does anyone here actually know a Carson supporter?

[virtualobserver]

please, no speculation about what you imagine them to be like, or snark, or "I saw a bumper sticker" with a physical description, or even an article quoting someone.

Does anyone actually know someone?

What are they like?

[edgineered]

1. Every day at work.

This is the same one who when discussing healthcare thought that his friends wife should do what other women do with a yellow toenail - put polish on it. She doesn't need healthcare.

[virtualobserver]

4. what is Carson's appeal for him?

[edgineered]

15. I absolutely refuse to speak of any issues with him anymore.

On his desk in early September he had a letter from the Carson campaign. After lunch I'll look to see if it's still around; it had ten or twelve of Carson's positions on it, each of only a single sentence.

On second thought, I'll bring up Carson this afternoon and come back here tonight. You could not possibly understand how futile it is to discuss anything with him. Sometimes I think I should write things down for the comedic value, but then again choosing to watch Faux would do the same.

[virtualobserver]

27. I might be able to understand the futility.....I think that I may have met his clone.

[RKP5637]

55. His campaign director was on TV today. OMG, he is a clone. Maybe we've had an

invasion of the body snatchers and don't know it yet. I just can't imagine people so gullible, naive and stupid as to support him. It's chilling!

[edgineered]

84. Treading carefully this afternoon so as not to engage in conversation,

I stated I don't understand how Carson could be beating Trump in the polls. Nothing else was said. The reply boiled down to this:

Carson is super smart, you can tell because he takes the time to really think about what he wants to say. As a matter of fact he had the highest SAT score ever recorded.

The media is making him look very good by bringing up how he can be aggressive; it wasn't that he was threatening someone he didn't know - it was family.

Being offered a free scholarship by a General proves him qualified for CinC.

**** Like I stated above, it is pointless to engage in ANY discussion. (btw - couldn't find the letter from Carson campaign)

[virtualobserver]

86. This campaign just keeps getting weirder.....

I can see why you would avoid conversation with that guy at all costs.

[edgineered]

88. Proof once again that sometimes you find out more by not asking.

Asking why he supported Carson would be asking for talking points or made him defensive. Instead the (un)truth just gushed out!

[edgineered]

91. His mail yesterday contained a shiny Carson bumper sticker!

That explains why I couldn't find the letter - he must have filled in the blanks, the amount, and remitted it. Today he commented that he feels like putting it over top of the next Bernie sticker he sees. Brain surgeons, they're all alike.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. One, vaguely.

Guy who is doing marketing for my old boss. He's white, 21, calls himself a socially conservative libertarian. He's anti-gay marriage, calls Carson 'his guy'. I've only run into him a couple of times, so I don't know much more about his views than that.

[virtualobserver]

6. anti-gay marriage....do you know him well enough to tell if he is hyper-religious?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

17. Don't know him that well.

Only spoken to him maybe 3 times so far - I did sound him out on politics when I first met him, because I figured as a young white guy he might be open to Bernie, but no, he turned out to be at the other end of the political spectrum, the libertarian 'I got mine, tough nuts for the rest of you' as opposed to the socialist 'we all need to help each other'.

[riderinthestorm]

3. Unfortunately I do. She's an old acquaintance from high school

and we're Facebook friends now.

She's a special Ed teacher. Lives and teaches in a very affluent community. Very religious even as she's divorced. Has one son. She owns horses which is why we've re-connected and also means she's a fairly outdoorsy person.

She thinks Carson is intelligent, calm and sensible.

She's not rabid about him. Posts the occasional quote from Carson with a brief comment - "he's the most sensible of them all" kind of generic statement.

I'm not sure our FB "friendship" would survive a face to face encounter at the moment.

[HassleCat]

5. For the moment

The people who live next door are supporting Carson right now. They stay glued to Fox News, so I'm guessing their support will shift when Fox News tells them to shift it, but they want Carson right now. They're nice people, but they believe the usual stuff. Obama is a secret Muslim, and he was born in Kenya. Hilary is a lesbian who had Vince Foster killed to silence him. She tells me she's reading a wonderful book called "Killing Reagan" and it tells the heroic tale of how he expelled commies from Hollywood when he was SAG president. They're nice, friendly people, but they believe crazy stuff.

[virtualobserver]

11. Wow....even Vince Foster....

They are really out there......

[Takket]

7. yeah....

I'm a Red sox fan.... and I post on their message board. There is a Carson supporter there that is a kook named elysse2 that started a thread about Carson and almost 900 posts later it is a cluster ****. Basically this guy just goes on and on about god and Carson's moral character blah blah blah. I don't even bother arguing with him but my fellow liberals over there do a great job. More people jumped in and the argument spread in typical internet to fashion to Benghazi, Hillary, Obama, etc etc.

