White Repugs Will Never, Never, EVER vote for a Ni**er, Not Even Ben Carson

Carson could stroll into February with 85 percent in the polls and he'll still exit Iowa without a single repug vote, much less delegate.  Ditto New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and the whole damn country.  There are African-Americans who would be tempted to vote for a black republican, but they are all registered Democrats.

Vicious racism is the raison d'etre of the republican party.  Without racism - knee-jerk hatred of everything and everyone who is not white - the republican party Does. Not. Exist. White repugs are telling pollsters they luuuuuurrrrvvvve Ben Carson because it justifies their claims to not be racist, just against traitors like President Obama and thugs like Black Lives Matter.

But when they step into the voting booth or the caucus room, they'll vote for any white candidate rather than the ni**er.  Because that's what Ben Carson and every non-white is to them:  a ni**er.

Kevin Drum:

Carson is increasingly becoming the flavor of the week among the GOP faithful, and in fairness, not at the expense of Trump. It's mostly at the expense of Jeb Bush and the increasingly pathetic Scott Walker. Man, that guy sure is making my political crystal ball skills look bad. Get your act together, Scott! If things keep going the way they are, who knows? Maybe we'll end up with a Carson-Sanders contest next fall. Wouldn't that be a hell of a thing?

Yep, because repug heads would explode before they voted for either.