GOP field grows: Longshots Fiorina, Carson launch their bids

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  1. Johnny-C

    Johnny-C Well-Known Member

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    No. He has GREAT accomplishments. And it is a fact that many on the Right are simply opposed to him. That opposition is not always logical or faction.

    What? Stop being hostile, please. You'll get nowhere with that nonsense.
     
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    You just don't understand... lip service and symbolism is far more important than substance and tangible achievements. Besides... Barry is a sacred cow for the benevolent white supremacists and should be held to a lower standard.
     
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    So in your mind the choice will be between an honest right wing crackpot and a left wing thieving lying criminal whose every activity for the past 50 years has been surrounded by corruption.

    The crackpot is clearly the better choice. Glad you will be voting for the Republican.
     
  4. Professor Peabody

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    Obamanomics less than 2% mean growth from the minute Obama took office.

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    About 4% GDP growth over the same time period in his term.
     
  5. APACHERAT

    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Clowns" ???

    You don't get out much do you ?

    Have you ever looked what's under the Democrat's party tent ?

    Even Bozo and Chuckles feel threaten.
     
  6. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    As a politician he seems a talented doctor

    Just because someone is talented in one field does not mean this carries over. I'm sure we've all heard of William Shockley
     
  7. HTownMarine

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    Democrat polices have helped out so much in Baltimore and Detroit, strictly run by Democrats for the last 50 years.

    Yes, I want America to look like those places :/
     
  8. HTownMarine

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    :roflol:

    Please verify any of this. Proof?

    How do you know he graduated tops in his class? Are you the only one with access to his grades? I've heard his own teachers say he was a (*)(*)(*)(*) student.

    This whole post needs to be deleted for lies and false claims.

    News flash, nobody globally respects Obama or Clinton. I think that much is pretty obvious.
     
  9. For Topical Use Only

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    They write their own gags.
     
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    Be honest here. Obama came from the position of junior senator and community organizer. In what world does that equal the accomplishments of one of the world's top neurosurgeons? Carson is bright beyond belief. I don't care what anyone calls anyone, I'm just saying that those who label someone who's brought so much to medical science, "a clown," has much more in common with the label.

    I won't be voting for Carson because his beliefs differ strongly from mine, but he's no clown.

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    I agree with this, which is why I won't be voting for him. But, he's no clown.
     
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    This is what our presidential election has come down to, a bunch of crackpots against one of the biggest crooks on the planet.

    These are our best and brightest?

    These are the cream of the cream, the people we want to represent us to the rest of the world?

    Surely we can do better.
     
  12. Professor Peabody

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    Post a link to his transcript.
     
  13. TomFitz

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    I don't care about Ben Carson's skin color.

    Donald Trump is a fake candidate too, and he's white.

    Ben Carson is a big ego who thinks he knows everything. One thing he does know, is how to game the presidential election process for celebrity and profit.

    I fully expect him to either quit as soon as he thinks he and con men in his campaign think they've made enough money, or he'll say one too many arrogant and stupid things.

    He won't be President. In fact, I would seriously doubt that he'll even last as long as the New Hampshire Primary.

    He's a joke of a candidate, in a field full of marginal candidates.

    This is what the GOP gets for nominating a tabloid celebrity as a candidate on a major party ticket.
     
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    The one where people expect a would be President to have actual experience in the field in which he runs.

    Being one of the world's top neurosurgeons is not qualification for running a government.

    If Carson was actually serious, he's run for Senate and spend some time in government, where getting things accomplished through people and the art of persuasion are key attributes. Ironically, surgeons, as a group, are notoriously lacking in either skill.

    Not that it matters, Carson won't make it through the early primaries, even if he lasts that long.
     
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    I believe thats what they said about Barack and look how far he got.

    Never say never... the people will decide.
     
  16. Johnny-C

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    Being pulled out of a near-depression, says a lot more than that graph you provided. Reasonable people realize that.

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    Go read. All of that is common knowledge.
     
  17. Johnny-C

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    Believe what you want (not to mention the reality that Obama's grades are irrelevant to just about any significant topic).
     
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    But Carson is a clown.

    As for your logic, just because a person is good at their job doesn't mean that they'll be good at another job. Carson is a horrible politician and is woefully ignorant about social issues. Maybe he can do his own brain surgery and fix whatever issue he has going on in that crazy head.

    FOX News dropped Carson as a contributor. Carson's mouth is dangerous, and he trivialized slavery, that the veteran scandal is a "gift from God," that prisons created homosexuality, that marriage was created by God, called Obama a "psychopath," and compared the Founding Fathers to ISIS.
     
  19. Johnny-C

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    Truly, this business over his grades is truly irrelevant to the topic.

    Time to move on.
     
  20. Professor Peabody

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    I agree with you.......Reasonable people realize that Reagan faced worse than Obama. Not only did GDP tank as bad but he had to deal with run away inflation and interest rates. Look at the charts again.....one economic plan worked and the other failed miserably.

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    Are you saying that because he's Black?
     
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    Fox News usually severs ties with paid contributors when it's known they intend to soon declare their intention to be a candidate. The move was mutual, and Carson is still an unpaid guest.
     
  22. Johnny-C

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    Exactly.

    Carson should not become President in my view.
     
  23. Johnny-C

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    So what? The world has changed a lot since Reagan was President.

    How is what you say relevant to the issues Americans face today?
     
  24. Lee S

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    If you feel it was relevant, then why did you bring it up as item No. 1 in Post no. 15? Clearly, you thought it added to the narrative that Obama isn't a complete idiot but upon closer scrutiny, your thoughts on the matter don't seem to be grounded in facts. But the concept that you believe Obama was competent in school does fit the narrative that Obama is little more than a flim-flam man who became President because he conned most of America while having the thinnest resume' of any president ever.

    Move on, if you wish, but if one gets scammed, a review of why it happened may be to your advantage.
     
  25. Professor Peabody

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    We're talking overall principals. Anyone who had to live through the Carter disaster economy years know just how bad it was. We also see the same failed liberal Democrat policies rearing their ugly heads today.
     

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