Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

And nobody will give a shit.

 

Trump is playing the birther card with Ted Cruz:

Trump says Cruz’s Canadian birth could be ‘very precarious’ for GOP

 

What does Ben Carson have to say about this?

 

Not true at all.

At least the Post headline more fair than most.

Donald Trump said in an interview that rival Ted Cruz’s Canadian birthplace was a “very precarious” issue that could make the senator from Texas vulnerable if he became the Republican presidential nominee.

“Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’ That’d be a big problem,” Trump said when asked about the topic. “It’d be a very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head.”

The guy does multiple rallies every week. He has not mentioned this topic once in a rally.

This is a media driven story, not a Trump driven story.

 

Also, over the holiday break I apparently missed that Rubio's brother-in-law was a front man for a cocaine kingpin.

How Marco Rubio helped his ex-con relative get a real estate license


When Marco Rubio was majority whip of the Florida House of Representatives, he used his official position to urge state regulators to grant a real estate license to his brother-in-law, a convicted cocaine trafficker who had been released from prison 20 months earlier, according to records obtained by The Washington Post.

In July 2002, Rubio sent a letter on his official statehouse stationery to the Florida Division of Real Estate, recommending Orlando Cicilia “for licensure without reservation.” The letter, obtained by The Washington Post under the Florida Public Records Act, offers a glimpse of Rubio using his growing political power to assist his troubled brother-in-law and provides new insight into how the young lawmaker intertwined his personal and political lives.

 

OTOH, Trump could answer the question differently.

 

Amazingly, this only makes him the third or fourth sketchiest candidate in the field.

 

Why?

This is how he answered it in September, as reported by ABC News:

“I hear it was checked out by every attorney and every which way and I understand Ted is in fine shape,” Trump told ABC News just before speaking at a Capitol Hill rally blasting the Iran nuclear deal.

Have Dems foresworn any attempt to make an issue of this if Trump is the nominee? If they have, I haven't heard about it. Various people raised the issue regarding John McCain, so i imagine Cruz would face it to. Is Trump wrong in how he responded?

And, if it's not an issue at all, why did Trump keep getting asked about it yesterday? (In addition to the Post, Morning Joe asked him the same question.)

I don't think it's an issue, but the press seems to think it is.

 

This isn't the first time Trump has brought it up: Donald Trump Goes Birther on Canadian-Born Ted Cruz

Sure, the tone is always, "I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin' ", but he doesn't need any prodding. He'd just STFU otherwise.

 

He pointedly said, "PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT!" He also slyly said he wasn't so sure people want a nominee who would be tied up in citizenship court while he's supposed to be campaigning.

I'm sure it was all innocent, misunderstood banter, though.

 

Trump got a free shot at Cruz and took it. Big deal.

Multiple news outlets gave him this free shot on the same day. Is that coordinated by Trump?

If the media wants to make an issue of it, what's he supposed to do, pull a Bernie Sanders and say it's not relevant? Why?

Why wouldn't he play into it? Trump is trying to win.

 

People are talking about it. People in the media! He's already been asked the same thing earlier in the day.

The media wants a Trump/Cruz brawl, so they keep asking each of them stupid questions, hoping to get something out of one of them.

Trump basically repeats the question back to them, and they turn it into news.