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I’d rather be water boarded than ''remember" any of Carson’s list of absurdities. Only Sarah Palin rivals Carson in dumbness from a national candidate in modern times.
He has made a fool of himself. Physician, heal thyself.
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One Wittle Wee-Wee … that’s all it takes, Dr. Carson, right? This election year’s GOP debates are the weirdest, by far, than in any in my lifetime. Since we can’t respond directly to Josh’s great editorials, I’ll say little something here.
“You may have noticed that during the debate audience members in the line of sight behind the moderators were giving thumbs ups, making faces or just aping for the cameras like you’d expect to see as a football game or a wrestling match.” (Josh Marshall, from last night’s final editor’s notes)
Sarah Palin started legitimizing this behavior eight years ago. Now, Donald Trump–himself, a larger-than-life cartoon character–has fully unleashed the dogs. Some years back, there was a hit song entitled “Who Let the Dogs Out?” Well, it seems the answer to that question was standing on that debate stage last night – The Tang-Orange Real Estate Titan, better known as “The Donald,” that’s who.
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Dr Ben Carson will be as well remembered for his 2016 Presidential candidacy as Herman Cain was for his in 2012…
any speculation on which Republican gets to fill this spot in 2020?
the “Grain Silos” will live forever in American political culture, like the Demon Sheep or John McCain’s Black Baby.
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Mia Love? Thomas Sowell? J.C.Watts?
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You can hear closet queen Armstrong Williams throwing a major temper tantrum since he lost his latest grifting gig…
I will miss the comic relief. Kinda like 9-9-9!
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yeah… I thought Mia Love too… bonus points for being a woman 
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Go all the way stupid with Stacey Dash…
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Relive The Weirdest And Wackiest Moments Of Carson’s 2016 Campaign
No thanks!
Relive The Weirdest And Wackiest Moments Of Carson’s 2016 Campaign
Does anyone really want to watch the entire debate again?
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The only thing Mental Ben needed to remember…he forgot and misplaced it, Big Time!
Another clod in a long list whose name will become the punchline for political jokes which only Historians will understand. He still won’t get as much mileage as Stassen and Cain, but with America becoming inexorably more and more stupid, Carson’s name will probably fade from what passes for the National memory sometime around mid-Summer. By this time next year, most Americans will identify him as a TV pitch man or another guy hawking stuff on late night cable.
No, sir. The Great American National Stupid have decreed that this is the year of Dump. Carson has had his 15 minutes, and he wasted 14 minutes and 59 seconds of it. Situation Normal, I’d say.
No thanks!.. I’ll just do Bad Lip Reading’s version of One Wittle WeeWee.
BTW Here’s BLR featuring Croooze…
Carson was much weirder and nuttier and pathetic than this article captures.
I watched the “traffic jam” video for the first time just now, and my impression was that the sound really was an issue (Kasich also missed his cue), and Trump was the one causing a traffic jam.
Attacks on the electric grid are taken very seriously as a threat by security experts, and use of that idea in a movie plot doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the threat in any way.
I vacillate between viewing Carson as a determined grifter and Carson as a person with such a great need to hear how wonderful he is that some truly determined grifters have found it easy to hijack and manipulate him as a vehicle for their enrichment. I look at his behavior in the campaign and his tasteless and sad (“Poverbs”) shrine to himself in his residence, and I see the man with demons kept at bay only by constant adulation from others. I look at the National Prayer Breakfast attack on Obama that launched his political career, and I see the calculating grifter creating his brand image.
On balance, I think Carson has become pathetic, and that his shortcomings during the campaign may stem in part from some physical condition that has arisen in the last few years.
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This hypocrite couldn’t even complete the 72-hour waiting period from Tuesday night’s bloody, twitching mess of a debate before aborting his microcephalic campaign.
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I have been falling down on the job. This is only the second entry in my ‘2016 Funniest Stories on TPM’ File.
The first one was the charging elephant.
I think I missed that one second—must have dozed off.
There aren’t enough electrons to post a story with all of Carson’s weird and wacky moments.