I look for surgeons the way that Trump looks for negotiators. I don’t care if they’re ‘nice’. I don’t care about their bedside manner. Are they good cutters?
All of the surgeons who’ve worked on me have been fantastic doctors - but terrible human beings. Difficult to get along with. Some so arrogant that it was actually comical. Some had the social skills of an autistic person.
They’re a different breed.
I’m sure that Carson is a great surgeon. His record says so and I am impressed. I’m not even phased by the malpractice suits. Most doctors have to deal with that now days.
But I do NOT trust him to run a country. I cannot imagine him dealing with Congress or fighting with China on our behalf. I cannot see him as CIC of our fighting forces.
I have seen nothing to convince me that this guy has the first clue on what to do about the economy.
I have zero faith that this man could run a country.
Considering what people who have had the first clue, have done about the economy, and that many others who did as well, have used their knowledge to loot it instead, don't you think we might be better off with an honest amateur?
I have zero faith that this man could run a country.
Fair enough. But remember that many, many people thought the same of Harry Truman, Dick Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Teddy Roosevelt, whom the Karl Rove of his day, "Dollar Mark" Hanna, called "that damn cowboy" when he heard McKinley had died and Roosevelt would be taking the oath of office.
Now Teddy's on Rushmore, and who even remembers "Dollar Mark"?
And if that isn't enough, Abraham Lincoln was a railroad lawyer who never passed law school and carried not one electoral vote from south of the Ohio River. (Okay, that was partly his fault, but still.)
And he's up there on Rushmore, too.