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And you think you can hold a candle to him intellect wise? If he wasn't a conservative, all your leftist pals would be on you tooth and claw?

OMG. The humiliation never relents. The brain surgeon without a brain.

But it was smart politics. The rationale for Carson's candidacy is based largely on biography and character. Take those away and what's left?

Not too much, unfortunately. Oh sure, grading on a human level, there's still a great deal to admire in Carson. But we're talking presidential politics, not lifetime achievement awards.

Preparation matters.

In Miami, he was asked about the so-called wet-foot, dry-foot immigration policy for Cuban refugees. "You're going to have to explain to me exactly what you mean by that," he replied.

In a GOP debate, he said that the Chinese were involved in the Syrian civil war, alongside the Russians and the Iranians. His campaign had to awkwardly walk back the claim.

The New York Times even found two of his advisors to state on the record that Carson was struggling to get up to speed on foreign policy.

White evangelicals are Trump’s most ardent supporters. A January Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 66 percent of white evangelicals had a favorable view of Trump, the only religious constituency boasting a majority with a positive impression of him. White evangelicals also continue to be Obama’s most predictable opponents; while that poll found that at least 50 percent of other religious demographics had a favorable view of Obama, only 31 percent of white evangelicals did.

Now religious-right figures are rising to Trump’s defense in the battle over whether Obama tapped his phones. For instance, Charisma magazine, a leading source for charismatic and Pentecostal writings, is credulously citing Breitbart as proof of the need for a congressional investigation of Trump’s claim that Obama ordered the wiretap. Charisma has long been a cheerleader for Trump; during the campaign, it promoted widely disseminated comparisons of Trump to the Persian King Cyrus, referred to in the Book of Isaiah as God’s “anointed” one.

...Meanwhile, the religious right’s punditry are steeling themselves — and the movement’s loyal foot soldiers — for an epic good vs. evil battle in defense of Trump, one that could last years.

The popular evangelist Lou Engle claims that there has been “an unprecedented global summons of witchcraft to curse President Trump, his Cabinet and all of those aligned with a biblical worldview.” As a result, he writes in a post urging his followers to fast this week to commemorate the Jewish holiday of Purim, “only the church has the answer to this unprecedented manifestation of witchcraft.”

Unfortunately it takes wisdom and humility to see real merit.

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 52m52 minutes ago
There is an incredible spirit of optimism sweeping the country right now—we're bringing back the JOBS!

We'll see. I don't think he will last four years. But how that might end, if it does, is quite unclear and fraught with chaos however it happens.

And he's playing the media like a $2 fiddle...He is pushing the issue on purpose to have Congress end the Russian bullshit once and for all. Fighting fake news with fake news.

But if you managed to comprehend that notion, you might actually be able to comprehend what else I wrote in that post.

blatham wrote:

But if you managed to comprehend that notion, you might actually be able to comprehend what else I wrote in that post.

Good grief. Ease up on the snotty attitude there. Remember Blatham, you're a FAKE intellectual.