The Special "Carson is a Fucking Lunatic" Thread

[SteelCurtain]

I'd like to see that quote sourced. Not that I'd put it past him, it just looks too ridiculous to be real.

The West Point thing is such a bullshit issue. As an academy grad (USNA) and someone who was recruited to a service academy, this sounds plausible. I met with Commanders and even a retired Rear Admiral who promised me admission. They all, to a man, pumped up the idea that I wouldn't have to pay a dime for college. Once I accepted I told everyone at school that I got a full ride scholarship to the Naval Academy. I had no clue why that statement made no sense until I actually got there.

It makes sense that he thought he was being promised a scholarship to USMA. He was in ROTC, a top performer, smart (on some topics), and would have been in contact with military officers regularly.

[Minimalist]

[Thumpalumpacus]

As a veteran, it offends me that he wants to glom onto service coattails.

It's nice that you were deemed smart enough to attend USMA. If you didn't feel like doing just that, why are you plumping the offer?

If you didn't wear the uniform, don't wear the pride.

[Jenny A]

[Jackalope]

I'd like to see that quote sourced.

Which ridiculous quote would you like sourced?

[SteelCurtain]

Again, one doesn't have to apply to be offered or promised an appointment to a service academy.

I hadn't even considered the Naval Academy when a Blue and Gold Officer approached me. I was recruited, and told I would get an appointment having never even seen an application, much less filled out or submitted one.

There are no such things as scholarships to service academies. Its free. When you are being recruited or are applying, your blue and gold officer speaks in language that any 17 year old understands. They use terms like 'guaranteed scholarships' and 'full ride.'

You actually get paid a small allowance because you cannot have a job while you're attending. The repayment is 5 years of contracted service after graduating.

This is a story that is a guy 20 years ago making an unresearched statement and Politico made a mountain out of a mole hill.

My concern is that bogus stories like this one are going to take away from the actual things that make this man woefully unqualified for office and call into question his integrity.

[SteelCurtain]

As a veteran, it offends me that he wants to glom onto service coattails.

It's nice that you were deemed smart enough to attend USMA. If you didn't feel like doing just that, why are you plumping the offer?

If you didn't wear the uniform, don't wear the pride.

That would be a story line I could get behind.

[Minimalist]

This is a story that is a guy 20 years ago making an unresearched statement and Politico made a mountain out of a mole hill.

Politico did not tell him to put it in his book.  All they did was check it out and find him lying. 

It really doesn't matter to me - there is no republicunt alive that I would consider voting for - but you've got to love the conservatard shits who think this guy is so fucking honest and real.

He's no better than Trump.

[Reforged]

 “You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.”
Ben Carson, a vote against slavery.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Again, one doesn't have to apply to be offered or promised an appointment to a service academy.

I hadn't even considered the Naval Academy when a Blue and Gold Officer approached me. I was recruited, and told I would get an appointment having never even seen an application, much less filled out or submitted one.

There are no such things as scholarships to service academies. Its free. When you are being recruited or are applying, your blue and gold officer speaks in language that any 17 year old understands. They use terms like 'guaranteed scholarships' and 'full ride.'

You actually get paid a small allowance because you cannot have a job while you're attending. The repayment is 5 years of contracted service after graduating.

This is a story that is a guy 20 years ago making an unresearched statement and Politico made a mountain out of a mole hill.

My concern is that bogus stories like this one are going to take away from the actual things that make this man woefully unqualified for office and call into question his integrity.

And yet Westmoreland wasn't in Detroit in May. Doesn't that disconnection speak to the integrity of the claimant?