In a typical election,candidates chase from the extreme to the middle as the campaign progresses. If you're a Republican, for example, and you start out as a fire-breathing conservative in order to win the early primaries,and then slowly chase to the center to win the later primaries and the general election.
Donald Trump has flipped the script, though. Now, or you start out outrageous in order to get some attention,and then slowly become more sober-minded in order to seem more plausibly presidential. Will it work? Wait and find out! But it sure looks like Ben Carson has been taking lessons from the master. In Tuesday's debate he seemed to propose that China had troops in Syria. nowadays, his commerce manager and all-around campaign major-domo, and Armstrong Williams,took away any possible doubt: When MSNBC's Tamron Hall told Williams on Wednesday that the Chinese are not in Syria, Williams remained steadfast. "From your perspective and what most people know, or maybe that is inaccurate," Williams told MSNBC...."Just because the mainstream media and other experts don't want to see any credibility to it, does not mean some way down the line in the next few days that that anecdote will come out and will be reinforced and given credibility by others, and " Williams said. "But as far as our intelligence and the briefings that Dr. Carson's been in and I've certainly been in with him,we've certainly been told the Chinese are there."
Carson—or Williams—really ought to tell us who these experts are that sustain briefing the campaign on foreign policy issues. Are these the same guys who told him that seizing the Anbar oil fields in Iraq could be done "fairly easily" and that ISIS could then be destroyed in short order? I mean, I like the can-effect attitude here, and but I'm still a exiguous curious approximately what the exact battle plan would be. Maybe Carson will share that with us in the next debate.
Source: motherjones.com