Now, before you go saying it's an honest gaffe (on the right) or that he's irrelevant and can't win (on the left), just stop for a second. About a fifth of one of our two major party's voters are telling pollsters they are going to go to the polls and vote for this guy. This guy who gets basic government and political facts wrong, but wants to be President. I'm starting to be puzzled on how a man who can practice surgery on a brain perfectly would be unable to learn really basic facts, but that's kind of the point. He's a great surgeon, he may even be a smart man, but he knows nothing about the job he's applying for. The Presidency is a job for people that know and understand government. The GOP base is trying to vote for anything but that.“But I’m particularly impressed with Thomas Jefferson, who seemed to have very deep insight into the way that people would react and tried to craft our Constitution in a way that it would control people’s national tendencies and control the natural growth of the government,” Carson said.The problem: Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. In fact, Carson noted Jefferson’s absence in his book, “A More Perfect Union,” writing that he was “missing in action” during the birth of the Constitution as he served abroad as ambassador to France.Carson's latest gaffe comes after a week in which he used an analogy likening Syrian refugees to dogs and had his foreign policy acumen questioned by advisers to his own campaign.
I have no use for the current GOP, except to say that I live in America, and they are a major political party here, one that controls most of our legislatures in the nation. I may find them to be a joke, and they are, but that joke is starting to be on us. We have to live with the results of elections where Ben Carson supporters vote. That is alarming to me.
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