And on Chris Hayes, he was talking to some gal (reporter?)...barfo, she was giving a GLOWWING run down on him.

Gag.

His handlers will find Carson very easy to control -- through appeals to his ego -- just as Reagan's and the Shrub's handlers did.

Narcissists like Carson can be manipulated very easily by people like Cheney. Someone is behind this puppet, pulling his strings.

Or will be, if he manages to pull off the primary.

would never comprehend what's going on.

of Carson

malleable rising star they can perhaps push into office. Also, Carson does not know WTF he's doing, so that makes him an even better robot for their shenanigans.

were president, then the US might as well start writing its epitaph.

...stage in most other countries.

So go figure. He's either dumb or using religion to manipulate and get votes like most Repubs do.

.. believed in Fairies and Angels, I started thinking "This is not the world I wanted to live in"

easily manipulated by pressing the right buttons for them.

Actually exist.

would still vote for him. This country is insane, utterly and completely insane.

rhetoric again with her team of nincompoop lawyers on the take for $$$$'s. There are so damn many crazies in the US today. It is literally US = United Stupidity.

It runs throughout the entire country. If he continues to gain momentum there are enough damn fools in the US to make him a serious contender.

and all their insanity. Just out-crazy the next guy until self-defense is long forgotten and half your day is spent praying. At least, monks keep their mouths shut.

and people, but IMO some are treading that path. IMO some of the religious RW would be just like ISIS given the chance.

the US, but the growing idiot factor is destroying that. In my youth many of the presidential hopefuls of today would have been laughed off their perch.

of the average voter has plummeted in recent decades, and more so in the last few years.

I find it very odd that he's still in the game for this long. The first primaries are coming up soon.

Hopefully America wakes up soon, they'll realize that the GOP has completely lost their minds.

"Amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic" is a VERY common right-wing meme used to explain why we should elect people with no experience in politics. Because...well, you know, OBVIOUSLY people who've never built a ship before are much better at it than people who do it for a living.

I have to wonder: when Ben Carson goes in for that colostomy he needs to find his head, is he going to hire a doctor or a pastry chef to do it?

It quite simple. The GOP is self destructing at all all time high. No one wants to vote for the establishment candidates. Republicants in this country have had enough. They're done. ANYONE ELSE will do. Give it a month, and then let's see who will be the top clown.

Reason 1: they want a business person, not anyone who's ever held elective office of any kind...but they'll settle for a businessman who took a short break from business to dabble in politics. This narrows the field down to Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina. Think back to the last two Republicans to run for president: both of them had a lot more business experience than political.

Reason 2: Of the three "business people," Ben Carson is, sad to say, the closest to being a sane choice. Trump is nuttier than a fruitcake and Carly Fiorina's experience is in firing people and running companies into the ground. Carson was, when he was in the business world, one of the best in the world at his chosen profession.

Carson's problem is, the things teabaggers look for in a president (namely, the willingness to cut taxes to the bone and completely deregulate guns, and the ability to bring up Talibornagain religion at least once a minute) are not the things the general electorate wants to see. I think the only way we DON'T win against Ben Carson, is if we run Lee Mercer Jr. as our candidate.

who believe he will win because African Americans are so stuuuupid they will vote for skin color, instead of what is in their best interest. They can abide a "real African American" if he is waaaaaaaaaay talibornagain. And he is.

Carson will founder.

I'm leaning Kasich - former governor (executive experience), not all that well known outside his home state (which means his failings, and there are many, also aren't all that well known outside his home state), not so conservative he'll scare grandma into the D column, and not given to Trump/Carson/Fiorina/Christie-style verbal diarrhea. Also isn't related to the guy who started Great Depression II.

I read somewhere that God shrunk the animals to make them all fit on the ark, then brought them back to their normal size when the journey was over. He did this not just to make them fit, but to prevent Noah and his family from being trampled, eaten, etc.

IIRC it took a year for the floodwaters to completely recede. If God hadn't done SOMETHING, when the Ark landed atop Mount Ararat the only things that would have walked out of that boat would have been four beach ball-shaped apex predators.

I have NO REASON WHATSOEVER to doubt that Carson really believes what he says. He is an educated MORAN!

While there were demonstrable design flaws in the titanic, I'd rather be on it than Noah's Ark on any given journey.

Even the metaphor sucks.

He's a fuckin' lunatic. Fried brains. Severed. Stabbed. Hammered. Totally insane. Really.

What could possibly make idiocracy seem quaint.

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Carson is so obviously, glaringly unqualified to be president. It boggles my mind that anyone can take him seriously.

He is also unqualified in the religion department. No real religion scholar takes the story of Noah's ark literally. I teach the story to my college students, alongside the flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh (one of several versions of the story that predate the Noah version - the oldest one, the Eridu Genesis, dating back to 2300 BCE, while Noah only dates back to somewhere between 1000-500 BCE if I remember correctly). I love the story, and it's fun to see the changes the ancient Hebrew writers (there were 2 versions, woven together later by redactors) made to the original stories (all of which also differ a little bit from each other, while keeping the same plot). I despise literal readings of it, because it is not only ridiculous (in terms of being impossible), but it also completely misses the point of the story, which was to retell a common story of the time into a tale of monotheism vs. polytheism.

They take all the other variants as proof that their specific version is the truth.

I just boggle at some of the idiocy they spew...

I agree that Answers in Genesis is garbage. The material in the first 11 chapters of the Bible is mythological, and it's actually fascinating stuff, but literal readings of it gives me the creeps. I am religious, but I hate fundamentalism with the fire of a thousand suns, LOL!

Maybe it's best for those waiting in cues for brain surgery that Carson has taken down his shingle. He may be messed up in the head.

There is no more specialized skill than neurosurgeon. No amateurs are allowed in the operating theater -- ever. If someone showed up saying God told them to operate, they'd be quickly arrested and spend time in a psych ward.

Carson shows up, with no experience in government, expecting to run a country with a 17 trillion dollar economy, while comparing himself to Noah. This isn't gall. It's mental illness.

In fact, I'm certain he's unqualified! But what member of the 2016 GOPack IS?