Carson’s rise has also been fueled by gains with Tea Party supporters. Among those who consider themselves part of the limited-government movement, he gets a third of the support, up from 21 percent in August. More than two-thirds of likely GOP caucus-goers also say that on the basis of religion alone, it would be unacceptable for a Muslim to be a U.S. president— a view Carson espoused in a Sept. 20 appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press…. “He just says what he believes and I like that,” said Bruce Lindberg, 56, a chiropractor from Ottumwa who is leaning toward supporting Carson. “I like his story. He’s been a hard worker and I don’t think anything was given to him. He knows what it takes to be successful and that you have to work for it.”
There’s ill-informed. There’s willfully ignored. There’s flat-lined-on-the-EEG brain-dead. Then there’s whatever in the Hell is going on in Iowa, where Republican primary voters are redefining the term “lowest common denominator.” It’s not that I don’t support Carson (I don’t), or even merely that I find his policy proposals abhorrent and poorly considered (I most certainly do). No, what gobsmacks me is that someone who’s spent the entire GOP Presidential primary campaign saying truly, deeply, indescribably stupid things- and then doubling down on them- has garnered what appears to be enough support to win the Iowa Caucuses if they were to be held today. That anyone could be so thoroughly intellectually and morally vacant as to believe Ben Carson is even remotely qualified to manage a Dairy Queen, much less sit behind the big desk in the Oval Office is stunning.
A reasonable person might find themselves asking, “WTF is wrong with Iowa??“…and I’m not certainly I could begin to provide an answer. Carson is the same candidate that stated he’d have no problem with regulating Liberal speech on college campuses, but Conservative speech would get a free pass. Evidently the good doctor has yet to familiarize himself with the 1st Amendment. If you believe one of the perks of being President is to regulate political speech, you have no business believing yourself to be cut from Presidential cloth.
How is it that someone who had the intellectual wherewithal to get through medical school and become a neurosurgeon could betray themselves as so astonishingly, mind-numbingly stupid? Worse yet, how is that that he could garner the support of so many Republican voters? Are they really Just. That. Stupid??
As if the answer to that question isn’t already self-evident.
The poll suggests Carson has more room to grow in Iowa, partly because his controversial statements generally aren’t turning off even other candidates’ supporters. Among that group, 56 percent find “very attractive” his statements that the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is the worst thing since slavery, while 41 percent feel that way about his opposition to a Muslim president. Nearly half find “very attractive” his statement that Adolf Hitler’s mass murder of Jews might not have been as successful if more people had been armed.
I’m sorry, but anyone who finds anything Carson says to be “very attractive” is clearly too stupid and inattentive to be allowed anywhere near a voting booth. If you share the belief that Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery and that Hitler’s Final Solution would have found less success if only more Jews had been armed, you have no business deciding anything relating to the future of this country. You clearly have no grasp of democracy, the Constitution, or simple human decency and compassion. How you haven’t spent your life heavly sedated in a padded room defies rational understanding. Please, for the sake of the country, stay home on Election Day; you have no business getting anywhere near a voting booth.
I have no problem with those who disagree with me for sound, fact-based reasons. Dissent is one of the things that fuels our democracy- but there’s a difference between dissent and disagreement and flat-out, full-blown ignorance and slavish devotion to mean-spirited, irrational Right-wing propaganda. If you lack the decency to recognize that Carson is a tool with nothing remotely positive to offer this country, you probably shouldn’t be allowed out in public unescorted.
WTF is wrong with people these days??
