This is not the way to end your presidential bid. This sounds so much like sour grapes to me.
I never actually thought Dr. Ben Carson had a good chance of winning the GOP nomination because of one thing and that was not the color of his skin. It was because he didn’t seem that strong when he hit the stage. He didn’t seem strong in the debates. People liked him, and most still do, but being liked doesn’t get you the chair in the oval office. There has to be some love included. Even though I was told as a young man not fall in love with a candidate, what I just said is very true.
Carson was interviewed by the Washington Post and was asked about his plummeting poll numbers and well it wasn’t an answer you were expecting from the mild-mannered physician. Sadly, I think it’s too late for this rhetoric.
Carson blamed the media narrative that he was a gentle person with no foreign policy experience and lacks the skills needed to deal with national security matters.
From the Washington Post:
“We want to be comforted, we want to be comforted quickly, and we go for the bright, shiny object as the solution rather than being a little more cerebral. You know, if you think back to Abraham Lincoln, he was not a loud, bombastic person by any measure. Ungainly, lanky, uncouth, but very courageous and very strong.”
Carson also addressed his comment at a debate about China being in Syria, admitting that was a mistake:
“I said that on the basis of what some people in the CIA tell me. And of course, subsequent information came out that there is some Chinese [involvement in Syria]. But they made it seem like I’m saying there are a bunch of Chinese boots on the ground. Well, everybody knows that Chinese have physical characteristics that would make them pretty easy to identify in a setting like that.”
Carson also admitted the campaign so far has been “brutal,” but he’s still in the race to win because “the country is worth saving.”
Do you think Carson has a point? Is the media responsible for giving the Doctor a very soft narrative to make him look bad? Share your comments below in the comment section and let us know what you think.
