Are GOP Voters Attracted to Ben Carson's "Humility" or Just "His Shuffling"

Uncle Tom's Cabin

 GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson became a leader in the right-wing's campaign against so-called "political correctness" when, at what was billed as a  prayer breakfast, he called President Barack Obama (to his face) a psychopath.  Since then, the former neurosurgeon has compared Obamacare to slavery and continued to rise in GOP polls telling Muslims they cannot be president and whites that the confederate flag should be flown with pride.

While once an inspirational speaker, who offered encouragement to black youth to "reach for the stars" he has now become little more than an unpaid advertisement for Uncle Tom's Cabin.   The arrogance with which he displays his lack of understanding of politics, governance and for that matter science, might just be the kind of "God complex" sometimes associated with doctors in the more elite medical specialties.  Or, he might be what my Grandmama Ida might have called,  "just an old, educated fool".

 Whatever the case, I've had to laugh at the phoniness of Carson's right-wing supporters claiming that their support of this man has nothing to do with race.  It has everything to do with the fact that Ben Carson is a black apologist for their bigotry.  How else can you explain a presidential candidate, who rather than hide stories questioning his emotional stability, is instead castigating the media for questioning the violent, knife-slicing narrative he presents of his swashbuckling, ghetto youth.

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