Discussion: Ben Carson: Of Course People Should Have To Get Vaccines

system1 · February 3, 2015, 2:33am

Discussion for article #232779

ewparris · February 3, 2015, 2:40am

What are the odds that Ben Carson would end up on this side of the crazy line compared to Christie and Paul on anything?

teenlaqueefa · February 3, 2015, 2:45am

LOL

Clown car indeed.

inlabsitrust · February 3, 2015, 2:45am

He clarified his statement with:“I vaccine clean my carpet all the time. Sometimes the wife does it, too.”

counter_coulter · February 3, 2015, 2:46am

You know you’ve hit downtown crazyville when Ben Carson is the voice of reason. Are you listening Paul and Christie?

marcus8182 · February 3, 2015, 2:49am

It’s a sad state for the GOP when a Republican says something obvious and common sense - and it’s considered newsworthy.

inlabsitrust · February 3, 2015, 2:49am

“Of course people should have to get vaccine cleaners. How the hell else will they clean their carpets,” Carson asked?

teenlaqueefa · February 3, 2015, 2:53am

Swear to fucking god, I’d be a right winger if the left were really this disjointed.

Thank dog they’re not.

daveminnj · February 3, 2015, 3:00am

There goes the nomination, but if this helps to prick the anti vaccination balloon. i’m going to send the man some flowers.

buckeyeborn · February 3, 2015, 3:01am

A real Doctor joins in putting down the fake doctors of the GOP. Only time I will praise Dr. Ben.

earthquakeweather · February 3, 2015, 3:03am

Stopped clock. Twice a day. We can’t expect one sane statement is a harbinger with this guy.

manhattan123 · February 3, 2015, 3:19am

Hello blind squirrel, say hi to this acorn.

frankly_my_dear · February 3, 2015, 3:30am

Well, he may be as bat-shit crazy as the rest of them, but at least he’s not a libertarian.

navamske · February 3, 2015, 3:43am

Who is this person and what has he done with the real Dr. Ben Carson?

forkedtongue · February 3, 2015, 4:22am

Well, there you go, congratulations Dr. Ben. In some alternative fantasyland where this issue is the only one the nation had to worry about looking forward, you might have just become my favorite Republican. In the meantime, how did we ever come to a point where this was even a partisan issue? Oh yeah…The Libertarian/Republican nexus.

tweetivism · February 3, 2015, 4:28am

The Anti-Vaxxers remind me of the left shark at the Super Bowl.

jaybeeraybee · February 3, 2015, 4:42am

Outside of his celebrity within the Republican Party, since that’s all he’s been good for, who gives a fuck what a neurosurgeon thinks about vaccinations? This is as bad as people caring what that Paleo-Cardiologist (e.g. a heart doctor who thinks a healthy cardio system depends on eating like a fucking cave man!!) had to say about the issue. OK, they went through medical school, so they’re probably more qualified than, say, your average college biology student, but other than that this perpetuates what normal college students call the Expert Opinion fallacy… just because you’re an expert in one thing doesn’t mean you’re an expert in EVERYTHING.

Ugh.

ajm · February 3, 2015, 4:55am

Hint to Ben Carson: When individuals fail to make sense in areas that you know about, the likelihood is that they are failing to make sense in areas that you know nothing about. Put another way, never accept a used ‘fact’ from a fellow GOPer.

Now do you get why we think the group you are with is completely nuts?

mmurdoch · February 3, 2015, 5:09am

Trying to come up with a few slogans for the movement:

“Give me measles, or give me death!”
“I’ll give up my small pox when you pry it from these cold, dead hands”
“God, guns and pertussis”
“Cholera doesn’t kill people, doctors kill people!”

bluestatedon · February 3, 2015, 5:16am

Welp, Ben’s had his bi-monthly attack of lucidity and common sense, so tomorrow the krazy dial will be turned up to 11 again. It was nice for a moment here, though.