May 4th, this man will make Democrats smile.
May 4th will be the day that this Democrat raises toast to Ben Carson, certified batshit crazy nutjob, as he
declares his candidacy for the presidency :
Dr. Ben Carson is expected to officially declare his decision on whether to run for president May 4 in his hometown of Detroit.
The event at the Detroit Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts will be ticketed, though a time hasn’t been set, officials said Monday.
I'm going to take a guess and assume the amount of graft to be gained here will be irresistible. Ben is in.
That's one ticket I'd love to get my hands on, frame, and place right up on my "wall of id" next to my autographed poster of the number 999.
I now know with certainty that there will be a stage. On that stage will be a bevy of Republican white guys in suits, all trying to out-Hun each other for the love of a crowd of very old misters. But sticking out like, well...a black guy at a Republican political rally...will be old Uncle Ben. He will be there all smug and superior. Whipping them into a frenzy in ways that he, and only he, could ever do. But that's not the best part.
The best part will be all the other guys on stage agreeing with him, praising him, and hoping he will make an excellent gnome in the Rose Garden. They'll be falling over themselves to make nice with a man who is in no way qualified to be president. But only because the frothing at the mouth GOP base is so insane that they want to hear every psychopathic utterance from his mouth repeated. But by the other guys. Because lets face it, Ben Carson has no chance of being nominated. For obvious reasons.
That will put the eventual GOP nominee exactly where Mitt Romney was in 2012: caught between a rock and whomever gets the Carson People. Beautiful.
So on May 4th I will raise my stein and wish Dr. Ben well. May his mouth froth, his feet shuffle, and his applause lines be plentiful and completely insane.