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kpete

(71,997 posts) Mon Jan 5, 2015, 11:47 AM Jan 2015

"You have to know a lot of stuff"

Conservative Clown Car...AaallllAbord! "you have to know a lot of stuff"

- Ben Carson, a retired surgeon popular with Tea Party conservatives, has said he will decide by May 1 whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, according to a media report. In an interview with NewsMaxTV last week, Carson said he is still studying various political issues as he weighs a potential run for the White House. "You have to know a lot of stuff," he told NewsMaxTV on Friday.

Tough threshold for a Republican?
http://news.yahoo.com/ben-carson-sets-may-deadline-decide-presidential-run-152222840.html

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"You have to know a lot of stuff" (Original Post) kpete Jan 2015 OP

Not really a tough threshold. Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #1

Kinda like trying to stuff a pea with a pumpkin in his case. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2015 #2

Oh, come on, Rick Perry says “Running for the presidency’s not an IQ test,”, djean111 Jan 2015 #3

Didn't GW Bush prove that you don't have to know anything at all? world wide wally Jan 2015 #4

How Insulting! ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #5

I'm not even so sure of that. He was working on that same pile of brush for 8 years world wide wally Jan 2015 #6

OK. Perhaps I Overestimated ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #7

^ DUZY. nt TBF Jan 2015 #8

Unless you're a Bush Politicalboi Jan 2015 #9

Just remember your political platform. It's too easy when it's two words Victor_c3 Jan 2015 #10

You don't really need to know a lot of stuff, in fact. That's what advisers are for. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #11

Like the president of Ubekibekibekistanstan NuclearDem Jan 2015 #12

Gee, you have to wonder how he got in medical school TexasMommaWithAHat Jan 2015 #13

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. Not really a tough threshold.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 11:50 AM

Jan 2015

If there were some requirement that everything they know has to have some connection to reality, truth, or at least supporting evidence, then it would be a tough threshold.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

2. Kinda like trying to stuff a pea with a pumpkin in his case.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 11:52 AM

Jan 2015

djean111

(14,255 posts)

3. Oh, come on, Rick Perry says “Running for the presidency’s not an IQ test,”,

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 11:56 AM

Jan 2015

Ben just needs some new thoughty-looking glasses!

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)

4. Didn't GW Bush prove that you don't have to know anything at all?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:03 PM

Jan 2015

ProfessorGAC

(65,078 posts)

5. How Insulting!

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:10 PM

Jan 2015

He clearly knew how to clear brush! So, he knew SOMETHING.

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)

6. I'm not even so sure of that. He was working on that same pile of brush for 8 years

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:25 PM

Jan 2015

and I don't know that he ever finished.

ProfessorGAC

(65,078 posts)

7. OK. Perhaps I Overestimated

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:29 PM

Jan 2015

He did know, however, that it was unsightly, and something needed to be done.

You may be onto something that he didn't know how to achieve that result.

TBF

(32,068 posts)

8. ^ DUZY. nt

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:30 PM

Jan 2015

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)

9. Unless you're a Bush

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:13 PM

Jan 2015

Then even the media makes excuses for you. "He coins his own words".

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)

10. Just remember your political platform. It's too easy when it's two words

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:29 PM

Jan 2015

Fuck 'em.

What's your position on the poor? Fuck 'em!
What about immigrants? Fuck 'em!
Women? Fuck 'em
Veterans? Fuck 'em!
Minorities?
Homosexuals?
Climate change?
Workers rights?

Wealthy CEOs? Ha got you on that one!

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

11. You don't really need to know a lot of stuff, in fact. That's what advisers are for.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:58 PM

Jan 2015

You DO probably need to know enough to be able to make informed executive decisions. Which isn't always easy; JFK's "best and brightest", McNamara and Bundy et al, were responsible for the debacle of Vietnam with the "domino theory"; Bush's foreign policy advisers were responsible for the mess of Iraq and Afghanistan. Which is probably the result of foreign policy and military policy formulated by ideologues with little to no room for dissent.

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)

12. Like the president of Ubekibekibekistanstan

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Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:09 PM

Jan 2015

TexasMommaWithAHat

(3,212 posts)

13. Gee, you have to wonder how he got in medical school

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Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:12 PM

Jan 2015

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