Carson's followers believe he is the vessel through which God himself will be the president

[phantom power]

This column by Doyle McManus in today's LA Times about Ben Carson lays out all the reasons why Ben Carson is completely unqualified to be president, based on the many ridiculous things he's said.

But it concludes with something that actually shows why his followers believe he is more qualified than anyone else in the nation:

In his books, he often mentions incidents in which God intervened in his life. When he neglected to study at Yale, God showed him the answers on a chemistry exam. When he fell asleep while driving home one night, God spared his life. When he used new surgical techniques on children's brains, God saved some of his patients. And when he was on a safari in Africa, God answered his prayer for plenty of photogenic wildlife.
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The other day I wrote about the fact that GOP primary voters don't just mistrust government anymore, they have lost faith in their party and the system of government set forth in the constitution. They desire a president who will "get the job done" without succumbing to all that folderol of congress, the courts, elections etcetera. In other words they no longer believe in democracy.

The Trump people want a strongman. The Carson people want a religious figure. Everyone acknowledges that his inspirations life story is the basis upon which his entire campaign is based, and he says that explicitly. From his ill-tempered youth to his career as a neurosurgeon depending on God to guide his hand during brain surgery that life story is a story of divine intervention.

He doesn't need to know anything. His followers believe he is the vessel through which God himself will be the president.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/gods-right-hand-man.html

[dembotoz]

1. when having god on your side isn't enuf anymore

[SummerSnow]

2. and if he doesn't win they'll be mad at god

[COLGATE4]

3. No, you don't see how they 'think'.

They'll blame Satan for tricking someone (the electorate, the voting machines, someone, anyone).

[skypilot]

4. God helped him cheat on a chemistry exam?

I wonder if millions of school-age slackers just dropped to their knees and decided to find God.

[MindPilot]

15. And what other tests did God "help" you pass, Doctor?

Bio? Gross Anatomy? State Boards?

[Generic Brad]

5. If their version of God is all powerful, why is he not President already?

And in the big scheme of the universe, why is this one job on this planet at this particular time in history so pivotal? If Ben Carson's winning is God's will, then there is nothing more his believers need to do. It will just magically happen with or without their intervention.

[Nay]

6. That's what Romney thought, too, and look where he is now. nt

[postulater]

8. And Scott Walker too.

Sadly he is back in Wisconsin and taking it out on us. God must have told him to do that also. Thanks a lot God.

What doesn't make sense to me is why God would have told more than one person at a time that each could be president. Is god really that stupid?

[lame54]

7. That's why he thinks he can sleep through this campaign...

GOD IS MY SUPER-PAC

[postulater]

9. GOD IS MY SUPER-PAC

^^^^^^🙄

[hobbit709]

10. So will his followers duke it out with Cruz's followers?

Might be fun to watch.

[Vinca]

11. I've been thinking his followers believe he's the second coming of Christ.

But the Doyle McManus theory is plausible, too. Carson is playing to a gullible bunch.

[Octafish]

12. I think that honor went to Jerry Falwell.

[Squinch]

13. God had a nail appointment and was in a hurry when he went vessel shopping. He picked the

wrong one off the shelf.

And now he's stuck with it.

God is having a bad day.

[MindPilot]

14. Apparently god is not much of a surgeon either.

"When he used new surgical techniques on children's brains, God saved some of his patients."

[Eleanors38]

16. Phew! I can't fathom that given my rather violent morning constitutional in the vessel.

[GeorgeGist]

17. The God doesn't need their votes.

Faith

[ryan_cats]

18. As

As a Christian, I wonder how he feels about the patients God didn't save? Was it...
Or were they unworthy?
Maybe Carson himself was unworthy at that point and responsible for their untimely deaths.

[tabasco]

19. Aaaaand.....bring on Armageddon!

Kooky Carson will launch nukes when the voices in his head tell him Jesus wants a nuclear holocaust.

[hifiguy]

20. Yet these people are considered to be and allowed to claim

the description "sane."

Something is very wrong with that picture. Very wrong indeed.

Anybody who believes this is quite obviously suffering from a severe and persistent mental illness and it well past time it was said openly, repeatedly and loudly.

[spanone]

21. poor bastards, they surely have a tremendous shock coming

[smirkymonkey]

22. So if he loses, what does that say about their god?

Are their heads going to explode?

[UTUSN]

23. Guess what, Followers, you're in for a big surprise!1 n/t

[Hekate]

24. They thought that about Dubya, too. Anointed him in a secret rite and everything.

He still had shit for brains and the Rapture still did not come.

[Dem2]

25. The Republican primary voters are what? like 20% of the population?

And I bet they're not even a majority in their own party. It's amazing the power they wield in the primary.

Regular Republicans are scared, selfish people, but they are not fanatics - they seem to sit mostly on the sidelines while the money people try to push their candidate. In some ways I can't blame them for rebelling, too bad it's also the fanatics that are the most motivated. The left has some of this too. Politics is an interesting study in human behavior.

[lumberjack_jeff]

26. God "spoke through" the last guy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html?_r=0

It wasn't all that impressive, actually. God apparently has a poor grasp of foreign policy. Or domestic, for that matter.

[riversedge]

27. K and R-

[ThoughtCriminal]

28. Satan offered the job to Jesus

He turned it down.