Now, more than ever, we need Michael Jackson's song about the effin' rat as they bail Good Ship Ben.

[Miles Archer]

The presidential bid of Ben Carson, a tea party star who has catapulted into the top tier of Republican contenders, has been rocked by turmoil with the departures of four senior campaign officials and widespread disarray among his allied super PACs.

Carson’s associates described a political network in tumult in interviews Friday, saying the retired neurosurgeon’s campaign chairman, national finance chairman, deputy campaign manager and general counsel have all resigned since Carson formally launched his bid last month in Detroit. They have not been replaced, campaign officials said.

The moves gutted the core of Carson’s apparatus and left the 63-year-old first-time candidate with only a handful of experienced aides at his side as he navigates the fluid, crowded and high-stakes contest for the Republican nomination.

Carson is a hot commodity on the right-wing speaking circuit and has fast become a leading candidate, winning straw votes at conservative gatherings and rising in public polls.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ben-carsons-campaign-faces-turmoil-after-staff-exits-and-super-pac-chaos/2015/06/05/ce08f9b2-0ba8-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-politics

[maindawg]

1. With literally 16 candidates running around

I think I can see the strategy working for the GOP. There are so many that two or three of them are making news every day. With no real boundaries as far as moral limitation any kind of exposure is acceptable. They all basically work for the same two men Charles and David. So they are all coordinated. It does not matter that Ben Carson has no real campaign team. Charles and David will orchestrate his campaign. They have people. They have an organization that employs hundreds of campaign workers.
Bens people probably quit because they were being led around by the nose by these empty suited sycophants. Being ordered to do things they were not comfortable doing.
They will use this gang of candidates to confuse and obfuscate the electorate. They will distort and spread rumors and outright lies through our mass media. So that people will believe things that are not only false but wildly false. They will push as hard as they can these efforts to exert influence upon our mostly is informed electorate. They will do everything they can to distract us from reality. Ben Carson is just another useful idiot.
They are protecting Jeb, trying to make him look like the adult in the room. He is their man. Only he has so many warts he is like the emperor with no clothes. He is hideous. He thinks we will not see his warts and his horns. But he has been revealed and the Kochs are wasting 900 million dollars. People hate the Kochs. Everything they touch turns to shit.In 2014 every one of their candidates lost. The Kochs are actually motivating the left the moderates and even the rebellious conservatives who dont like crazy politicians any more than we do around here.