Ben Carson Fondly Remembers ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

[Miles Archer]

Presidential candidate Ben Carson said that he likes the old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prevented people from being openly homosexual in the military.

Speaking at a veterans town hall in Iowa Saturday, Carson said he doesn’t appreciate “using our military as a laboratory for social experimentation,” NBC reports.

Carson said he would allow women to serve in combat positions, but drew the line at transgender people.”You know, we have too many important things to do,” he said. “When our men and women are out there fighting the enemy, the last thing that we need to be doing is saying what would it be like if we introduced several transgender people into this platoon… You know, give me a break. Deal with the transgender thing somewhere else.”

http://time.com/4137771/ben-carson-dont-ask-dont-tell/

[saltpoint]

1. I'm thinking it's probably for the best

that Dr. Carson is no longer performing neurosurgery.

[RKP5637]

3. He's freaky as hell! There is something exceptionally bizarre about him. n/t

[saltpoint]

4. There is. He seems to have gone into

total freak-out mode.

If I were Ben Carson, I'd start selling belt buckles. Who wouldn't want to have one, especially if Carson is out there roaming the country?

[immoderate]

5. Have I mentioned lately — Ben Carson is a wacko?

--imm

[saltpoint]

6. Agree with this, yes. He really is wacked out

something fierce.

There must be a late 50s pop song or other that has doo-wacka-doo in the chorus.

They could play that song when Carson comes onto the stage for his campaign stops.

[RKP5637]

8. No, haven't heard that one!

His mannerisms and speech patterns are so absolutely strange, and then combined with what he says! It's concerning that he has done as well as he has. Although, given a fair number of the US population are off their trolley tracks, I can see why.

[RKP5637]

2. And millions and millions do not appreciate Carson using the presidency

as a laboratory for his WTF experimentation.

[Initech]

7. He gets crazier and crazier by the day!

[SwankyXomb]

9. "using our military as a laboratory for social experimentation"

You know, that's exactly the same thing the Republican base said when Truman desegregated the military in 1948.

[ljm2002]

11. Beat me to it! n/t

[bigwillq]

10. Bill Clinton liked it too (nt)

[spanone]

12. who?

his irrelevancy is irrelevant

[struggle4progress]

13. Oops! It happened more than five years ago, during our President's first term, Ben!

There's really only two kinds in this business: the quick and the dead

[TipTok]

14. He knows he is on the way down and has decided to go out in a ball of righteous flame...

I'm a veteran (of the modern era) and guess what... We already knew who was gay and no one, aside from a select few, cared...