Pic Of The Moment: Carson Campaign Goes To War With Itself

[EarlG]

Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say

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[yuiyoshida]

1. That photo

Ya gotta wonder what someone said or did, for him to make that face? "Sorry Mr. Carson, we ran out of peanutbutter and Jelly sandwiches".

[Punkingal]

6. It's the Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard look-a-like pic....

And we know the men in white coats came to take her away in the end.

[Kali]

7. I was going to ask...

where did someone find a photo of him looking awake?

[awoke_in_2003]

22. His eyes are actually open...

maybe it is better that he keeps them closed most of the time.

[Martin Eden]

29. That's when he first saw Jeebus

It was a barely discernable image on a burnt piece of toast, but it changed his life.

[SusanaMontana41]

36. That's damn funny!

[NewJeffCT]

2. What I like about Carson

is that if he does win the nomination and ends up losing in an historic landslide because he knows nothing outside of brain surgery, the Freepers/Teabaggers will blame it on Carson being black - so, they'll be fired up to nominate somebody just like him, only white, in 2020, and we get a repeat of 2016.

[red dog 1]

17. If he does win the nomination, and the Repukes tamper with the voting machines

in 9 or 10 key states,
(like Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Florida & other GOP controlled states)
we will have a President Carson to deal with.

Oregon has the right idea....all absentee ballots!

[Jester Messiah]

3. Like I said, Herman Cain mk 2. He was never gonna last. [nt]

[underpants]

4. Now they have to train Ben up on this too?

That's a lot for him to handle.

[NCjack]

5. It's not your fault Ben that you hired lousy advisors. Of course, if you were president, you

would hire better ones.

[niyad]

8. does this surprise any of us? this is a peson who cannot even name ONE of our allies--not even

after friday!

it isn't so much his utter cluelessness and stupidity which bother me as much as the fact that there are actually people who find him in the least bit credible as a candidate.

[Gin]

9. IMO

He never thought it would go this far....the purpose of his candidacy was to sell books...just like Newt.

[erronis]

12. Yup - I'd say Forrest Gump but that wouldn't be nice to Forrest.

Shit - while there's a bit of celebrity and adulation, might as well lap it up.

Strange critters, those repuglicans.

[Fritz Walter]

10. It's called a "Circular Firing Squad"

And ol' Ben is in the center of it.

[L. Coyote]

11. Plenty of time to start training for President, first get elected, then Google Syria.

Carson Announces Detailed Plan to Google Syria
By Andy Borowitz

DES MOINES (The Borowitz Report)—In a major foreign-policy announcement on Wednesday, the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson unveiled a detailed plan to Google Syria.

Speaking in Iowa, the retired neurosurgeon told an audience of supporters, “Any responsible policy on Syria must begin with a fact-finding mission, and such a mission must begin with Googling.”

He said that “Google holds the key” to many questions about Syria. “Where is it? Who lives there? How many square miles is it? These are all things that have to be pinned down,” he said.

.............

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[AlbertCat]

13. The GOP has turned the election of the President of the United States into...

.... Hee Haw.

(It still needs a laugh track because its not funny)

[lark]

14. So, now they are ageist on top of racist and misogynist?

Sounds about right for him/them. The crazy, it burns!!

[trueblue2007]

15. BOZO

[Bucky]

16. Clarridge "runs a 'private spying operation . . . from poolside at his home near San Diego'."

link ==> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/world/23clarridge.html

He's apparently obsessed with proving that Hamid Karzai is a heroin junkie. So, yeah, he's a pretty good match for Carson. Now they're calling him senile? Fine, that only makes him a better match.

[red dog 1]

18. It's not brain surgery,

it's basic intelligence...which Carson obviously lacks.

K&R

[getagrip_already]

19. isn't carson older than clarridge?

maybe the spox was referring to carson being senile.

[JackRiddler]

28. No.

Look up Clarridge, he has a long history.

[malthaussen]

20. I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

I am convinced that the people who respond to the polls are trolling all of us.

-- Mal

[d_legendary1]

25. Or maybe the pollsters are trolling us

by polling the same people.

[DefenseLawyer]

21. Who am I? Why am I here?

[MADem]

32. Admiral Stockdale....is that you??? nt

[thebighobgoblin]

23. Wonder what tipped off his foreign policy advisers -- his batshyt insane belief that the pyramids

were used to store grain?!

It's kinda tough to break down more cerebral stuff like Sunnis and Shiites if you can't get past that one.

[JackRiddler]

27. See post 26 below.

[thebighobgoblin]

24. I really do have to wonder -- is this the best the GOP field has to offer?!?!?!

Like, really?!?!

[JackRiddler]

26. Duane Clarridge (CIA) is a Bush mob consigliere.

So he took his Carson paycheck as a consultant, and has now demonstrated his enduring loyalty to the Family.

Notwithstanding that it's true!

And an implosion of Carson may benefit Trump but it ain't going to Jeb!'s benefit.

Schadenfreude all around.

[MADem]

33. I wouldn't bet on that--Jeb has been talking about CHRISTIANS a lot.

And that's Gentle Ben's core constituency.

TeeRUMP is not a believable Christian. He's got the Archie Bunker voters, not the "Geez, Edith, not dis religious crapola again!" voters.

“There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now,” he explained. “They’ll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS. And I think we should have — we should focus our efforts as it relates to the Christians that are being slaughtered.”

Tapper wondered how screeners would know which refugees were Christians.

“We do that all the time,” Bush insisted. “I think we need to be — obviously — very, very cautious. This also calls to mind the need to protect our borders, our southern border particularly.”

[SusanaMontana41]

37. Let's ramp up the fear factor!

What a vile, disgusting POS.

[spooky3]

30. Carson needs to hire Jefferson D'Arcy:

https://m.

[MADem]

31. Is jeb! hoping to score some of this kook's followers with all of his creepy Christian comments?

It looks like the air is leaving his balloon pretty quick.

His loony supporters seem like they're a closer fit with jeb! than TeeRUMP!!!!

[BlueStreak]

34. Worse than Hermain Cain

We expected Cain to be a clown and he actually seemed to relish that role. But in many respects this Carson guy is worse than the "Becky-becky-stan-stan" guy. In both cases, they seem to celebrate complete ignorance about the world.

Not that any of the others on that stage are any better. But Carson tries to pass himself as some hyper-intelligent brain surgeon.

It really is astonishing how little any of these GOP candidates knows (or even wants to know) about the world. I remember the Ford-Carter debate where Ford seemed to say that Poland wasn't within the USSR's sphere of influence. Hell, at least Jerry Ford knew where Poland was, but this was considered on of the great blunders in the entire country's history of Presidential discourse. These GOP clowns today don't even try.

Of course, the votes they are going for are the dumbed-down anti-intellectual crowd, Reagan and his followers have bred generations of Americans to be little more than obedient consumers. This is the end result of that systematic dumbing-down.

It would be one thing if the candidates were just "acting dumb" to appeal to that base. But other than possibly Bush and Christie (a stretch in both cases) these are just garden variety dumbasses. Today's GOP politician knows you don't get nay sprinkles on your cupcake by studying world history hard.

[Midnight Writer]

35. How dare he disparage senility? Does he have no respect for Ronald Reagan?

[SusanaMontana41]

38. THREAD WIN!

[rsacamano]

39. The best

I love watching this jackass implode