Cash Is Piling Up for Ben Carson, With a Tea Party Tilt

[brooklynite]

As a political outsider, Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, is given only a slight chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination.

But people who want him to run for president have already donated $12 million to the cause. A look at whom those donors also backed suggests that his support isn’t relegated to the fringe of the Republican Party, although the donors have given more to Tea Party and insurgent Republican groups than to party committees.

The amount of money raised so far is enough to show that there is interest in a candidacy by Mr. Carson, a frequent Fox News commentator with a biography that any candidate would envy. Raised by a single mother, he graduated from Yale and rose to prominence as a surgeon at Johns Hopkins. His speech to the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast gained him many fans among critics of President Obama.

Presuming that most of the people who donated to his committee would also support a presidential campaign with their money, a campaign by Mr. Carson would be able to raise enough money to contest one or more of the early Republican primaries or caucuses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/upshot/cash-is-piling-up-for-ben-carson-with-a-tea-party-tilt.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0

[TerrapinFlyer]

1. The GOP will require a stretch limo clown car... keep donating to these ass clowns repugs!

Ben Carson has ZERO chance of being elected President of the United States.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. I almost feel obligated to donate to Carson. Considering all the entertainment he will provide.

I feel I would be like someone who enjoys a street musician and then refuses to throw a buck in the hat.

[n2doc]

2. It is amazing the money people will waste

Carson has no chance at either Prez or VP. None whatsoever. So the 12 million is completely down the drain. He's not even in CONgress, so he can't push some sort of corrupt legislation either.

[hifiguy]

11. No one ever said the teatalitarians

and other assorted full-mooners were the brightest bulbs on the marquee.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. He won't have to do a damn thing

It's all a ruse. He'll "manage" his "Super PAC" after he drops out and can keep all the money in it to do what he wants with it. It's all a scam. They need to torpedo those PACs.

[KG]

4. Ben Carson, like most tea party faves, is what an idiot thinks a smart guy sounds like

[Johonny]

13. Yeah

I can never tell if Carson has lost his mind or just playing the suckers for money. He says some truly stupid things and his proof is always "But I'm a Doctor so I know." As if arguments based only on authority are convincing.

[Politicalboi]

5. His upbringing was close to Obama's

Single mother, made it on his own to college. But only this guy is an asshole.

[mstinamotorcity2]

6. We know Mr. Carson well here in Detroit.

He is not fooling anyone except his donors. the republican party is ridiculously ignorant enough to convince its donors that showing us a black face will make black people vote for him. Nope they got it wrong. But who am I to tell them that they are swimming with sharks that eat their own. They still believe that Black Americans voted for the President just because he was Black. Like we never had a chance to vote for a Black President before. Silly People!!!

[ChosenUnWisely]

7. How to get rich in America...Step One Spew Hate, Fear and Lies on all the media

Step 2 Once you have followers and you will, run for office or at least make a good show of it

Step 3 Followers who now are loyal followers just give you money.

Step 4 Change your mind and keep money, repeat every 2-4 years if you become broke or just feel like fleecing your followers.

[hifiguy]

12. Didn't Princess Sparklemoose write that book?

[dembotoz]

8. would love to see the republobigots around here try to vote for a black guy

would have to install cpr stations by all the voting booths

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Wonder how many donors know he can keep all that money?

As Colbert pointed out so cleverly in his show, PAC funds can legally be used for almost anything, and do not have to be reported expenditures.
Palin was smart enough to know that, with her Sarah Pact pretend bus trip.

So that's the payoff for all these not lightweight contenders.

[AlinPA]

15. He can buy some nice property on the beach for that much money.

[FSogol]

10. Bring it on. More money for clowns is less $$$ for more realistic candidates.

Carson is his own worst enemy. He can't stop himself from saying stupid shit.

[pampango]

16. More power to him. Drag your party to the right as far and as fast as you can Dr. Carson.

We want your primaries and debates to be as entertaining as possible.