FEBRUARY 5, 2016 BY ALLAHPUNDIT

I … guess this is true, if you’re willing to analogize at a sufficiently high level of abstraction.

Cruz should have held his campaign staff accountable for spreading bad information just like Hillary should have held State Department staff accountable for not stopping jihadi savages from murdering Americans. At a high level of abstraction everything is easily analogized to some much greater failing.

Ben Carson should have anticipated how his trip home to Florida after the caucuses might be misunderstood just like, I suppose, George Bush should have anticipated how his invasion of Iraq might be misunderstood. Carson should be less passive on the campaign trail in New Hampshire and South Carolina just like Obama should be less passive towards Iran and Russia in the Middle East.

Given Carson’s propensity for Nazi analogies, it’s an act of restraint that he chose to compare Cruz to Hillary instead of Hitler. Maybe that’s next week.

Asked by Todd Starnes if he was “satisfied with the way Sen. Cruz has handled himself as Christian” over the incident in Iowa, Carson said, “Well, let me put it this way, it’s not the way that I would have handled it.”

“I would have said if I didn’t agree with what’s being — which he did say that — I would make sure that it didn’t happen again,” Carson continued. “And I would take corrective action. Not to take corrective action is tacitly saying it’s okay, or it’s sort of like, as Hillary Clinton said after Benghazi, ‘what difference does it make.’”

“I’m not saying that it rises to the level up Benghazi, I’m saying it’s the same kind of attitude,” he said, when pressed by Starnes if the controversy rose to the level of Benghazi. “The attitude being, it’s water under the bridge, it’s gone by, let’s not deal with it.”

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http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/05/be...wards-benghazi/

Was it trickery or simply wishful thinking? TM

more on the subject:

Four days after winning the Iowa caucuses, Cruz's team is still struggling to answer questions about whether it relied on trickery to pad its lead by convincing Iowans that Carson — a rival for evangelical votes — was dropping out of the race. What the Cruz campaign initially called a knee-jerk response to ambiguous news reports has been revealed to be a more coordinated effort to steer Carson voters to the Cruz camp amid the chaotic caucus atmosphere.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/be...3#ixzz3zNIIwicR