How the Left plans to reduce Ben Carson.

In an earlier post I wrote that the Establishment feels that once they take Trump out, Carson will be an easy mark, leaving the field to an ineffective Jeb Bush. What is the evidence on which I base this? A NY Times op ed piece by Charles M. Blow illustrates the point.


Mr Blow defends the Media and its 'gotcha' questions, takes gratuitous shots at Palin and begins the Left's attack on Carson. He recycles allegations that Carson was connected to Mannatech and that Carson lied about his involvement.


In case you wonder about Mr Blow's opinion of the GOP, here is his assessment of the 'outsider' candidates: "The more traditional portion of the Republican field is littered with candidates with strong résumés — I use the word strong here loosely, to mean the existence of governmental experience, not the quality of it — but relatively weak rhetorical skills.

Of the nontraditional lot, there is a former neurosurgeon whose strategy seems to be to appear barely awake while delivering word salads of outlandishness in a murmur, a real-estate mogul full of bluster and bawdiness, and a fired C.E.O. engaged in a breathtaking example of pink-slip revisionism."

Apart from the fact that a debate is not a platform for the show of rhetorical skills, the NY Times assessment of governors and Senators is a low blow. It is not how they describe Democrats.