Ben Who?
To those of you who thought that Dr. Ben Carson was pretty much left out of the Republican debate, there’s good news – it appears that at GOP debates, silence is golden.
One America News Network, “OAN”, a credible source for 24/7 national and international news, released this evening its Post GOP Debate Poll results conducted by Gravis Marketing. Two primary questions asked to Republican polled participants were “Who do you think won the debate?” and “Who do you think lost the debate?” GOP Presidential Candidates Ben Carson and Marco Rubio scored well in both categories.
Seriously, Republicans are saying that Ben Carson won. See? They are not racists. Especially when it comes to someone who has a popsicle’s chance in hell of ever having any power.
I only heard him speak twice and both times he seemed confused. I guess that’s not fair. I certain he was confused about why they even noticed he was on the stage.
Well, Michelle Bachmann did ‘win’ at least one of those GOP debacles last time…and look where she is now…talking to Mathews on MSNBC on debate night…aaarrghh.
1Makes sense – the more people hear about the real Republican agenda, the less they like it. Besides, perhaps Ben Carson was merely channelling his inner Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge.
2Actually, on all the clips I’ve seen they all sounded confused. I think in their dreams they see themselves as just stepping over all the requirements and simply ascending to the White House.
3I hate to bring him up again. He’s gotten far too much ink already. But The Donald came in second on BOTH counts. Yeah, that fits.
4@maggie, well considering quite a few of them believe God personally endorsed them to be president, they probably do think they’ll simply ascend.
5The current crop of Repug wannabe’s make President Obama look absolutely regal.
6The winner was either Hillary or Bernie, just not sure yet
7Does Ben think that Pres. Obama’s black voters will suddenly move to him? Why does he think the racists republicans will vote for him in the south?
I think he needs to address the Planned Parenthood debate and tell us where he got the hearts the pediatric surgeon practiced on? Whose brain did he separate before performing that operation? Oh, and skin grafs? Whose skin are they using?
8Paul Krugman– “This was, according to many commentators, going to be the election cycle Republicans got to show off their “deep bench.” The race for the nomination would include experienced governors like Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, fresh thinkers like Rand Paul, and attractive new players like Marco Rubio.
Instead, however, Donald Trump leads the field by a wide margin. What happened? The answer, according to many of those who didn’t see it coming, is gullibility: People can’t tell the difference between someone who sounds as if he knows what he’s talking about and someone who is actually serious about the issues. And for sure there’s a lot of gullibility out there. But if you ask me, the pundits have been at least as gullible as the public, and still are.
For while it’s true that Mr. Trump is, fundamentally, an absurd figure, so are his rivals.”
9I know a few reasonable intelligent people who really like Ben Carson. They like his personal story, that he’s a doctor. They even liked what he said in the debate apparently, even though there wasn’t much there other than, well, freedom, admitting to have done pediatric surgery, and endorsing torture. Apparently those who liked that latter answer don’t take into account that torture violates the Geneva Conventions, the use of which in the W admin. got the US into deeper trouble, and that it doesn’t work to get correct information. Maybe they also like that Carson is black and that exempts them from charges of racism in not liking Pres. Obama. As one person said to me in 2008 – I wouldn’t vote for Obama, but I would vote for Colin Powell. O-kay…
10I found this helpful: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/08/07/ben-carson-needs-to-face-it-he-just-doesnt-have-the-chops-to-be-president-videos/
11Who won the debate?
Democrats!
12If Ben Carson won the debate, what was his prize?
13LynnN, the “prize” was the ultimate booby prize, or punishment depending of one’s point of view. Two hours in a room with Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, Chris Wallace and 16 other blowhards would qualify as torture in my book.
Miss Juanita Jean describes Dr. Carson as confused. Having listened to him on a prior occasion, I must agree with her. There’s something about his voice that falls short of charismatic, but close to hypnotic. Ergo “confused” as noted by Miss JJ, or perhaps confusing to the rubes lulled to sleep by his tone and failing to wake up to the harsh reality of his words.
In reality, he’s just another “screw you, got mine” Republicon from the same swamp as Water Boy, Wanker, and Kasich; all too ready to ‘pull the ladder up’ behind themselves. The rest of the current crop of ‘cons fall into either the “Golden Parachute” (T-Rump and Farina) or Silver Cloven Hoof categories. But all are versions of the “screw you, got mine” banner.
14One America News Network (OAN) = Fox News light.
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