02/04/2016 7:04:31 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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It’s good we found out Ben was psycho now rather than later.


3 posted on 02/04/2016 7:05:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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Carson has a legacy to think about, his books, his movie, his surgeries and his poll numbers. He wanted to have that vote total to be as high as possible to give credence that many of his ideas were good in the political world.


4 posted on 02/04/2016 7:05:15 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (Savage BLASTS Megyn Kelly, Fox News Over Treatment Of Trump)
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Not surprising. Seventh Day Adventists are second only to Scientologists when it comes to seeking retribution.


6 posted on 02/04/2016 7:08:10 PM PST by JPX2011
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Anyone here honestly think even one vote changed because of the tweet?

Carson and Trump are playing sore loserman.

How Trump lost any votes because of this “dirty trick” requires a huge leap in logic.

The Cruz campaign merely noted a hot news item on CNN. You would think Carson would be pissed at CNN, however the CNN story was apparently accurate as was the tweet from the Cruz Campaign.

Trump and Carson and all their sycophants are grasping at straws. And Sarah Palin has truly truly jumped the shark.


7 posted on 02/04/2016 7:08:33 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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8 posted on 02/04/2016 7:08:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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If you are right, I hope he does drop out and do it soon. And you think Ben would endorse Marco the hispanic liar? Gross (the endorsement, not you) and I really wish he’d just let Iowa go because all he’s doing now is playing into the hands of the GOPe and the MSM.


9 posted on 02/04/2016 7:09:00 PM PST by Baladas
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Carson & Armstrong Williams are “loco”.


10 posted on 02/04/2016 7:09:15 PM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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So what will it be, Ben?

BNM (Black Neurosurgeons Matter), or

BCM (Black Candidates Matter) ?

12 posted on 02/04/2016 7:10:50 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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If he endorses Rubio prior to the convention he will lose his anti establishment credibility.

Rubio’s enter claim to being non GOPe is that he didn’t attend their Washington dinner parties. Of course, that generally requires one to be IN Washington, so I will let you draw your own conclusions.


15 posted on 02/04/2016 7:13:36 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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Politics ain’t beanbag.


17 posted on 02/04/2016 7:15:09 PM PST by ziravan (Buck the Establishment.)
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I think he would support Trump. He is too smart to go for Rubio who represents the Rstablishment which he hates. It is why he ran in the first place.


18 posted on 02/04/2016 7:15:13 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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Gee Ben, maybe you shouldn’t have left the campaign on the eve of the vote... And even worse have your people report that to CNN and others... Perhaps just maybe you should go look into the mirror as to the cause of all this...

The only person that benefits from your tantrum is the guy who compared you to a child molester and called you a fake Christian...

Brilliant.

Which comes first Ben, your pride or your country?


19 posted on 02/04/2016 7:15:20 PM PST by DB
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Carson is another nut job. Geez, imagine a Trump-Carson ticket. That’s the all booby hatch ticket.


20 posted on 02/04/2016 7:15:54 PM PST by Angels27
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Making Ted Cruz pay for ‘dirty tricks’ in Iowa.

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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.

22 posted on 02/04/2016 7:16:04 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (1 John 2:22...the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist...)
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I think Trump has been way meaner to Carson than Cruz.


24 posted on 02/04/2016 7:16:49 PM PST by Paladin2 (w)
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When Carson was doing the talking circuit I thought it was wonderful that this man was willing to speak common sense where there usually is none.

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?

27 posted on 02/04/2016 7:17:59 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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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.


33 posted on 02/04/2016 7:22:21 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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Politics. It ain’t brain surgery...


38 posted on 02/04/2016 7:26:21 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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As is often mentioned, politics is a rough game. If Dr. Carson thinks he’s been badly treated (to a certain extent I can agree with that), he should consider what the Dems would do to him if he looked like a real threat to win the Republican nomination.

Insofar as evaluating Dr. Carson as a potential President, the thing that worries me is that it appears to me that he sort of “ran out of gas” and needed a break. Most of us would. But a President cannot afford that, at least not in this manner, and at this level of “drain”.


45 posted on 02/04/2016 7:34:47 PM PST by Paul R.
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