Illing: Ben Carson doesn’t want to win: His campaign is all about cashing in

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Campaign shake-up: Three top aides for Ben Carson resign
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...two-top-aides-for-ben-carson-resign/78131612/

Crumble: Ben Carson’s campaign manager, communications director quit over “internal [expletive]”
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/...ations-director-quit-over-internal-expletive/

No worries, he's now got a "Christian Soldier", who had helped with Iraqi Freedom War crusade design, to steer Carson towards promise land of bilking anti-Obama GOP base White House residency:

Ben Carson’s new campaign chairman is a Christian soldier who wants to use the military to convert the world to Christianity


Ben Carson’s new campaign chairman is a Christian soldier who ‘believes’ in him

By David Weigel December 31 at 7:56 PM

Carson's new campaign chairman has worked on just one campaign: Carson's. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Long before Major Gen. Robert Dees (ret.) went to work for Ben Carson, he was studying the former neurosurgeon's spiritual lessons. One of his grandsons, then 13, devoured Carson's inspirational 1996 book "Think Big." On a family vacation -- "on the beach, with flip flops and so forth" -- the teenager led the family's four-day morning study time, cycling through the chapters of the book. Honesty Shows. Nice Guys Finish. Caution: God at Work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-is-a-christian-soldier-who-believes-in-him/




This ex-general wants to use the military to convert the world to Christianity. He's Ben Carson's foreign policy guru

Will Bunch November 18, 2015

In 2003, a two-star Army major general, Robert Dees, retired after a decorated 41-year career as a soldier in which he became a top officer in the legendary 101st Airborne Division and served as commander of a combined U.S.-Israeli missile defense force.

In the 12 years since, Dees has committed himself to his new crusades -- making the U.S. military and the fighting forces of its global allies into missionaries for his deeply held Christian faith, and speaking out against the threat to America posed by a rival religion, Islam.
Currently the director of the Institute for Military Resilience at the Christian fundamentalist Liberty University, founded by the late evangelist Jerry Falwell, Dees -- as reported by James Bamford in a recent expose in Foreign Policy -- argued in a 2005 newsletter that the U.S. military may be the best way of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to the broader American public. He said "the military may well be the most influential way to affect that spiritual superstructure. Militaries exercise, generally speaking, the most intensive and purposeful indoctrination program of citizens."

Indeed, Dees also believes that U.S. forces, working with the militaries of our closest allies, should be used to spread Christianity around the globe. In a 2007 video, Bamford reported, Dees said: "We seek to transform the nations of the world through the militaries of the world. And we’re in twenty different countries around the world, recognizing that if you could possibly impact the military, you can possibly impact that whole nation for Jesus Christ and for democracy and for proper morality and values-based institutions.”

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/...nity-Hes-Ben-Carsons-foreign-policy-guru.html

 

[CPUd]

I said months ago in here that Carson was all about making money. Cashing in for future speeches and books and TV.

It's how he has made money in the past. What? You think he made it being a surgeon? Please bitch!

LOL he was probably making $500K a year (in today's dollars) back then.

 

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LOL he was probably making $500K a year (in today's dollars) back then.

Very unlikely. Most likely he was charging very little or treating all poor patients for free.

Why? Because that is what Jesus would do.

 

[Zippyjuan]

LOL he was probably making $500K a year (in today's dollars) back then.

He does OK. http://moneymorning.com/2015/10/02/ben-carson-net-worth-paid-speeches-and-public-appearances/

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson has a net worth of $10 million dollars, according to The Wall Street Journal on July 14.

Carson's wealth is almost entirely self-made…

Ben Carson Net Worth: Where the Money Comes From

The vast amount of the Dr. Carson's total net worth comes from his successful career as a world-renowned neurosurgeon. The Johns Hopkins retiree is credited for overseeing the first successful removal of conjoined twins. He has been awarded 38 honorary doctorate degrees and several national merit citations. Carson's mixed well with Capitol Hill, as well. He was appointed to the President's Council on Bioethics in 2004. In 2008, he won the Presidential Medal in Freedom – the nation's highest civilian honor. And a Gallup poll in 2014 ranked Carson the sixth-most admired man in the world.

Ben Carson retired from his neurosurgery career on July 1, 2013, stating, "I'd much rather quit when I'm at the top of my game."

Now most of his cash flow comes from writing books, including an autobiography, and giving talks, reported Newsmax.com on June 4.

Carson earned between $8.9 million and $27 million in a 16-month period starting from the beginning of 2014, reported The Wall Street Journal's July 14 article. These figures were based on WSJ's analysis of financial disclosures it obtained. Carson gave more than 141 paid speeches and public appearances between the beginning of last year and the day of his official campaign announcement on May 4, 2015.

The Carson campaign has raised $10.5 million since March 2, reported WSJ. He raised $8.3 million of this total sum in the second quarter, which ended on June 30. WSJ also reported that the Carson campaign has spent over half of his funds, with an estimated 72% of the money going to fundraising costs. These costs include phone banks, direct mail, and email lists. Additionally, the campaign-finance disclosure released by Carson's aides showed that the candidate's team had spent over $1.2 million on web services.

Carson was ranked sixth on the list of presidential candidates' net worth, according to USA Today on Aug. 26, right behind Kasich, Clinton, Bush, Fiorina, and, of course, Trump.

His speaking fees are said to be at least $40,000 an appearance. Ron Paul charges $50,000. http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/ron-paul-will-charge-50000-to-speak#.gb0vbDpAA

 

[Badger Paul]

"Armstrong Williams, a conservative radio personality and longtime friend of Carson’s who has been advising him in an unpaid role. Williams has described himself as Carson's business partner and a longtime friend. The two met in the 1990s when Williams interviewed Carson for a TV show, the Hill has reported. CNN reported on some of the campaign's in-fighting earlier this month."

The Carson campaign should be studied as a personification of Conservative INC., Williams especially. He's type of parasite that lives off of politics, as this site should well know.

 

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

And in a way, they were partly right. He didn't want to win.

It's less that he didn't want to win then Ron knew he couldn't win. Ron is no fool, he knew the whole set-up would be rigged against him. But enough of his friends and aides prevailed upon Ron in late 2006 that it was important he run so he could force ideas about liberty into the national political conversation.