http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/16/1358222/-In-bold-speech-Republican-presidential-candidate-Ben-Carson-explains-why-he-s-not-crazy?detail=email
Not the preferred starting point for a Republican presidential candidate, but definitely an oft-used one.
Ben Carson—a Washington outsider, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, a favorite among tea-party insurgents—had a message Thursday for the Republican Party's most influential establishment figures: I'm not "crazy."
When your opening act is explaining to people that you are not, in fact, as insane as you might first sound, you are officially starting off your presidential race as a second-tier candidate at best. But this is conservatism, a movement that is willing to forgive a whole lot of crazy if you just patiently explain that it's all a plot against you.
Speaking to the Republican National Committee's winter meeting, Carson tried to challenge the caricature of him as a right-wing zealot by addressing—one by one—many of the individual controversies that have surrounded him, and dismissing them as lies from "the liberal media."
Carson defended, among other things, his statements about Obamacare being the worst thing since slavery; comparing present-day America to Nazi Germany; and calling last year's Veterans Affairs scandal "a gift from God" because it revealed holes in the system.
"I stand by those" remarks, Carson told the crowd. "I don't think there's anything crazy at all."
okay standing by the idiotic statements you make and then saying you believe them kinda puts that last nail in your coffin and does not explain why you hold these crazy ideas , is it that the republicans only attract those Black tokens that are challenged or are they seeking them out to make their point about our intellect? btw he does not explain himself in this article and thinking the remarks are not crazy is crazy giving million great health care many for the first time i'd like him to point out what part of slavery was better than that.
