Dr. Ben Carson is supposed to be campaigning in New Hampshire right now, at least according to people who presume Dr. Ben Carson is running for president. Dr. Ben Carson is not. He flew out from Iowa unannounced declaring that he had run all out of clean clothes and needed to travel back to Florida to do his laundry; two days later, he is still there, firing staff and, more importantly, feeling very damn hurt about how this has all worked out.
“Dr. Carson feels absolutely robbed, violated," said Armstrong Williams, a Carson confidant, in a phone interview. "He realizes, the Democrats are not his enemies trying to malign him. It’s people who smile in his face, shake his hand, go out to dinner with him — and yet, they’re trying to destroy him behind his back.”
That's right. Dr. Ben Carson has only now, at this late date, come to the realization that politics is full to the brim with assholes who would shank him through the belt for just one more delegate in Iowa. Mind you, this is a fellow who came into politics as a dominant, can-do-no-wrong surgeon, and who was championed by staff and supporters as a dominant, can-do-no-wrong potential leader, and it wasn't until we got down to the actual voting part that, apparently, Ben Carson figured out that he had enrolled himself in one of the dirtiest, lyingist, shallow, corrupt, and insincere professions the world has given birth to. For a man who keeps a painting of himself enjoying a selfie-moment with Jesus Himself, that had to have been a shock.
And hell hath no fury like a brain surgeon scorned.
But the Cruz episode has given Carson renewed purpose, and he now looks determined to spend whatever time he has left in the campaign making the Texan pay.
Yes, please. Finally, a cause worth donating to.
Carson consiglieri Armstrong Williams says Carson is going to go after Cruz for Cruz's behavior in Iowa during this Saturday's debate. Can Carson do it? Does an angry Ben Carson look any different from the current Ben Carson? Let's watch.