Top Republican Presidential Candidate Says Anarchy May Force Cancellation Of 2016 Election
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Dr. Ben Carson, a popular Tea Party activist and Fox News contributor who says he will likely seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016, said on Sunday that he is seriously concerned that there will not be 2016 elections in the United States because the country could be in anarchy by that point. His reasons: the growing national debt, ISIS, and the U.S. Senate’s refusal to consider legislation passed by the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.
Host Chris Wallace noted that in light of his potential presidential campaign, Carson’s previous comments were now under a greater spotlight. He noted Carson’s August comment that if the Republicans don’t win a majority in the Senate this year, the 2016 elections might not even be held and asked the retired neurosurgeon if he stood by it:
WALLACE: You said recently that there might not even be elections in 2016 because of widespread anarchy. Do you really believe that?
CARSON: I hope that that’s not going to be the case. But certainly there’s the potential because you have to recognize that we have a rapidly increasing national debt, a very unstable financial foundation, and you have all these things going on like the ISIS crisis that could very rapidly change things that are going on in our nation. And unless we begin to deal with these things in a comprehensive way and in a logical way there is no telling what could happen in just a couple of years.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/09/28/3573103/ben-carson-anarchy-election/
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So how could that force the cancellation of the election in 2 years??
anti-American. There is nobody, and I mean nobody, that they don't hate with the fury of a thousand supernovas. And they lie, cheat, and steal, with impunity. They are the 1%. The Police State. And an extreme far right Theocracy meshed with 1930's German authoritarianism. And that's on their good days.
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford were.
Not Barry Goldwater.
As a strongly libertarian-leaning conservative, Goldwater is the ideological grandfather of today's tea baggers.
And 50 years ago is about the right amount of time for the GOP to have forgotten the lesson it should have learned: not to nominate an extremist bomb thrower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater
He was viewed by many traditional Republicans as being too far on the right wing of the political spectrum to appeal to the mainstream majority necessary to win a national election. . . .
Goldwater's provocative advocacy of aggressive tactics to prevent the spread of communism in Asia led to effective counterattacks from Lyndon B. Johnson and his supporters, who claimed that Goldwater's militancy would have dire consequences, possibly even nuclear war. In a May 1964 speech, Goldwater suggested that nuclear weapons should be treated more like conventional weapons and used in Vietnam, specifically that they should have been used at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to defoliate trees.[34] Regarding Vietnam, Goldwater charged that Johnson's policy was devoid of "goal, course, or purpose", leaving "only sudden death in the jungles and the slow strangulation of freedom".[35] Goldwater's rhetoric on nuclear war was viewed by many as quite uncompromising, a view buttressed by off-hand comments such as, "Let's lob one into the men's room at the Kremlin."[36] He also advocated that field commanders in Vietnam and Europe should be given the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons (which he called "small conventional nuclear weapons"
without presidential confirmation.[37]
