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| 'The Chance of Ben Carson Jumping Onboard with Trump Is Very Real' |
| 2016-03-05 |
| [PJ Media] Sources close to the good doctor have told Independent Journal Review's Benny Johnson that Donald Trump is most likely to receive Carson's endorsement. "Trump was contacting Dr. Carson regularly during the campaign and remains in contact," a former Carson staffer told Independent Journal Review on condition of anonymity. "I would not be surprised if the first call Ben got today was from Trump." The staffer added, "The chance of Ben jumping onboard with Trump is very real." Another former Carson staffer said, "Carson would be the crown jewel of an endorsement for Trump." The retired neurosurgeon would bring a degree of moral support to the real estate tycoon, who has taken hits from evangelical leaders for being indecent and untrustworthy, and Marco Rubio has repeatedly denounced him as a "con artist." Carson, by contrast, is well regarded as a moral man, primarily by evangelicals. Carson's former Iowa campaign chair Rob Taylor said Trump would "rarely say anything ill of Carson." If he were Trump, Taylor said "Carson would be my #1 pick for VP. He has the balance and reasonability that Trump needs." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 Or - dare I say - Slo Joe. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-03-05 11:40 |
| #14 Trump needs to pick a life insurance VP; like Bush's Cheney. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-03-05 11:04 |
| #13 #6 Nil desperandum, P2k, nil desperandum. I figure: if Russians could kick out the communists and Israel could kick out the socialists (few people realize just how strong a hold the Israeli Labor party had on Israel's economy & social institutions); there's hope for you. Of course, it'll probably won't happen at the ballot box---sorry. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-03-05 10:34 |
| #12 Carson seems more qualified to be surgeon general. Trump needs to select a VP that has good track record of success in politics and governing (not necessarily in Washington) since Hillary has no experience in management and Trump has no GIVERnment experience. |
| Posted by: airandee 2016-03-05 10:11 |
| #11 Ref #10, I now remember this interview. An unfortunate turn of phrase in reference to a potentially incurable mental condition, but I do not think Trump intended to label Carson as a child molester. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-03-05 09:20 |
| #10 Trump likens Carson to a child molester http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-child-molester/ |
| Posted by: Big Stalin8043 2016-03-05 09:11 |
| #9 Not a troll, probably the last gasp of someone that believes in fighting until they can fight no longer. Better that than cynical surrender, yes? |
| Posted by: Big Stalin8043 2016-03-05 09:10 |
| #8 It's pappy's Hemingway, besoeker. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-03-05 09:00 |
| #7 #5 I hate to remind Rob Taylor that Trump compared Ben Carson to a pathologically unstable person "a child molester, a sick puppy, a child molester" back in November of 2015. I thought I was watching the process fairly closely, but I don't remember any of this. Link please. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-03-05 08:56 |
| #6 How much do trolls get paid? The real issue is as Noone wrote, the protected (and connected) vs the unprotected. If it was a constitutional republic the other issue would be important. However, we blind ourselves intentionally because we 'believe'. No different than the socialists. No, there is no 'right' man to make it all work again. We're past the period of a nation of laws, those only apply to the 'little people' to keep the game going. It's really a choice of 'champion' as it was in Rome. The others all represent in one way or another the establishment which has no need for 'consent' other than you paying your taxes on threat of loss of liberty and giving over your sons and daughters to defend their power (cause they don't give up theirs). You get to choose Caesar, Pompey, or Crassus. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-05 07:44 |
| #5 I hate to remind Rob Taylor that Trump compared Ben Carson to a pathologically unstable person "a child molester, a sick puppy, a child molester" back in November of 2015. Rubio is showing how ill tempered and unsuitable Trump is by goading him. Its not Rubio that seems concerned with the size of things, its Trump who reacted like a 12 year old in public. Perhaps Trump should be more concerned with fascist statements about ordering our military to commit war crimes and they must obey becuase he is Der Furher, oops I mean The Leader... "I'm a leader. I’ve always been a leader. I’ve never had any problem leading people. If I say do it, they’re gonna do it. That’s what leadership is all about." He has no clue about military leadership, jsut scummy business practices and being a Boss not a leader. Take his lying to the rubes backing him on immigration, when he has advocated and abused H1B and H2B visas. Now he is "flexible" on immigration, and admits he told the NY Times that the immigration stuff was just an election ploy? Hey Trumpites, how it feel to have been played? The issue is not Rubio, its the duplicity of Trump that should be of concern. You cant get more silver spoon establishment than him (born rich, uses the government and crony capitalism, harvard etc), yet people delude themselves into seeing anti-establishment somehow. Rubio is finished anyway since he apparently cannot win his home state. So now its down to a split convention or else Ted Cruz. If not Cruz (Or in a brokered convention possdibly Kasich or Rubio), then its Hil-liar-y vs Tantrum Trump. With either of those two, big government, K-Street and the insiders win, while constitutionalism, small government and individual freedom lose. Wake up and wake those around you who are Trump followers before its too late. |
| Posted by: Thains Platypus3142 2016-03-05 05:23 |
| #4 Trump-Kanye 2016. |
| Posted by: Elmavish Panda1401 2016-03-05 04:59 |
| #3 Does anybody else think Rubio is a little too concerned with hand size? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-03-05 02:36 |
| #2 Ho-lee sh!t . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-03-05 02:02 |
| #1 Smoke, mirrors, intrigue, rumors and innuendo. This is fast becoming the most fascinating election I've ever seen! |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-03-05 00:55 |