Sorry, Dr. Carson, not much room for grain in there.
How many nonsensical utterances does a GOP candidate have to make before people start backing away from his candidacy?
Ben Carson, who was a respected pediatric neurosurgeon with an inspiring backstory of working his way up from poverty (albeit with plenty of government help), has a history of saying crazy stuff. Lately, it’s just been getting weirder and weirder. And when people dig up wacko things he’s said in the past, he doesn’t deny them as a “youthful indiscretion.” He doubles down on the crazy.