Go, Ben, Go: Why I Want Ben Carson To Win the Republican Nomination
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My
husband observed the other day that it looks like Ben Carson is always stoned when he speaks. That made me laugh
because it’s true. Ben’s soft, measured
delivery is perfectly consistent with having just had a couple of deep
tokes from a banger joint, and then struggling for coherence as he expresses deep
thoughts.
It
would also explain some of those messy musings. Witness his take on the total absence of homeless
people: “Nobody is starving on the
streets. We’ve always taken care of
them. We take care of our own; we always
have. It is not the government’s responsibility.” You see?
In Ben’s world there are no starving people, so government shouldn’t
create a problem where, by golly, none exists.
Or
his take on homosexuality, which he says must be “chosen behavior” since men go
into prison straight but come out gay.
And on gay marriage, which he conflates with bestiality and the
practices of the National Man/Boy Love Association, which openly advocates
pedophilia: “My thoughts are that marriage is between a
man and a woman. It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society, and no
group — be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality —
it doesn’t matter what they are — they don’t get to change the definition.” Well, after a drag or two of good weed that
all fits together.
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Ben is a man of science,
right? A neurosurgeon ought to
understand biology, right? But Ben doesn’t
believe in evolution, nor does he understand even vaguely how evolution is said
to work. It just sounds like gobbeldygook
to him, so he laughs and makes fun of anyone who could possibly believe such
nonsense. [Alas, this is true of many of
the Republican candidates.] For Ben
Carson God supplies the answers and we need look no further than the Bible for
guidance on all issues, evolution thus being clearly wrong.
Ben has also said that Obamacare,
which he really hates, is more tragic for the nation than 9/11, and added another
apt historical comparison: “You know Obamacare
is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since
slavery. And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all
of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was
about control.” He then doubled-down on
this nonsense by commenting “I think what’s
happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you
take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and
the health care provider. And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively
small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the
entire population?”
Want
more? There are lots of his similar
wanderings from sanity on the net. See,
for example: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/5-ben-carson-quotes-proving-hes-too-crazy-to-be-president/
and http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/15/top-10-quotes-that-prove-neurosurgeon-ben-carson-doesnt-have-the-brain-to-be-president/.
Strangely
enough I do not fault Ben Carson for misremembering his own history (whether he
was offered a scholarship to West Point, or met with Westmoreland, etc.). All Ben is guilty of there is confabulation, a mental trick I’ve
written about before that makes all of us mindlessly rewrite our memories and
then believe them to the point where we’d pass a lie detector test [see “We All
Are Brian Williams: Confabulation Muddles Our Stories,” April 20, 2015; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-all-are-brian-williams-confabulation.html].
Every single candidate running for the
Presidency is guilty of this same confusion, as is everyone reading this, so I
give Ben a pass on his faulty memory.
This
presidential election I’ll confess to being something of a Yellow Dog
Democrat. The phrase refers to someone
who’s so partial to voting for Democrats that if the Democrats nominated a
yellow dog, they would vote for that dog.
Sure, on the rare occasion in my life I’ve voted for a moderate
Republican, but that species has died out so I won’t have a chance to do that
again. And once or twice there’s been a
Democratic candidate for some office so bad that I couldn’t pull the lever to
support the jerk. But for the 2016
election the Democrats aren’t running a yellow dog. They’re going to run Hilary Clinton, and she’ll
make a fine president. I’m sure hoping
the Republicans nominate one of the current clowns in the running,
and Ben is my very favorite opponent for Hilary. She’d stomp him flat, probably 90-10 in the
final tally. Hell, a good looking
yellow dog would also likely beat him.
So my chant is "Go, Ben, Go!"
In a future post I’ll switch to “Go, Donald, Go!”
with similar (perhaps even greater) enthusiasm.
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Posts:
“A Guide to the Best of My Blog,” April 29,
2013; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-guide-to-best-of-my-blog.html
“Ohio To Put Guns in Baby Strollers,” June 17,
2012;http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2012/06/ohio-to-put-guns-in-baby-strollers.html
“Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade,”
August 17, 2012; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2012/08/supreme-court-overrules-roe-v-wade.html
“Killing the Filibuster and Letting the Majority Rule in the Senate,” December 31, 2013; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2013/12/killing-filibuster-and-letting-majority.html
“How To Get Rid of Your Student Loans,” June 13, 2013; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to-get-rid-of-your-student-loans.html
“The Shame of Republicans in Congress,” March
23, 2015; http://douglaswhaley.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-shame-of-republicans-in-congress.html
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