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Republican Candidates for 2016

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by chrispbrown, May 17, 2013.

  1. A_3PO

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    Carson's candidacy will collapse immediately after Iowa, maybe sooner if he crumbles under the pressure.

    My bet is on sooner.
     
  2. percicles

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    In pop culture they define this as stanning. Like those tween Twilight girls who refused to believe Kstew cheated on RPatz even though there was clear photographic evidence.
     
  3. bnb

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    He's trying hard with the common sense beats self declared experts. But he's lacking in common sense.

    Ima's right though. He's this cycle's Gringrich/Bachman/Cain/Santorum candidate and will be voted off the island soon enough.
     
  4. DonnyMost

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    Oh clown car... You complete me.
     
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  5. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    Carson's got to be one of the dumbest neurosurgeons i've ever heard of.
     
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  6. Jugdish

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    Carson could say the moon's made of cheese and these guys would defend him.
     
  7. FranchiseBlade

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    I guess I find it a little more understandable from tweens though just barely.
     
  8. Commodore

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    Politico article claims Carson fabricated application, but Carson never said he applied
     
  9. DonnyMost

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    Compartmentalization is one hell of a psychological phenomenon.
     
  10. Cold Hard

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    This West Point thing will likely sink Carson. I expect his poll numbers to drop quite a bit very soon. Crazies and nutjobs aside, most people do not like being lied to.

    It was obvious from day 1 that Carson is in WAY over his head running for POTUS.

    He never had a chance to begin with, likewise for Trump. I don't think the US is truly ready to elect an "outsider". The next President will be an establishment candidate.
     
  11. mc mark

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    Carson wrote in 1996 book “Gifted Hands” that he turned down a full scholarship to West Point

    There are no "full scholarships" to west point. If accepted the government picks up the tab for everyone.
     
  12. Commodore

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    The Politico article says Carson fabricated that he applied to West Point. But Carson never said he applied to West Point. Politico is engaging in fabrication in it's own article alleging fabrication.

    If Westmoreland and other generals said they could get him accepted into West Point, and Carson mistook that for a scholarship (when as you say, there are no scholarships), who cares?

    I say this as someone who has Carson far down on my list of preferred nominees.
     
  13. Amiga

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    Wow, dude sure has a pattern of fabrications. Lack of ethics and morals for supposedly a high ethic and moral guy.
     
  14. mc mark

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    He's been washed in the blood so it's all good!

    Anyway, it doesn't matter. Carson is done.
     
  15. rimbaud

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    What if he never met Westmoreland?

    https://www.yahoo.com/politics/ben-carsons-campaign-admits-he-lied-about-west-181600104.html

    Not saying he didn't but uh...that is weird.
     
  16. sirbaihu

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    Dude, in rough-and-tumble Motor City they require brain surgeons to do surgery on their own brains.
     
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  17. ima_drummer2k

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    Fiorina down, Carson down...hopefully Trump is next and we can finally get down to the serious candidates.

    "Serious" being relative, of course.
     
  18. DonnyMost

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    I feel so bad for you, dude.

    Watching any moderate conservative post in the D&D is like watching a totally innocent, bright eyed kid walk in on their drug-addled hooker mom getting smashed upside the head with a bottle of Jim Beam by their alcoholic sub-human step-father in a fight over whose turn it is to clean the bats out of the broken down Impala on the front lawn.

    You deserve so much better than this.
     
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    giddy's been twisting himself into a pretzel to defend this joker. Maybe he'll take Fox more seriously as a source?

     
  20. Rashmon

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    I'm still rooting for a Trump/Carson ticket from the GOP. Doubling down.
     

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