Before I go on about Ben let me post this about something another GOP d/bag has had to say…..
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who is part of Boehner’s close-knit circle, attempted to turn the tables on members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, denouncing them as “right-wing Marxists” who have empowered House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) by undermining Boehner.
“The right-wing Marxists have teamed up with Pelosi. They’re the ones who always team up with Pelosi. They are the Pelosi Republicans,” an infuriated Nunes said in an interview. “The Freedom Caucus is an arm of Pelosi.”
A Right-wing Marxist? Maybe this idiot should not be on a committee called the “intelligence” committee.
Onward march the Christian soldier, Ben……..
It appears that Carson has out “Donald” the “Donald”!
I have been told this by a couple of people that are on-board with the radical Rights bullshit positions.
It seems Carson is catching flak and some are upset with that attention….saying stuff like…”he is only saying what all Americans are thinking”…..first of all……I do not think all Americans are that bigoted…..only people that prefer slogans to issues and solutions.
Ben is striking back at all his detractors…….
Ben Carson today blamed “PC culture” for the political fallout over his statement against electing a Muslim president. Carson told reporters in Ohio that his view is that anyone wanting to be president must embrace the Constitution and American principles. He added that he would oppose a Christian for president who wanted to establish a theocracy. Asked how his campaign can recover from the controversy, the retired neurosurgeon replied: “The only way we fix that is fix the PC culture in our country,” referring to political correctness. “We fix America, and we get people who actually start listening … and stop trying to fit everything into a PC model,” he said.
Carson’s remarks came amid a backlash over his comments last weekend that Muslims shouldn’t serve in the presidency. In an interview with Fox News, Carson then retreated slightly, saying he would be open to a moderate Muslim who denounced radical Islam as a White House candidate. But he also said he stood by his original comments, saying the country cannot elect people “whose faith might interfere with carrying out the duties of the Constitution.” Today, Carson called the Muslim president question “a theoretical issue” that’s distracting from important national and international problems, from US income inequality to the Syrian refugee crisis.
The “political correct” argument are only for those that have no excuse for their words or actions……they do not want to face what they have said or done so they blame everyone else for their fuck up….So political correctness is the perfect excuse.
Finally, GOP faithful are a fickle bunch! They will jump around to whichever candidate has the most outrageous and bigoted statement….it appears that support depends on that and that alone.
Maybe if we are to ignore what Carson said…then we should ignore all outrageous diatribes by all candidates……and we know that will NOT happen, right?
But did this lift Ben beyond the “Donald”…..probably not….but it will send him higher in the polls…..after all that is what is needed to rise….feed the fear!
You are absolutely right, this GOP campaign is really about who can be the most outrageous. Ben’s comments on their own defy the constitution which he claims he is defending. Clearly he hasn’t got a clue for being such a smart guy. And this whole “politically correct” thing that they keep bringing up is only a problem when they want to say horrible disgusting things about someone or something. It is there means of justifying their own bad behavior and that of their “followers”. Anyway, great piece my friend.
Thanx…I appreciate the comment…..theatrics that is the name of the game in politics…..
The “Average” American … the ones who were once proudly in the Middle Class and the ones who have always been in the underclasses do outnumber the refined, educated and successful, I am sure. (Although I have no figures to prove it with). And the Americans at that level are exponentially bigoted and prejudiced most of the time (Always have been regardless of how well they wave the flag or how well they spout moralistic platitudes) and they are also largely uninformed or misinformed (Thanks to Media Mind Wash) and unconcerned (Apathetic) with anything but those things that make sure their next day of Life in The Land of The Free is less miserable than the one that went before. Been there; done that! That is how I was raised in a poorish household by my Dad who was rabidly supportive of the very right wing forces that kept him in economic bondage most of his life.
When I say Average American I am speaking of those people that read or hear a report and they take it and run with it without checking to see if there is more to it than the one report they got…..
I was raised poor also….a working Mom and a grandmother….when I did get to know my father he was a raging racist….he refused to see any value in anyone but a white person…..we did not get along very well…..
Mine was the exact same way.Interesting!
Carson says we cant elect someone who’s faith might interfere with the constitution…. This is coming from the same man who said evolution is the work of Satan, yes Satan! Ha!
He is a typical Teabagger…..the Constitution is only important to those that have no idea what is in it….