This same poster said in 2013 that he wouldn't trade shane victorino for Mike Trout, so that's how much his opinion was worth to me to begin with.

http://www.forums.mlb.com/discussions/Boston_Red_Sox/General/Opinion_Poll_of_Ben_Carson/ml-redsox/286027.1?nav=messages

Good luck reading that. kudos to anyone that makes it to post 50 without being sick

[virtualobserver]

14. after seeing the pictures of Carson's house, I can see why the God obsessed...

are drawn to him. This is on Red Sox board.....scary.

[KatyMan]

26. "he wouldn't trade shane victorino for Mike Trout"

Obviously not an intelligent or at least thinking person. Good grief, I'd trade most of a starting 9 for Trout no matter who the team was (except maybe the Royals).

[Le Taz Hot]

8. Yes, two of my cousins

whom I love very much but am completely dumbfounded as to why they support him.

[virtualobserver]

18. That is rough.....I had to excommunicate two of my cousins over the Obama-Antichrist BS......

that they were spewing in 2008.

[Jokerman]

9. A Facebook "friend" is a Carson fan.

She's a former schoolmate who, by my estimate, will follow anyone who invokes god or jesus often enough.

I tolerated her junk for quite some time but when she began posting garbage about what a wonderful person Ben Carson is, I dropped her from my feed.

[Renew Deal]

10. I don't, but I saw at least 1 bumper sticker a couple months ago.

[pintobean]

12. I love Carson

He's coming back to TV in January.

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[BlueJazz]

82. I watched it. Ahh... Fond memories

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. I know one who's been waivering between Carson and Trump.

She's a good person, but a bit naïve about a lot of things.

Funny thing was she actually supported Obama in the past two elections. Not sure exactly what caused her to turn.

[virtualobserver]

33. She is the type of voter that I am most worried about......

[Cobalt Indigo]

16. A girl I grew up with

I've known her since I was 10, and she grew up to be an ultra conservative Faux News devotee. Saw her say flat out she supported Ben Carson on Facebook. But she's been pretty quiet about it the last couple of weeks since his more "questionable" comments made the news.

[Takket]

21. she's probably waiting instructions from "Headquarters" (FoxNews) on what she is supposed to think

next

[Throd]

19. Yes. He has Carson signs on his lawn.

He's a nice guy.

[patricia92243]

22. Unfortunately, my husband. Religion tops everything. Last time he voted for Romney

He thinks Obama is a Muslim, so Romney, even though a Morman, was a better choice.

I don't know if Carson can be proved a lier if he would change to another candidate.

The older he get, the more Fox news, etc. influence his thinking.

[virtualobserver]

37. Wow.....you could probably give us more insight than anyone....

[SheilaT]

38. Oh, my dear lord.

I'm not sure I would stay with a spouse who believed like that. You are a far more patient woman than I.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

50. I don't think I could either.

My husband and I are just about the same when it comes to politics although I'm a registered Democrat and he prefers to not be registered with any party.

[SheilaT]

67. I'm divorced, but among the good qualities my ex had

was that we were very much on the same page politically. I do miss being able to talk to him about all the things we used to discuss. Alas, he left me after meeting someone he decided he'd rather be with, and we don't communicate much.

[bowens43]

23. I don't know one but I have seen a couple of bumper stickers endorsing him.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

24. My white tea bag uncle

But I do not discuss politics with him. He showed up at my parents house about a year ago and said Obama was a communist and not born in this country, so I have zero interest in engaging him. My parents are unabashed Democrats so either he is fucking clueless enough about politics that he thought this would have traction with them, or he was trolling them. He also went to DC to participate in one of Larry Klaymen's rallies.

He had a Carson sticker on his car, though my brother noticed it was missing this weekend and wondered if he caved.

[tammywammy]

25. I don't talk politics with my parents often

But a month or so ago my mom told me she liked Carson. I don't know if that's changed now, since we don't really talk about politics. She also thinks Trump is an idiot. I would think her stance on Carson has changed since the latest revelations that he lied came out. I wouldn't even guess who she supports now.

She did say at the time she wants all big money out of politics and I told her to vote for Bernie then. She didn't agree. LOL.

[CatWoman]

28. these nuts here

https://www.facebook.com/TheCJPearson/photos/a.834437446591740.1073741828.834027803299371/929159553786195/?type=3&comment_id=929475853754565&notif_t=like

[JackInGreen]

31. My gods

There's enough stupid over there to cause an anurism, I've already got a pinched needly feeling between my eyes.

[Xithras]

29. Yep.

Longtime friend of mine. He's a religious Mormon who supports Carson. He's not a tea partier, but he does vote according to his religious beliefs.

