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    gramercypoliceBrendan O'Connor
    2/23/16 10:06pm

    All political campaigns — especially those in the nominating season — exist solely to take your money and put it into the pockets of the campaign’s senior staff. Yes, including that one special candidate you think is better than all the others and who couldn’t possibly be taking you for a rube when you donate money, no matter how rich or poor you are.

    It is amazing how many and how easily people can be convinced that candidates running for the right to run for office are doing it because they believe in something other than the money. They don’t. And their staffs definitely don’t. It is how they fund their jobs, just like a televangelist. In fact, I’m not sure that the best movie ever made about a political campaign isn’t actually Steve Martin’s Leap of Faith. Except for the part with the happy ending.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Bokegramercypolice
      2/23/16 10:11pm

      Except for Saint Bernard. All that crazy lucre he’s raising is going straight to the Sandernista army and they, in turn, are redistributing it to the most needy among us: the local pizzerias.

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      gramercypolice╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      2/23/16 10:13pm

      I’m not picking on him. He’s no better and no worse than any of the others.

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    jrfunkensteinBrendan O'Connor
    2/24/16 3:46am

    Mental Ben has been doggedly consistent in having to be repeatedly roused from his functional hibernation to clarify why his campaign is sucking so badly, and never fails to blame everyone but himself for having an absolutely entropy worthy race towards irrelevance.

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      Free Market Party Companyjrfunkenstein
      2/24/16 12:07pm

      Starred for “Mental Ben”. This should really be a thing.

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      jrfunkensteinFree Market Party Company
      2/24/16 1:14pm

      Can’t take the credit; saw it somewhere months ago and we’ve been inseparable ever since.

      Feel free to spread the love.

      GIF
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    Seneca the Younger(er)Brendan O'Connor
    2/23/16 9:58pm

    No mention of how he would select his cabinet and White House staffers with better judgement, should he be elected. Does he imagine the casual ignorance defense would work as well in the Oval Office as he thinks it does on the campaign trail?

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      CharitybSeneca the Younger(er)
      2/23/16 11:52pm

      Carson seems to have the same relationship with his campaign as Emperor Norton I had with the United States and Mexico. He doesn’t really have any real supervisory authority or oversight over anything, and of course no one involves him in discussions where decisions are made.

      But he is quirky and fun to have around and a cool mascot for the system as a whole. So when his campaign staffers waste his money, he is as powerless to do anything about them as you are. They may be his campaign staffers but that doesn’t mean that they are his employees or anything...

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      jrfunkensteinSeneca the Younger(er)
      2/24/16 3:49am

      He can’t hear anyone right now; it’s ‘look at my hands’ time.

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    Cherith CutestoryBrendan O'Connor
    2/23/16 9:41pm

    Around :08 is the most open I’ve ever seen his eyes.

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      ExPatsDeserveTheCountryTheyBlightCherith Cutestory
      2/23/16 9:52pm

      “Ben Carson Wakes Up, Is Told He Is Candidate”..........

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      Deadly the EternalCherith Cutestory
      2/23/16 11:27pm
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    reggieinatlBrendan O'Connor
    2/23/16 9:44pm

    Sucks for Carson. He blinked once and missed the whole thing.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeBrendan O'Connor
      2/23/16 10:02pm

      Look, these clowns are amateurs, real fucking amateur clowns. Are any of them serious? Not one of them. If you want a real clown, a serious clown, one that studied Jerry Lewis like he was Derrida (but not in a Frenchie mime way, no, in the serious, robust absurdity and physicality of Jerry Lewis that is as American as 3lb breakfast hamburgers), then you gotta vote for my man, Donald Trump. He’s the real deal. The best clown in the whole fucking rodeo. Everyone else can go back to clown school, the Donald is ready to teach the class.

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        SktroopBrendan O'Connor
        2/24/16 6:38am

        So, is this Ben’s way of saying “It’s not MY fault I’m doing so badly in the primaries. It was THOSE guys! I’d be the front runner if it wasn’t for them!”.

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          VanNostrandBrendan O'Connor
          2/23/16 10:27pm

          Someone tell him about the 9-9-9 deal

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            Archer>PicardBrendan O'Connor
            2/23/16 9:44pm

            So when does the GOP roll out their actual Presidential candidates? This has all been some sick joke, right?

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              Daniel PlainviewBrendan O'Connor
              2/23/16 10:06pm

              Hold on, this is a brilliant wealth redistribution plan. If asshole billionaires are going to continue donating billions to political campaigns (and only political campaigns), we should have the destitute start marketing firms and then one of us can say some dumb shit and seek the republican nomination.

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