Dear Mr. Trump,
I hope you take the opportunity to send the biggest bouquet of the nicest flowers you can find in Manhattan over to the Carson campaign headquarters. You owe them at least that much.
Heck, why not make it a case of Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. At $2,901 per bottle you can write it off as your best campaign expenditure to date. I know…send him the flowers and a case!
Here’s the perfect case against the expectation found attached to campaign contributions of special interest groups. Unfortunately, Dr. Carson couldn’t fully appreciate the value of caution when vetting his political advisors. His desire to succeed in his quest for the White House was undermined by those who infiltrated his inner circle. This week we learned how those innocuous attachments can conceal the sharp, clasping claws hidden beneath the softest of fur.
He finally managed to find a way to accomplish in one news cycle something the political powers have been waiting for since he first announced his candidacy. His eminent campaign implosion brought on by an act so seemingly innocent none of the major news outlets have even caught on.
Of course, the journalistic intelligentsias were busy pandering to the distressed college neophyte unhappy with their “first world” collegiate experience. This was the latest shiny thing blinding the senses of those chronicling the calendar of our current events. Until the real news event in Paris shoved their nonsense from the front page and snapped us back into the realities of terror in the 21st century. So, it’s really not surprising that they’ve missed the beginning of the end of the Carson Campaign.
But there is something about this new political field which the good Dr. Carson evidently overlooked causing him to unknowingly step into a Republican minefield strewn about with a variety of political bombshells. This one registers a solid nine on the conservative scale of one to ten.
When Dr Carson voiced support for the Presidents’ TPP trade agreement most all of us in the conservative circle shook our head in utter amazement. How could he make such an obvious blunder? There’s no way he could have read those million plus words, much less fully comprehend the expanse of its consequence all within the span of 48 hours. Why would he risk alienating the bulk of his conservative base so easily?
I’m going to guess the good doctor didn’t spend one minute reading the Trans Pacific Partnership…heck, I’m willing to go so far as to suggest that perhaps he got an outline of talking points handed to him defining his position by some trusted staffer. I’m also going to suggest that he failed to use a professional polling service to evaluate how much his candidacy relies on a conservative base.
We aren’t fooled by the casual reference of his spokesperson that Dr Carson was “now inclined to support TPP, with reservations.” PS that throw away line “with reservations” doesn’t quite cut it for us. We are smart enough to know when we’re being placated.
And this is why we are standing with you on your way across the American campaign trail. We trust your business instinct and that’s something you can only get from a man who has the repeated experience of creating something out of nothing. You instinctively knew how damaging this trade agreement would be for America and said as much as soon as the President announced it.
So, as we watch the coming erosion of Dr Carson’s polling numbers we can be thankful that you are running your race based on principle vs. politics. Of course the press will be all a twitter when those defecting Carson conservatives board the Trump Train.
Word has it that the establishment powers already smells blood in the water and is desperately coming up with a game plan to suddenly become relevant once again in this election cycle. They don’t know how difficult it is to watch them squirm as they attempt to wrestle control back from the Master of Attention Politics.
Their solution is to offer up the former Governor of Massachusetts…the ever humble ever gracious two time losing presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Mitt hopefully has the sense to stay out this time. All the polls of his last debacle showed the reason he lost last time had to do with the fact the conservative portion of every successful republican win had stayed home not once, but twice each time his name decorated the top of our ticket.
They (the political arm of the left leaning press) will want to make a big deal about your verbal opinions concerning Dr Carson. For the most part there’s a whole swath of us in flyover country who could care less about that…we’re more interested in your ability to restore common sense to our political process here at home and restore worldwide the respect we’ve lost in the last six years of this idiotic leading from behind foreign policy.
Parts of the world seems like it’s ready to blow any second and the man currently occupying the White House looks like he’s in over his head every time the foreign press grills him about his strategy for ISIS. We know we’re not in Kansas anymore Toto. The bloom is off the rose with this president and even the press is beginning to tire of his doublespeak.
We’re not expecting more from you than what we would of ourselves. We just want you to finish what you started. We know what the score is and we’re not backing down. The wizards of smart don’t have a clue as to what they’re up against. They think we disappeared…just wait until we get the chance to show up to the polls.
Watching from the sidelines,
Roger J Conway