[libodem]

34. The one I know is Mormon, too

My ex brother in law who I see on Facebook. Very nice guy with a PhD in Psych, clean cut, decent, church going family man. Very conservative.

Poor dumb fuck.

[LiberalArkie]

53. Educated beyond his intelligence?

[libodem]

75. Probably

Yes.

[Fred Sanders]

30. Greg Crawford said it the best of anyone I know. TOON alert:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=136364

[virtualobserver]

39. the extreme ones, I can live with......

it is when I hear about someone who isn't extreme that it worries me.

[jberryhill]

32. Two live down the street from me

While I noticed their bumper sticker, they are a nice elderly couple.

[Iggo]

35. I know a shit-ton of people who'll vote for him if he's the nominee. (n/t)

[virtualobserver]

43. are they people who would never vote for a Democrat anyway?

[Iggo]

44. Every republican I've ever known would never vote for a Democrat anyway.

So, Yes.

[virtualobserver]

45. some non-Republicans seem to be looking at him

which is what worries me.

[kiva]

36. Nope, but I saw a Carson bumper sticker yesterday.

First time I saw one.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

40. I have a friend in the medical field. She knows several doctors that support him.

She didn't think much of them before she found out they were supporting Carson. Not all doctors are equal when it comes to intuition and judgement. She is loath to work with them on patients for concern of the patient and her own liability.

There's one doctor she has worked with and considers to be the smartest doctor she knows. That doctor hates Carson.

[saturnsring]

41. yup he's a rightie and likes whomever is the cons pick-o-the-week

before it was trump now it's carson next week who knows

on face book he posted < this was after the 1st democratic debate, "I care about her email she should be in jail"

[RockaFowler]

42. I know 2 people

Not surprised about one of them - she even has pictures of him from a book signing last week. She is kind of phony when it comes to politics. She hates Obamacare, but can't tell me why. She hates that the country is too liberal for her, but can't give me specifics about it.

Surprised about the other one. I knew she was right-wing, but I thought she was smarter than that.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

46. I friend of mine and her family are Carson supporters

Nice people, but they are very Christian (some conservative church, I forget which one). They would vote however the rest of the folks in their church vote for sure, which would be whoever ever seemed to be the most Christian among the Republicans. I don't think think they would ever consider voting for Democrat, but maybe if we got a Christian pastor to run as Democrat they'd consider it.

[redwitch]

47. My former SIL

She's a born again non critical thinker. Obviously.

[ibegurpard]

49. yes

Very religious

[HereSince1628]

51. My daughter has said she is a Carson supporter

She's a millennial, 5'-9", natural dishwater blonde of NW European ancestry, lived a bunch of years in Los Angeles, now in the midwest.

Not a practicing member of any religion (although she may be into Susan B Komen events in a cult-like fashion).

She's said she's drawn to his story of over-coming adversity.

Now that much of that story is a lie, I don't know if she will continue being a Carson supporter.

[sakabatou]

52. I know none

[kelly1mm]

54. Both my mother and in-laws are Carson supporters. All for abortion reasons. nt

[el_bryanto]

56. Some of my relatives

They are generally believers in the theory that Christianity is facing great persecution in 2015. I don't really talk to them though - they are just on my face book wall.

Bryant

[HuckleB]

57. Yup. Rabid extremist who love Fox News, so no big surprise.

[trueblue2007]

58. my sister and niece love BEN CARSON

[gollygee]

59. My brother was until very recently

He's a pretty horrible person. Very strong economic libertarian. He thinks poor people have some sense of entitlement issue, but my brother has the more huge sense of entitlement of any9one I have ever known.

[L. Coyote]

60. His roommate at West Point, the guy that looks like Jesus, he's behind him 100%

[d_r]

71. Please

That is Barry Gibb that time he played a Klingon on the.next generation

[L. Coyote]

81. I think you are right.

The painter is such a van Gogh, it is difficult to interpret.

[SammyWinstonJack]

61. Sadly, I do. DIL family having to do with religion.

[Thirties Child]

62. High school friend I connected with on Facebook

I've seen her once since we graduated in 1953, at our 50th class reunion. She was big on Bush then, is now big on Carson, lots of Carson posts on Facebook. Her father owned a Conoco station, she married a geologist for Texaco, her sons are in oil, her daughter married someone in oil. She lived all of her life in a major part of the oil patch, her exposure has been 100% oil, 100% West Texas conservatism. She's creative, talented, intelligent. After reconnecting with her I asked a question about myself that I still can't answer. If I had stayed in the Texas Panhandle, if I hadn't had exposure to other parts of the country and other points of view, would I still be conservative? I was conservative when I left - so conservative I voted for Nixon in 1960. If I had stayed, like my friend stayed, if my only exposure was to Texas oil, would I now be posting Facebook about Carson instead of Sanders ? I wish I knew.

