Ben Carson is starting to spend money on ads.  He shouldn't, at least not on these ads.  They're awful. Ben Carson's surging campaign will begin airing two television ads in key early voting states on Friday, NBC News has learned. The $500,000 ad buy will air in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, and includes themes centered on Carson's history as a doctor and status as an outsider in the 2016 race. Both ads end with the tagline: "Heal, Inspire, Revive." In his first ad, labeled "Carson shares his vision for America's future," we never learn what that vision is.  The audio is so poor that the first half of it sounds like it was recorded in a wind tunnel with a Radio Shack microphone until the irritating piano music picks up.  Carson says, "We need a government that understands that it is by and for the people.  Crowds are hungry for some honesty and real solutions to the problems...(Read Full Post)