I’ve heard politicians called empty suits before, but Carson is the one that fits it best. I’d say I’ll miss him, but there isn’t really anything to miss.
The money ran out. It’s as simple as that.
But not before collecting a terrific mailing list that can keep paying long after the election, which may have been the plan all along.
He’ll be out by the end of the month.
Carson’s wife, Candy Carson, wrote a book recently, and it has some more fun stories from his life, like this totally believable one: he chased down his carjackers, and then befriended him.
I would love to know how this story came about, since it’s one that happened to Carson that his wife is telling. I might be a little sad when he drops out, because that means there will be fewer Carson stories coming out.
I am just disappointed that he didn’t stab Steve Doocy to prove what a terrible person he is.
I have a really hard time swallowing that one. A man with Carson’s supposed intellect leaves the keys in his Jag in a bad neighborhood? Or did the thugs hot wire it like they did on all the 1970s police dramas? And he can outrun a car? And the thugs were fans of his? No, no bullshit there, moving right along.
I’ve never stolen a Jag… but I’m pretty sure that if I did, it’d be so I could drive it fast. Like, faster than a human can run.
I’m surprised he didn’t point out a more appropriate car.
This particular Jag was specially modified for Ben Carson.
So far it seems to be a bizarro mailing list, at least from my perspective.
Last week I got a Carson fundraising mailing, complete with a frameable lithograph of Ben, which also contains a “signed” note in which Carson calls me “a true patriot” and “a shining example of the best America has to offer”. Aw gee Ben, you’ll make me blush.
What’s weird is that I am not now and have never been a member of the Republican Party (to use 1950s jargon), and cannot conceivably have donated money to causes which Carson supports (I doubt he is a closet supporter of Planned Parenthood, for instance). The mailing isn’t explainable because he got my name off a list of physicians (both of the colleagues I work with on a day to day basis didn’t receive it). Heck, I don’t even buy Mannatech supplements.
Anyone else been honored by the signed lithograph treatment?
Membership in a decidedly right wing message board? Like the blonde gold-digger chasing after me, said she was greedy, didn’t say anything about smart…
Are you a member of any professional organizations that they aren’t? AMA, your state’s pathology group, etc.
“Today, Mr. Carson, that would be you.”
“Sir, none of us are in class because we had to come to this stupid assembly to hear you talk.”
God, I sincerely hope he doesn’t.
See post 26566:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=511831&page=532
Ben Carson asked fifth-graders to single out the ‘worst student’ in their class, so they did.
He would have been an excellent Sleeper of the House. Speaker? Not so much.