[d_r]

63. I know someone who has one on facebook

She is SDA also. She is kind of a mind blower in cognitive dissonance. She is white and her husband is an African American and a police officer. She is very anti black lives matter and believes we are in a post racial society, that it is personal responsibility and the fault of victim s who do not respect police. She can't understand that white privilege around her will impact her own children. She posted the rant that carson went on about the media and Obama with the title "Bam!" In her mind he set the media straight.

[ScreamingMeemie]

64. I currently freelance (I know right? A self-employed supporting an R) with

two of them. One of them quietly removed her Carson banners from her page. The other, too stupid to. Actually, being self-employed, they both are stupid to throw their politics out there.

[Cassiopeia]

65. I work with one.

I would describe him as full to the brim with hate. He's extremely racist and despises the poor.

I don't know how he justifies supporting Carson based on how he feels about any person not white. I'm afraid to ask.

[virtualobserver]

76. Carson's criticisms of President Obama allow him to tell himself(and others) that he is not a racist

[DFW]

66. I don't know any

There WAS this one guy, who used to be very enamored of Carson, but this may not count: http://www.today.com/id/31503396/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/tv-host-ed-mcmahon-dead-age/

[bluedigger]

68. A Godly retired elementary school teacher.

Childhood friend posted something positive (she thought) on FB. I expected her to choose someone from the GOP field, so I can't really blame her too much, given her choices.

[cwydro]

69. Nope. eom

[Frustratedlady]

70. Yes, I know several.

A relative and his family. Several Net friends.

All are naive and religious to a fault. On FB, they post religious sayings/thoughts ad nauseum as though they aren't too firm in their beliefs. It has caused disputes and concerns within their families and friendships. There is no arguing with them, as they only believe Carson and FOX, Beck, Hannity and their ilk. The Republican propaganda machine is alive and working. It will take years to deprogram them...if ever.

[mythology]

72. Unfortunately yes

He supports either Trump or Carson.

Of course his response to Charleston shooting was to buy a confederate flag tank top and when traveling to France recently wore a U.S. flag tank top. So he's just all around a dumbass.

He is highly religious (Mormon to be precise) and poorly flirts with every woman who comes to our parkour class.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

73. I know one who is "out" --

She is an old friend who I've known since grammar school. After high school she went "wild child", with lots of coke-fueled nights. She got pregnant, lost the baby, and turned to Jesus, joining a nondenominational Christian fundamentalist church. She is a regular consumer of RW "news" sites who is fearful of Sharia law, hater "takers", and believes that abstinence only education works. (Which is especially funny considering how many of our fellow Catholic classmates got knock-up in HS.) She thinks Carson is a godly man who is being persecuted by the media.

I suspect that is where most of Carson's support comes from.

[Blue_In_AK]

74. Oh, yeah, two in the extended family,

and they're otherwise fairly normal people. I really don't get it, but I guess they have their reasons.

[Act_of_Reparation]

77. My mother-in-law.

She's sweet... but uneducated. She is easily swayed by appeals to base sentimentality and doesn't know enough about any major issue to know when she's being played. Plus, Carson is a gifted surgeon; and she tends to think specialized knowledge necessarily entails general knowledge.

She also hides a mean judgmental streak behind the saccharine veneer of a fifty-something housewife. She has great difficulty understanding why anyone would do, think, or say things differently than her.

[GreenPartyVoter]

78. Knew a conservative evangelical on Facebook who shares

a lot of Carson stuff. Not sure if she still likes him as I have been too busy to spend much time on there lately.

[0rganism]

79. the elder in-laws

not so sure about my bro-in-law and sisters-in-law but my mom- & pop-in-law are both Fox News addicted authoritarians who support Carsonoma. the mom-in-law is a devout Catholic, not so much the pop (a British immigrant).

[Omaha Steve]

80. I've seen 2 bumper stickers

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

83. From what it sounds like...

people know more Carson supporters than Hillary supporters

[edgineered]

85. ^^^^ nt

[virtualobserver]

87. True.....it certainly explains why he is the only Republican winning in head to head polls

I think that Carson is going to be like Trump......a slight dip but hanging on to his loyal followers.

The Republican party has a lot of very strange supporters.

[rbrnmw]

89. Friends from high school

They just love them some Ben Carson. They hate CNN for going after him. They have been posting mad over this vetting of Carson.

[Bottoms_Up]

90. My dad...

I told him exactly 3 days ago, "You know that guy says some 'crazy shit', right?"
Then my dad got upset and I had to leave. LOL.