Ben Carson is toast

Stick a fork in Ben Carson, he is done, finished and will be out soon. Here is why:

Ben Carson’s campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.The academy has occupied a central place in Carson’s tale for years. According to a story told in Carson’s book, “Gifted Hands,” the then-17 year old was introduced in 1969 to Gen. William Westmoreland, who had just ended his command of U.S. forces in Vietnam, and the two dined together. That meeting, according to Carson’s telling, was followed by a “full scholarship” to the military academy.West Point, however, has no record of Carson applying, much less being extended admission. Via:  Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship – POLITICO

Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com has the round-up and it looks baaad. 🙁 There is one thing that is instant death knell for a campaign, especially if you are a Republican; is lying. Democrats can do this, Republicans cannot. It’s over for Carson. He might as well pack it in now.

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7 thoughts on “Ben Carson is toast

  1. Nobody is flawless. If anybody cared to look into my past, but I spilled the goods on myself in my book, “Early Out”, which focuses on my Vegas life for the most part. It is the core of my book.
    On the other hand, I’m not looking to get into the oval office. I never really was too enthusiastic about Carson. Just some visceral instinct I had about the man. I like Cruz. He seems pretty solid. No more black guys! Oops, that just slipped out.

    1. Nobody is flawless.

      True.

      If anybody cared to look into my past, but I spilled the goods on myself in my book, “Early Out”, which focuses on my Vegas life for the most part. It is the core of my book.

      Interesting.

      On the other hand, I’m not looking to get into the oval office.

      True.

      I never really was too enthusiastic about Carson. Just some visceral instinct I had about the man.

      Same here.

      I like Cruz. He seems pretty solid.

      Pish… That Cuban/Canadian interloper? Please. 🙄 If you believe that the constitution and not the SCOTUS should dictate our laws, then Cigar Box boy cruz shouldn’t even be allowed to be President.

      No more black guys!

      Ouch.

      Oops, that just slipped out.

      Sure sure…

    1. Honestly? I don’t think that there is anything wrong with Carson. I think that Carson wrote that book, way back in the early 1990’s and he wrote it thinking that he wouldn’t ever be running for President of the United States. So, it contained his life story, as he remembered it.

      Now that he is running for President, his past and his book are being put under the scopes and they are finding things not to be as he remembered them. This is happening more so, because he is running as a Republican and is very much a Conservative Christian; that is just the way it works in American politics, because the marxist left basically controls the media anymore. Except for Fox and it’s moving more and more left as time moves on and Rupert gets older and his kids take over the network.

      If any fault is to be placed, it should be placed on those who did not sit with Carson and explain to him that if he was not being 100% honest with everyone, about his past, that the leftist media would savage him for it. This should have been done and it was not and that is an obvious failure with his political consultants.

      To be fair, politico did soften that headline up and Carson did do some pushback. But, still, I think Carson will suffer in the polls for it.

    1. I wouldn’t say that he’s pathological. but, I think he’s got a bad problem with not stating clearly the entire truth and may have embellished his life story to sell a book and now it’s catching up with him.

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