Ben Carson blasts RNC, threatens to leave Republican Party

[AthenaAwakened]

Ben Carson on Friday blasted the Republican National Committee following a Washington Post report that nearly two-dozen establishment party figures were prepping for a potential brokered convention as Donald Trump continues to lead most polls.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus held a dinner in Washington on Monday, and, according to five people who spoke with the Post, the possibility of Trump heading into the Cleveland convention with a substantial number of delegates was a topic of discussion. Some attendees suggested the establishment lay the groundwork for a floor fight that could lead the party’s mainstream wing to unite behind an alternative. Carson rejected this approach.

“If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning,” Carson said in a statement released by his campaign.

Carson said he prays the Post’s report is incorrect and threatened to leave the GOP. “If it is correct, every voter who is standing for change must know they are being betrayed. I won’t stand for it,” said Carson, who added that if the plot is accurate, “I assure you, Donald Trump won’t be the only one leaving the party.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/ben-carson-rnc-washington-post-216674#ixzz3u3NhUVN8

 

[ZiprHead]

Tears of joy!

 

[maxparrish]

The GOP 'anti-establishment' wing of evangelicals, tea party types, populists, etc. are understandably sensitive to the slightest ripple from the RNC/Bush/McCain wing(s). Since Reagan they have always had to settle for second and third choice Charleys (Dole, Bush(s), and RINO McCain). They have put up with Boehner and McConnell' seething disdain. And they are angry over shabby treatment whenever they run their guy in the primaries (e.g. Mississippi).

But while I agree with almost all of their political leanings and share their cynicism, I always marvel how they are equally adept as their peers in shooting themselves in the foot. So a regularly scheduled dinner, where someone asks some questions of the Chair about 'what-if', becomes spun into a 'conspiracy'. Carson burns and starts firing warning shots (just like the other outside guy, Trump).

Someone sympathetic to the right needs to pull these guys into a room and lay on some reality wood on the divas. It's the long-standing rules.

It's up to them to earn 50.1 percent more of the delegates in the primaries; and if they don't, its up to them to convince a majority of the freed delegates that they ought to be "the one". If they fail to pass muster, it has nothing to do with "being treated fair".

The GOP managers can't make a brokered convention. IF all the election and voting processes still fail ONLY then do they get too choose. That too is "in the rules".

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I wonder what they served? Priebus previously served as a top director for Satan in Hell, so imagine entrails had to be somewhere on the menu.

 

[Jayjay]

I wonder what they served? Priebus previously served as a top director for Satan in Hell, so imagine entrails had to be somewhere on the menu.

It's stated quite clearly on the GOP platform: "Reforming Government to Serve the People"

Show

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

"I am going to pick up my derp and go home".

 

[untermensche]

The only thing any of this can mean is good news for the Democrat.

No matter which Republican wins they will have a divided party behind them.

That's what you get when you create a coalition of the most crazy.

 

[arkirk]

The problem with the Republican party...it is moribund and has little humanitarian values. That leaves it open to Trump and Carson's absolutely amoral values meal. The people that have shown no values except aggression against Obama and the middle class have a hard time talking about kindness and treating those in need with concern for their well being. It is just a plain snakepit and its lesser lights, their lower middle class religious gun loving folks can only discern who has the most money because they are all angry and all given to disassembling government...hence all the same. Trump leads because he is rich. Carson is another game altogether. He is just plain out of his element...a black man who works with his hands in the Republican party. That is plain nonsense.

 

[Keith&Co.]

“If it is correct, every voter who is standing for change must know they are being betrayed.

Wow.
You mean the rank and file GOP members might realize that the party leaders work for the benefit of the party leaders, not the party members? What a shocking insight.

 

[ideologyhunter]

I sense a major disconnect with the few Republicans I know well enough to share fairly unfettered conversations about the Republican field. They aren't Trump or Carson supporters -- and they talk as if that's something else, not their party. That's about HALF of their party. They tell me that their favorite candidate could beat Hillary handily -- and they'll name someone who's right now under 5%. I voted for McGovern in '72, so I was once in that boat.....

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Beat you. I voter for Nader. Twice.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Beat you. I voter for Nader. Twice.

Thank you for your support [/GW Bush].

