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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:02 PM Sep 2014

Ben Carson: If Senate Doesn’t Go GOP, There May Not ‘Even Be An Election In 2016'

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http://www.alan.com/2014/08/29/ben-carson-if-senate-doesnt-go-gop-there-may-not-even-be-an-election-in-2016/

Neurosurgeon and Republican icon Ben Carson, famous for telling President Obama, to his face, at a prayer breakfast, how bad Obamacare is, says if Republicans don’t win the Senate this year, it could be curtains for America.

If Republicans don’t win back the Senate in November, he says, he can’t be sure “there will even be an election in 2016.” Later, his wife, Candy, tells a supporter that they are holding on to their son’s Australian passport just in case the election doesn’t go their way.

Carson believes he is on a mission from God to save America.

“Sometimes I realize there are forces greater than me,” he says. “I am an instrument that’s being used to help restore this country.”


Derp.
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Ben Carson: If Senate Doesn’t Go GOP, There May Not ‘Even Be An Election In 2016' (Original Post) KamaAina Sep 2014 OP
Carson should have stuck to pediatric surgery, he was good at that. Warpy Sep 2014 #1
technically he might be very good, but as a human being he is as low as they come still_one Sep 2014 #5
I think he has been operating on himself underpants Sep 2014 #10
There's always a few nuts and screws left over. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2014 #26
what an ignorant piece of garbage. I have no doubt the ass hole is getting paid quite well to spew still_one Sep 2014 #2
Ben is not an instrument of God, he is a tool of the GOP, and a victim of his own extreme religion. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #3
*headdesk* sakabatou Sep 2014 #4
Oh, he's an instrument all right. Laelth Sep 2014 #6
DUzy! KamaAina Sep 2014 #11
Touche'!!! DUzy for sure. 3catwoman3 Sep 2014 #23
DUzy - 100%! BlueCaliDem Sep 2014 #27
So they will leave the US to go to a nation with socialized medicine? Algernon Moncrieff Sep 2014 #7
Translation of what the tool really means to say: Anansi1171 Sep 2014 #8
Australian passport???? Has he ever lived in Australia with his black skin??? nt kelliekat44 Sep 2014 #9
There will be for those of us outside the FEMA camps Ben underpants Sep 2014 #12
Hey Ben, beat the rush and go now! n2doc Sep 2014 #13
hey ben you fucking need to learn about the separation of church and state, asshole spanone Sep 2014 #14
I read his weekly column Jimbo S Sep 2014 #15
Kind of like the articles in The Watchtower KamaAina Sep 2014 #18
Is it God speaking to them? packman Sep 2014 #16
Ben, wish I could tell you to your face that you are an insipid, blithering fuck-wad indepat Sep 2014 #17
Fuck Ben Carson with a rusty spoon. DinahMoeHum Sep 2014 #19
Where have we heard that before, about taking his passport and leaving if woodsprite Sep 2014 #20
Ben Carson is a Blues Brother. madashelltoo Sep 2014 #21
Well, he is on a mission from God. KamaAina Sep 2014 #25
Whoever told him that lis life was book worthy loyalsister Sep 2014 #22
Talk about God complexes. Nt justiceischeap Sep 2014 #24
Doctors are horrible at politics and other things Gothmog Sep 2014 #28
Remember Bill Frist? KamaAina Sep 2014 #29
He is a great example Gothmog Sep 2014 #31
What true American doesn't utters 'holding on to their son’s Australian passport just in case' Johonny Sep 2014 #30
I encourage all Republicans to come here to Australia and enjoy our... mattclearing Sep 2014 #32
This "instrument" is a narcissistic monstrosity. If he gets elected President, I'll have to move. nt pnwmom Sep 2014 #33
God begs to differ... JHB Sep 2014 #34
What a fool! dougg Sep 2014 #35

Warpy

(111,163 posts)
1. Carson should have stuck to pediatric surgery, he was good at that.
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:06 PM
Sep 2014

Once he steps outside his area of expertise, he's an idiot.

underpants

(182,626 posts)
10. I think he has been operating on himself
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:16 PM
Sep 2014

Hard to get all those brain parts back in the right place using a mirror system.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Ben is not an instrument of God, he is a tool of the GOP, and a victim of his own extreme religion.
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:06 PM
Sep 2014

He is Herman Caine, redux.


