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Ben Carson: I’m Open to Being Donald Trump’s Vice President
mediaite.com ^ | February 10

Posted on 02/10/2016 4:42:52 AM PST by Helicondelta

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on the day of the New Hampshire primary that he was open to serving as vice president under another candidate, specifically saying that he would be willing to sit down and discuss it with Donald Trump.

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To: Guenevere

Carson would be the straight man on the Trump/Carson comedy act. Just plain stupid.


21 posted on 02/10/2016 5:19:18 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: CaptainK

And that’s a fair price of admission, I guess... Trump has to buy his competitors and their bases to win.


22 posted on 02/10/2016 5:22:47 AM PST by txhurl (I'm NO LONGER with the Nasty Canadian '16 (well, unless he wins ;))(and he did))
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To: Helicondelta

He would be a fine Surgeon General.


23 posted on 02/10/2016 5:27:06 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Remember...after the primaries, we better still be on the same team!)
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To: Helicondelta

Three months ago that may have been a good idea. Now, not so much. Carson just isn’t a Presidential kind of leader.

HHS, probably. Surgeon General, yes. But not VP.


24 posted on 02/10/2016 5:27:29 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Helicondelta

Ben Carson as Trumps V.P.?

Just show how detached from reality some Trumpsters are...

If Carson is being picked to garner support from black americans, I can think of several blacks who are more suited for the job...

Allen West for one...


25 posted on 02/10/2016 5:27:44 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Helicondelta

Carson would not make a good VP for anybody.

The VP job is an overwhelmingly political job. Carson is not (yet) a politician, he is a technocrat, almost an opposite of a politician.

Trump, also not a politician, needs a very political VP. Cruz would be perfect, IMO. He is a brilliant lawyer & obviously a successful politician, having been a Senator & has argued before the Supreme Court.

Carson would be a good Surgeon General. He needs to stick to medicine.


26 posted on 02/10/2016 5:29:00 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
. I’m worried that Cruz is so slimy he’d do an LBJ on Trump.

Come on. That's uncalled for. After the primaries are over Trump and Cruz will be just fine with one another. The animosity is between their supporters. We should just stop.

Cruz has been a great Senator and he has my complete respect. Politics is politics.

27 posted on 02/10/2016 5:29:32 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Mr Apple

I think he will do something unpredictable. His VP may not be a politician at all, maybe a business leader...who knows.


28 posted on 02/10/2016 5:30:09 AM PST by bigtoona (Lose on amnesty, socialism cemented in place forever Trump is the only hope.)
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Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3394983/posts


29 posted on 02/10/2016 5:31:04 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
I feel more comfortable with Carson as VP than Cruz. I’m worried that Cruz is so slimy he’d do an LBJ on Trump.

Having said he didn't believe Cruz was eligible then how could Trump choose him? And if he did why would Trump want it?

As for Carson, no VP. No Surgeon General. No cabinet post. Just go home.

30 posted on 02/10/2016 5:31:17 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Mr Apple
I won't be surprised when Trump does pick Carson as his VP. Will be the perfect team going into the general.

Why?

31 posted on 02/10/2016 5:31:56 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Popman
Just show how detached from reality some Trumpsters are...

ROTFLMFAO! The sours grapes are overflowing here this morning! LOL!

32 posted on 02/10/2016 5:32:18 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Helicondelta
Carson will probably stay in the race just to remind voters in every debate that Cruz stole his votes in Iowa.

That and to say "I thought you were never going to call on me" every time he's asked a question.

33 posted on 02/10/2016 5:33:14 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Helicondelta

I was ready to keep loving Carson but he just got too weird and soft. That entrance debacle the other night, why the hell did he keep standing there? I think people would walk all over him. Maybe I’m wrong.


34 posted on 02/10/2016 5:36:37 AM PST by toddausauras (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

DT flawlessly executing AotD tactics... kneecap your competitors then buy them out at 50¢ on the dollar.

Shame it can’t be Trump/Cruz: our external and INTERNAL enemies would go running to the hills.


35 posted on 02/10/2016 5:37:15 AM PST by txhurl (I'm NO LONGER with the Nasty Canadian '16 (well, unless he wins ;))(and he did))
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To: Helicondelta

There could be worse choices.


36 posted on 02/10/2016 5:37:22 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
It's unnecessary posts like this that's turning otherwise good, decent people from this site. Say what you will, many people support Ted Cruz - imperfect as he may be - and your ugly slime of him is uncalled for, unjustified - as it would be for any other candidate. Yet you probably support the "foul-mouthed, pompous, arrogant, egotistical, non-conservative" candidate, Donald Trump.

Folks on this site would all do well to promote, support each of his/her candidate and STOP denigrating others and the candidate for whom they support. It's really beyond the pale now with all the attacks on fellow Freepers and the candidate of their choice, regardless of whom. I've been here since 2000, and have never experienced the degrading level to which we seem to be headed. It's seriously time to knock it off!

37 posted on 02/10/2016 5:37:56 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: Helicondelta

The Vice-Presidency is largely a ceremonious post. Ben Carson would be a very good person to have in that post because his image would tend to soften the hard image of Donald Trump and because evangelicals would find Trump much more palatable with Ben Carson at his side.

But current politics likely preclude Carson as choice for VP. Trump may need a VP pick that will garner enough delegates to overcome any attempt at a brokered convention.


38 posted on 02/10/2016 5:41:50 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: nfldgirl

It’s also an insult to our neighbors in Canada, calling a native born Canadian all these names. It needs to stop.


39 posted on 02/10/2016 5:46:02 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
(I repeat myself) About a week ago, it dawned on me whom Ted and Heidi remind me of. That would be Bill and hillary when they were first showing up on the national stage.

VP? If Trump isn't the outright nominee, I'd think the convention will be brokered. Trump is the expert dealmaker. I'd think he'll choose a VP smart, for delegates, balance, and vote-getting. I don't see it being Cruz....that dirty Cruz campaign is everything Trump wants to change in politics.

40 posted on 02/10/2016 5:49:15 AM PST by grania
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