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Ben Carson Said He’d Run for President if He ‘Felt Called by God’ — Well, Guess What
The Balze ^ | 16 May 2014 | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 05/16/2014 5:30:34 PM PDT by mandaladon

Ben Carson, the famed neurosurgeon who delivered a bold speech critical of President Barack Obama at least year’s National Prayer Breakfast, is reportedly warming up to the idea of a presidential run.

Carson told the Weekly Standard this week that he’s “starting to feel” a tug to possibly run for national office, highlighting the intense response he gets when he travels around the nation speaking about contemporary issues.

He spoke specifically about a woman whom he said truly touched him when she implored him to seek the presidency. She just kept clinging to my hand and said, ‘You have to run. You have to run,’” Carson told the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes. “And so many people tell me that, and so I think I’m starting to hear something.”

But Carson said he’s fully aware that running for president is no easy feat.

“It’s a daunting thing,” he said. “I know how vehemently the left will come after you, try to destroy you, try to destroy your family.”

Carson continued, “But at the same time I recognize that people like Nathan Hale — he said, ‘My only regret is I have but one life to give to my country’ … and if everybody runs for the hills because they’re afraid that somebody is going to attack them or their family, then [the left] will have won.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bencarson; cruz; elections
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Could be a good running mate for Cruz.
1 posted on 05/16/2014 5:30:34 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Opinions?


2 posted on 05/16/2014 5:31:59 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: mandaladon

He’s a good man, but has anyone who said this ever NOT gotten the call?

It’s seems like it’s a given once they make the statement.


3 posted on 05/16/2014 5:32:24 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I don’t know if I could vote for him because his position on the 2nd Amendment seems to have been colored by where he comes from, rather than a sensible overall view which would obviously be ravenously pro-gun.

However, Carson is unashamedly pro-life. He ripped the homo agenda a new one comparing them to NAMBLA on live TV (pretty ballsy). He is a free market thinker, and is very knowledgeable on healthcare.

I would look forward to having an intellectual heavyweight like Carson on the debate stage, and I’d agree a Cruz/Carson ticket would be a formidable challenge to the Hillary Shillary machine.


4 posted on 05/16/2014 5:35:53 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: mandaladon

Seeing as he doesn’t support my 2nd Amendment right, I’m not interested in trusting him with power.


5 posted on 05/16/2014 5:36:10 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

No.

I would like to see him run for mayor of Detroit. He’s a hometown hero and might actually be able to get through to enough of the people to make a difference.

Plus his weakness on guns wouldn’t be an issue there because state law rules on that issue.


6 posted on 05/16/2014 5:36:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I think he’s a brilliant man and a great asset to the conservative cause, overall. I don’t think he will be, or should be, president.


7 posted on 05/16/2014 5:37:47 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: chris37

“There’s a reason for the Second Amendment; people do have the right to have weapons.” Ben Carson


8 posted on 05/16/2014 5:39:31 PM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: mandaladon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson

Carson was the keynote speaker at the February 7, 2013, National Prayer Breakfast.[23] During his speech, Carson commented on several social and fiscal issues including political correctness, education, the national debt, health care and taxation. On political correctness (PC), Carson remarked: “PC is dangerous, because you see, this country, one of the founding principles was freedom of thought and freedom of expression. And it [PC] muffles people. It puts a muzzle on them.” On education, he compared current graduation rates with those 200 years ago: “In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville came to our country ... anybody finishing the second grade was completely literate.” About healthcare: “Here’s my solution. When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record and a health savings account, to which money can be contributed, pre-tax from the time you are born, to the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members.” Carson spoke favorably of the flat tax system, which he prefers to call the “Proportional Tax” based on the biblical principle of the tithe.[24]


9 posted on 05/16/2014 5:43:10 PM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: mandaladon
Dr. Benjamin Carson On Gun Control: "It Depends On Where You Live"
10 posted on 05/16/2014 5:43:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Viennacon

How about him being Secretary of Health or something related to his profession?


11 posted on 05/16/2014 5:43:41 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

well, that would be the ideal. HHS was a job made for Carson really. Just like, if I were president, Allen West would probably be my SOD ;)


12 posted on 05/16/2014 5:47:59 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: mandaladon

I hope he does. That might get me excited. And maybe it will fire some people up when the left starts calling him “Uncle Tom”.


13 posted on 05/16/2014 5:48:22 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: cripplecreek

When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.” (Glenn Beck Show, March 1, 2013).....”semi-automatic” is the key word...I don’t have a problem with his view.


14 posted on 05/16/2014 5:49:44 PM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: mandaladon

Ben is already doing the chameleon thing... walking back the fact that he thinks guns should be registered and licensed just like vehicles, and the fact that he thinks Saint Trayvon was the victim.


15 posted on 05/16/2014 5:50:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: mandaladon
No. 2nd Amendment is a disqualification.

I also don't like those scam superpacs asking for donations for his "non" presidential run.

16 posted on 05/16/2014 5:50:34 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: SaxxonWoods

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!! 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not trust pols who talk that way. When I bought my Eldorado Biarritz, I did not say God told me to do it.


17 posted on 05/16/2014 5:51:29 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: mandaladon
..”semi-automatic” is the key word...I don’t have a problem with his view.

Most firearms are semi-automatic. I didn't see that comment from him. He's gone from "no" to "Hell no" with that comment.

18 posted on 05/16/2014 5:51:45 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: mandaladon
”semi-automatic” is the key word...I don’t have a problem with his view.

I do, and anybody with two brain cells in a row would.

Most of the handguns in circulation are semi-autos.

I suspect that you think a "semi-auto" is a "machine-gun."

Am I right?

19 posted on 05/16/2014 5:52:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: mandaladon
The Balze

lol.

20 posted on 05/16/2014 5:52:37 PM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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