Anyone else notice how many Republicans God has selected to do his will. It is a crowed room full of dull instruments.

Is it the same God that ISIS says they are doing the will of or a different one?

As an aside, saying stupid things is the only thing that gets one noticed anymore, they have to appear this stupid.

3catwoman3

(23,949 posts)
23. Touche'!!! DUzy for sure.
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 03:08 PM
Sep 2014

Dr. Carson is no longer the sharpest scalpel on the OR tray. He is as much of an embarrassment as Paul Broun from Georgia.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,781 posts)
7. So they will leave the US to go to a nation with socialized medicine?
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:12 PM
Sep 2014

This is what I'm hearing? They will leave the US to go to a nation with single-payer?

Anansi1171

(793 posts)
8. Translation of what the tool really means to say:
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:12 PM
Sep 2014

If we cannot impeach and convict Obama in the last two years of his term, we will attempt a coup ( the attempted Benghazi election heist having been foiled and Patreaus fired) or secession/ nullification writ large.

Given they may not be able to win a national election on the merits ever again - a coup is the only way they have.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
13. Hey Ben, beat the rush and go now!
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:20 PM
Sep 2014

You might look to see how the careers of the other nut jobs who came before you have gone. Maybe Sarah can given you a slot on her channel.

Jimbo S

(2,958 posts)
15. I read his weekly column
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:26 PM
Sep 2014

The pattern is usually the same. The first half he will seem reasonable and call for bi-partisanship, but by the end he turns moonbat crazy.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
18. Kind of like the articles in The Watchtower
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:49 PM
Sep 2014

the Jehovah's Witnesses rag. The moonbat crazy part kicks in about two-thirds of the way through.

Someone used to leave them all around the Yale Medical Center where I worked. So I glanced at them before depositing them in the nearest waste receptacle as part of my urban beautification program.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
16. Is it God speaking to them?
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:31 PM
Sep 2014

Or the other guy? This quote scares me, " I am an instrument that’s being used to help restore this country.” He fits the symptoms of a megalomaniac with his delusional feelings of omnipotence and grandeur. Some people are telling him his shit smells like roses. Guy might be an excellent surgeon, but he needs to come to the realization he's being used.

woodsprite

(11,905 posts)
20. Where have we heard that before, about taking his passport and leaving if
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:59 PM
Sep 2014

things didn't go the GOP way. Oh, it was Rush! Maybe Ben's family can save a seat for Limbaugh and a few others on the one-way plane out of the US.

madashelltoo

(1,694 posts)
21. Ben Carson is a Blues Brother.
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 02:31 PM
Sep 2014

See, all we had to do was listen. The other two will be here for him any minute now.

Johonny

(20,818 posts)
30. What true American doesn't utters 'holding on to their son’s Australian passport just in case'
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 04:38 PM
Sep 2014

He loves America so much that he might leave at anytime because "fuck it" 'Merica might not be 1% enough.

The Republican elite are a funny bunch. When they aren't trying to deport people for not being American enough they are threatening to leave America because it isn't American enough. He dick you know what isn't American enough... Australian. It is like a whole other country over there

mattclearing

(10,091 posts)
32. I encourage all Republicans to come here to Australia and enjoy our...
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 05:26 PM
Sep 2014

...$17 minimum wage and single-payer healthcare.

Oh wait, who am I kidding, no, they can stay the hell over there and take responsibility for what they've done to America.

pnwmom

(108,955 posts)
33. This "instrument" is a narcissistic monstrosity. If he gets elected President, I'll have to move. nt
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 05:26 PM
Sep 2014
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