 

[Colonel Sanders]

The problem with the Republican party...it is moribund and has little humanitarian values. That leaves it open to Trump and Carson's absolutely amoral values meal. The people that have shown no values except aggression against Obama and the middle class have a hard time talking about kindness and treating those in need with concern for their well being. It is just a plain snakepit and its lesser lights, their lower middle class religious gun loving folks can only discern who has the most money because they are all angry and all given to disassembling government...hence all the same.

Well said.

Here are the discernible policies of the GOP:

1. If Obama does/says it, it's bad.
2. We need the same enlightened economic policy that Reagan foisted on the nation and that George W. Bush put into action.
3. Foreign policy = military action against Name Your Country
4. Guns = good
5. And of course, Jesus.

But really, #'s 2-5 are subsets of #1 because Obama is a communist, a total pussy, wants to take away our guns, and is an atheist Muslim.

In the upcoming campaign, it's difficult to see how those policies will need to change just because it's Hillary Clinton.

"Hillary Clinton? BAD. Me not Hillary Clinton! Gooooood."

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

The GOP 'anti-establishment' wing of evangelicals, tea party types, populists, etc. are understandably sensitive to the slightest ripple from the RNC/Bush/McCain wing(s). Since Reagan they have always had to settle for second and third choice Charleys (Dole, Bush(s), and RINO McCain). They have put up with Boehner and McConnell' seething disdain. And they are angry over shabby treatment whenever they run their guy in the primaries (e.g. Mississippi).

But while I agree with almost all of their political leanings and share their cynicism, I always marvel how they are equally adept as their peers in shooting themselves in the foot. So a regularly scheduled dinner, where someone asks some questions of the Chair about 'what-if', becomes spun into a 'conspiracy'. Carson burns and starts firing warning shots (just like the other outside guy, Trump).

Someone sympathetic to the right needs to pull these guys into a room and lay on some reality wood on the divas. It's the long-standing rules.

It's up to them to earn 50.1 percent more of the delegates in the primaries; and if they don't, its up to them to convince a majority of the freed delegates that they ought to be "the one". If they fail to pass muster, it has nothing to do with "being treated fair".

The GOP managers can't make a brokered convention. IF all the election and voting processes still fail ONLY then do they get too choose. That too is "in the rules".

The rules... So funny.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

This is pretty much the only thing that Ben Carson has said bearing any relation to reality.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

This is pretty much the only thing that Ben Carson has said bearing any relation to reality.

If you mean that he spoke cogently, then yes. Politics, on the other hand, is more like a soap opera, and Ben has been doing a great job here.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

This is pretty much the only thing that Ben Carson has said bearing any relation to reality.

If you mean that he spoke cogently, then yes. Politics, on the other hand, is more like a soap opera, and Ben has been doing a great job here.

Well, it didn't involve invisible sky daddies this time, but it did involve an actual meeting that took place. So we should give him some credit.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Beat you. I voter for Nader. Twice.

Thank you for your support [/GW Bush].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE

Madeline Albright and Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes. Were 500,000 dead Iraqi children really worth it?! Not to me! And frantic efforts to stop the horrors with Clinton or Gore failed to move them much.

And we call VP Cheney a bastard? And I don't remember Hilary speaking out eirther during the era Bill Clinton let this happen. I will vote Sanders. All these years later, I am still angry as all hell over this mass murder.

Is it any wonder so many Moslems hate our guts?

 

[untermensche]

Is it any wonder so many Moslems hate our guts?

If we include Britain and the US as a team, then the torture and killing of Muslims goes back to 1917.

And of course it is all for oil.

The support of the fundamentalist Saudi dictatorship. Fundamentalism for the people that is, not the dictators.

The destruction of the Iranian secular democracy.

The Sanctions on Iraq that you mention.

The invasion of Iraq and decade long occupation.

What is a wonder is that more Moslems don't hate our guts.

 

[Jayjay]

Is it any wonder so many Moslems hate our guts?

If we include Britain and the US as a team, then the torture and killing of Muslims goes back to 1917.

And of course it is all for oil.

The support of the fundamentalist Saudi dictatorship. Fundamentalism for the people that is, not the dictators.

The destruction of the Iranian secular democracy.

The Sanctions on Iraq that you mention.

The invasion of Iraq and decade long occupation.

What is a wonder is that more Moslems don't hate our guts.

Get your facts straight. The occupation was only eight years long.