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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: I_B_Perky on March 02, 2016, 04:38:01 PM

Title: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: I_B_Perky on March 02, 2016, 04:38:01 PM: Says he will skip debate. Hasn't formally suspended his campaign yet, said he sees no way forward.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3473541/Ben-Carson-quits-Republican-race-White-House-dismal-Super-Tuesday-results.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3473541/Ben-Carson-quits-Republican-race-White-House-dismal-Super-Tuesday-results.html)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ben-carson-to-tell-supporters-he-sees-no-path-forward-for-campaign/2016/03/02/d6bef352-d9b3-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html?tid=sm_tw
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: Big Dog on March 02, 2016, 05:36:09 PM: Ben Carson is a good and decent man.
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: Crazy Horse on March 02, 2016, 05:50:33 PM: Quote from: Big Dog on March 02, 2016, 05:36:09 PM
Ben Carson is a good and decent man.

That he is.
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: RobJohnson on March 02, 2016, 08:32:09 PM: Quote from: Big Dog on March 02, 2016, 05:36:09 PM
Ben Carson is a good and decent man.

I agree. The media and the debate moderators ignored him, which was disappointing.
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: RobJohnson on March 02, 2016, 08:35:01 PM: My primary care physician and Dr. Carson are very close friends. Dr.Carson visited our town a few months back to speak and the room quickly filled in a matter of minutes, and many had to be turned away. Rand Paul, who I would of liked to have seen, just to meet the guy, had less then 100 people show up.
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: thundley4 on March 02, 2016, 08:38:12 PM: Quote from: Big Dog on March 02, 2016, 05:36:09 PM
Ben Carson is a good and decent man.
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: ExGeeEye on March 03, 2016, 11:40:23 AM: You know why Cruz staffers believed the CNN news report of Dr Carson's planned return home meant he was dropping out of the race?

Because they believe him to be intelligent.

And an intelligent man in Dr Carson's position would have done exactly that exactly then (if not earlier).

Unfortunately for everyone, including himself and especially his very few voting supporters, he's slower on the uptake than people gave him credit for.

Good on him for finally facing facts.
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: Hawkgirl on March 03, 2016, 11:56:34 AM: Quote from: Big Dog on March 02, 2016, 05:36:09 PM
Ben Carson is a good and decent man.

+1...hopefully he will end up with a cabinet position.
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: IndiCon15 on March 03, 2016, 12:56:45 PM: I'm curious to see where he'll show up after this. He's a good man. I think I might have lost yet another liberal friend when I accused people of being racist when the media was going after him......
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: Ceridwen on March 03, 2016, 01:08:23 PM: He would make a great Surgeon General or Secretary of Health in the next administration.
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: Big Dog on March 03, 2016, 02:23:54 PM: Quote from: Ceridwen on March 03, 2016, 01:08:23 PM
He would make a great Surgeon General or Secretary of Health in the next administration.

Ben Carson is a great surgeon. He is not a great politician or bureaucrat (and that is a compliment) .

As FA Hayek wrote, "the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful" in government (The Road to Serfdom, ch. 10).
Title: Re: Looks like Ben Carson is out
Post by: dutch508 on March 03, 2016, 06:43:41 PM: Quote from: Hawkgirl on March 03, 2016, 11:56:34 AM
+1...hopefully he will end up with a cabinet position.

Me too. I wish the country was in shape that a man like Dr. Carson could have been President.

Maybe someday.