TYT: The Disturbing Reason Ben Carson Is Winning In Iowa

[WhoIsNumberNone]

In the past few weeks Ben Carson has had a number of controversial comments about the Department of Education, the war on drugs, muslims, etc. Are these comments hurting or helping him? Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), and Mark Sovel (The Lip TV), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“Iowa Republicans do more than endure fringe candidates—they embrace them. In Iowa, factional candidates excel and extremists find ground to run. In 1988, Pat Robertson took a strong second in the Iowa caucuses. In 1996, another Pat—Pat Buchanan—came close to toppling Bob Dole. In 2008, Mike Huckabee won the contest, and in 2012, Rick Santorum won a slim victory over Mitt Romney. And ahead of the 2016 Republican presidential contest, Iowa Republicans are poised to give their votes to retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.

According to the latest poll fromBloomberg Politics and the Des Moines Register, Carson is ahead of the pack with 28 percent of the vote. But more interesting are the facts behind his rise. Iowans aren’t just charmed by his demeanor, his experience, and hisinexperience as a politician and policymaker—although that’s definitely true—they also support his most controversial, and entirely ludicrous, ideas.”*

Read more here: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/iowa_republicans_love_ben_carson_the_state_s_conservative_caucus_goers_have.html

[COLGATE4]

1. I still believe we're in the "Flavor of the Month" period

in Iowa. Remember President Cain? President Santorum? President Huckabee? President Bachmann?

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Hmmmmm . . .

Would President Carson be addressed as Mr. President or Dr. President?

(That's about as seriously as I take Republican presidential candidates for 2016.)

[COLGATE4]

4. Or, we could do it German style: "Mister Doctor President".

Has that teutonic charm, don't you think?

[Geronimoe]

2. If only the poll had Mickey Mouse in it

Mickey would win by a landslide.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Disturbing is why we needed a poll to tell us that. Equally disturbing is how this fact of the pure

paranoia and plain evil of so much of the GOP represented by these pollers and, yes, voters is also represented in Congress and in State legislatures.

[czarjak]

6. New Testament Christians voting for a Seventh Day Adventists...

Makes about as much sense as a New Testament Christians voting for a Mormon, but they'll do it anyway.

[bulloney]

7. So-called Christians will vote for anyone who blurbs out that they're religious.

This is their twisted way of telling themselves that they're being good Christians. They don't check for things like the candidate's position on the issues and whether they're compatible with Christ's teachings. They hear clowns like Trump and Carson merely say they're religious - regardless of how insincere it may be - and they latch on to it, especially if the candidate adds stupid things they like to believe like the ones Republican candidates have said recently on the Holocaust, guns, Medicare, immigrants, slavery and other issues.