10
Reasons Why Ben Carson Is The Biggest Loon In The GOP Clown Car
By Ann Werner
You’ve
got to hand it to the modern GOP. It has a talent for attracting the most
insane, out-of-touch, lunatic fringe elements of our society.
Take,
for instance, the mild-mannered, soft-spoken, former neurosurgeon turned
presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson. When you look up lunacy in the
dictionary, his picture is the description.
There’s
good reason for that.
1.
With the big GOP upset over slavery, the Japanese internment camps of WWII and
the genocide of the Native American population being covered in American history, the good doctor took
it a step further:
“I think most people, when they finish that course, they’d be ready to go sign up for ISIS.”
We’re good people! Yes! We are and
always have been!
2.
His famous remark about Obamacare:
“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.”
3.
In an interview with Evan Gahr of the Daily Beast, Carson also claimed that
Obamacare is worse than 9/11. When asked how he came to that conclusion, he
answered:
“Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United States of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. … You have to take a long-term look at the ascent of something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America. You have to be someone who reads. Who is well-read. I want you to go back tonight. I want you to pull out what Saul Alinsky says about health care under the control of the government.”
Because
it’s so much better when you have nowhere to turn for health care; and it’s so
much better when an illness strips you of all you have, including your home,
because you can’t pay the hospital bill for something that – had you been
treated early – would never have turned into a catastrophic event. Now THAT, my
friends, is what Republicans call freedom!
4.
On turning gay in prison and whether being gay is a choice:
When
asked by Chris Cuomo if being gay is a choice, he answered, “Absolutely.
Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight, and when
they come out, they’re gay. So, did something happen while they were in there?
Ask yourself that question.”
He
had to walk that one back after the backlash nearly knocked him
over. But he still hates gays (even though he tries to make it sound like he
doesn’t and is just being a good Christian when he’s actually being homophobic)
and refuses to admit that being gay isn’t a choice. Dr. Carson, here’s a
newsflash: It’s just the way some people are wired, and there is absolutely
nothing “abnormal” about it.
5.
In his book, America the
Beautiful, Carson
explains how gay marriage caused thefall of the Roman Empire.
“As a Bible-believing Christian, you might imagine that I would not be a proponent of gay marriage. I believe God loves homosexuals as much as he loves everyone, but if we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”[emphasis added]
And
here I thought the reason for the fall of Rome was because it had overextended
itself by being an overreaching imperial power that tried to run the entire
then-known world. Silly me! It was all the fault of the gays.
6.
On a Muslim being
president:
“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.”
Seems
he forgot all about that whole separation of church and state thing in the
Constitution, not to mention branding all Muslims – even those who have
served and died in our military – as being untrustworthy. I wonder how he would
have felt back in the day when everyone was so worried about JFK being a
Catholic. I still recall the “Kennedy quarters.”
7.
Comparing the United States to Nazi Germany, which seems to be a favorite
pastime among certain members of the Republican Party, in an interview with
Breitbart, he said:
“I mean, (America) is very much like Nazi Germany. And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.”
Apparently,
the irony that he is stating what he believes all the time is lost on him.
8.
Comparing gay marriage (this guy really has it in for gay people) to bestiality and pedophilia:
“Marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality — it doesn’t matter what they are, they don’t get to change the definition.”
Dr.
Carson, riddle me this: What does having sex with a goat or molesting a child
have to do with gay marriage?
9.
Advocating arming kindergarten teachers:
“If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere. I would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon,” said Carson, who is the father of three grown sons. “If the teacher was trained in the use of that weapon and had access to it, I would be much more comfortable if they had one than if they didn’t.”
Because
you know, a good guy with a gun is the remedy for a bad guy with a gun.
10.
And on the subject of the Umpqua shooting, he posted on Facebook:
“I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.”
Sounds
an awful lot like that paragon of American patriotism, Joe the Plumber, when he said regarding
the Santa Barbara mass shooting: “As harsh as this sounds—your dead kids don’t
trump my Constitutional rights.”
It’s
still early in the campaign and Dr. Carson is rising in the polls, so there are
sure to be more nuggets of Carson “wisdom” forthcoming.
Ann Werner is a blogger and the author of CRAZY and Dreams and Nightmares. You can view her work at AnnWerner.info