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Why is it that those with the biggest egos are those with the least reason to have one?

I think Ben Carson and Donald Trump are both a product of the ideas that the Republican Party has promoted over the past couple of decades: "Government IS the problem." "Government can't do anything right."

Neither one has ever been elected to any public office, and this fits the idea because if they had been elected, then they would be "politicians", another Tea Party suspect class.

Neither one of them has any experience working within an organization with complex rules like the executive branch, or working with a contentious institution like Congress. If elected they would be totally incompetent, probably getting impeached within the first year.

Their candidacies may be the ultimate Republican threat to shut down the government.

The slate of GOP candidates demonstrated why I feel the party is such a threat to the country's well being. The thought of any of them having executive authority is soul numbing.

The fact-checking of Ben Carson's life story will not hurt him among his supporters, who are vehemently opposed to facts.

---Andy Borowitz

I suppose that if they can't convince others of their "greatness" they have to try to convince themselves.
That way they have a captive audience.

And now I wonder about how many of those "achievements" are lies?

Looks like Rubio has met his Tar-Baby...

Marco Rubio got some 'splainin' to to do.

Ben Carson caught in another lie: Says he thought the offer to attend West Point was given when he had dinner on Memorial Day with General Westmoreland in Detroit when Ben Carson was 17. General Westmoreland's spokesman says the general was not even in Michigan on that Memorial Day.

Ben Carson admits he lied about Wes...tories about troubled childhood are true

Here's how it was in 1973, when I was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy by Senator Frank Church.

Admission to the military academies is by appointment, anyone interested in going to one of them must apply to their Senators or Congressperson, who each are allocated one appointment. A couple of other ways in are if you are the child of a serviceperson who received certain high honors (don't remember what they all are offhand, though one is to be dead from war), Presidential appointments, or, if you are already enlisted, you can petition your commanding officer for a nomination.

Appointees become employed by the United States and are paid 1/2 the salary of the lowest commissioned officer, get room and board, and the four year education is "free" (it is not a liberal arts education...). The deal is that you promise to serve five years after graduation (you can resign during the first two years and avoid the five-year commitment, however, you have to pay back some of the costs). I quickly learned I had made a serious life-mistake and processed out at three months.

I'm waiting for someone to fact check Carson's claim that West Point says "four year scholarship" anywhere on its website. That would constitute a lie about a lie (speaking of the Tar-Baby).

Trump is not winning in the business world.

Trump losing investor trust.