Ben Carson 'Suspends' Campaign For A Book Tour
Source: huffingtonpost
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) suspended his presidential campaign for a financial crisis. Famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson is doing so for a book tour.
According to ABC News, Carson has put his public campaign events on hold to focus on fundraising events and stops to promote his new book, A More Perfect Union. He is scheduled to hold book signings next week in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
Carson's last public event was a health care town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 2. He will not appear at a public campaign event again until the next Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, on Oct. 28.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-suspends-campaign_561fa44ae4b0c5a1ce622105
onehandle
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riversedge
(70,307 posts)She was wearing white tops in San Antonio TX today
onehandle
(51,122 posts)I liked the photo too, so I kept a copy.
riversedge
(70,307 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)It will soften you. She did great in the debate.
JudyM
(29,280 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)In an odd sort of way.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)That is a lot of suits. I had to select an oncologist and surgeons in 2014, and not one doc I considered had had a malpractice suit, ever. So I think it's not common to have 5. Not a doc I would choose for brain surgery Glad he's gone
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)When he's running second in the polls, and gaining on tRump?!
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)And tictacs!
PatSeg
(47,609 posts)to being the republican nominee. Like Huckabee, it was a way to make money off of books and lecture tours. Just another grifter!
Renew Deal
(81,875 posts)PatSeg
(47,609 posts)is hard work after all and these clowns don't want to work.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)PatSeg
(47,609 posts)look like Shakespeare.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Raise some funds, get your name out there, and ride that train!
PatSeg
(47,609 posts)and his wife are major grifters. They are always selling something.
I haven't figured out what Fiorina's angle is yet. I think she is just delusional.
erronis
(15,355 posts)In fact trying to be a politician usually indicates some aberrant behaviors, or an inability to do real work.
Oh, same for trying to be a religiogican.
PatSeg
(47,609 posts)obsessive about some presidential candidates who seem to care more about "winning" than actually "doing". I think Fiorina falls in that category.
sorechasm
(631 posts)Thinking you're a serious public servant. Make wild-ass statements for attention. Bank on the American Brand by selling tales. Then shirk all responsibility and laugh at the suckers who took you seriously.
How many times do the Charlie Brown GOP'ers need to watch Lucy pull the football and fall on their asses?
I'm afraid most republicans have very short memories. They buy the same shit over and over again.
randys1
(16,286 posts)Thank
GOD GOD GOD GOD
that NOT mccain and NOT romney but yes OBAMA for the past 8 yrs
I doubt we would even be alive to post on DU if not
PatSeg
(47,609 posts)remind myself of those alternatives and count my blessings.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)Keep him on 'how to do neurosurgery' and he makes sense. People like him because he's not Trump, and he's not the Republican politicians who have fucked things up so much. If he can keep the facade of being intellectually competent up by talking about what he was good at, and about political issues as little as possible, they might keep him popular for a bit longer.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)reading the tea leaves here
lark
(23,158 posts)His behavior is so bizarre now.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)you got me
underpants
(182,904 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)lark
(23,158 posts)So unless he's not really a board certified neurosurgeon, he had to be really smart at one time in his life.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)hatrack
(59,593 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)This "suspension" seems more like a slightly different form of campaigning versus a signal that Carson is ready to give up.
Of course, it's always possible that his accountant has calculated that he's extracted the maximum amount of fame from his preposterous candidacy, and it's time to monetize that notoriety before even the wingnuts realize that he's an empty fraud.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Something about 5 malpractice suits
Blus4u
(608 posts)The guy who does speak on his behalf always denies he has anything to do with the campaign and claims to be his "business manager".
Peace
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Paladin
(28,276 posts)Nice of Ben Carson to give us all such blatant evidence of his priorities.
Retrograde
(10,159 posts)writes a book called "A More Perfect Union"? And they say irony is dead.
underpants
(182,904 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)I was wondering when this turnip would fall of the damned truck
Jimbo S
(2,960 posts)behind Trump? To become #1 when Trump self-implodes?
Cruz would be my worst nightmare.
underpants
(182,904 posts)Gilmore is poised to make his move!!!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)So this is likely to get even more interesting than at that last Clownbus stop, Boehner stepping down.
Vinca
(50,310 posts)jomin41
(559 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)seriously think they have a shot at the presidency.
houston16revival
(953 posts)Blus4u
(608 posts)Recall that by that time the electorate had gotten a full dose of Palin's idiocy.
Unfortunately for McCain, the only one who showed up with a plan was Obama.
McCain sat at the table with a confused look on his face.
Peace
MissKat
(218 posts)I've thought for a while that Dr. Carson needs a doctor. His mumbled speech, the bizarre eye-closing behavior, the odd statements---these are things that don't seem like behavior one would expect from a brilliant (so we're told) neurosurgeon. The only thing that makes sense to me is that this man is ill.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)that's a lot
wordpix
(18,652 posts)he would be a terrible president
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)batshit crazy things to say and he's working on more.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)also Trump
muntrv
(14,505 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Moliere
(285 posts)Faux pas
(14,691 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)His book is about his political views. That should finish him. It's a lot of nonsense to defend. He will wind up with a radio show, selling supplements.
--imm
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)republicans game the rules and game the laws so they don't have to 'really work' to earn a living.
He will probably sell his book to his campaign (campaign gives them away free), then the campaign funds go into his personal pocket. republicans are pros at that 'game'.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)God, that feels unfair to Ross Perot.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'll give him this: running for President to sell a book is um...different.