Ben Carson announces campaign is over

'I will still continue to be heavily involved in trying to save our nation,' the retired neurosurgeon said.

Ben Carson formally quits White House race - and WON'T endorse anyone else (yet)
. . . "He was going to serve as the national chairman of My Faith Votes, an organization that has the goal of getting evangelical Christians to the polls. "

. . . 'I'll be involved in a lot of different things including my Faith Votes, which is an organization that is going to try and help the faith community to recognize how important their vote is,' Carson explained. 'Because in 2012, 25 million evangelicals did not vote. The margin of difference was only five million.' 

"He bemoaned that this year's electorate hadn't had 'enough of this foolishness.' 

" 'We haven't gotten there quite yet,' Carson noted.

Politico

. . . "The outgoing candidate peppered his speech with implicit warnings to the country about its future, both for fellow candidates and for the media, which intensely scrutinized claims about his biography throughout the course of his campaign.

“ 'You don’t need to have much of a developed brain to react, to react in fear," Carson said in urging a more thoughtful, productive national political discourse. "Animals can do that; lizards do that.”

"Later in the speech, Carson appealed to the audience to get active and informed.

“ 'We cannot continue to allow ourselves to be influenced and molded by the political class and by the media. That is going to destroy us," he said, remarking that it's "kind of sad" that the press is the only business protected by the Constitution "because they were supposed to be the allies of the people.' " . . .

From Infowars  . . . "The retired neurosurgeon said he would spend the rest of the campaign trying to motivate the Christian voting base.

“ 'Nothing is more important to me than my personal faith, and it is my faith that motivated me to be involved in the political process to begin with,” Carson said. “I believe Christians in this country can easily determine the next president of the United States and all other national and local leaders, should they simply show up at the polls.' ”

I'm pleased the Doctor knows he is loved by many of us who would not have chosen him. Many of us wanted him to be spared the personal destruction that would have come upon him from the Democrats. TD