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Ben Carson Hints At 2016 Run But Says: ‘I Won’t Become A Politician’
Daily Caller ^ | August 29, 2014 | Alex Pappas

Posted on 08/29/2014 5:06:38 PM PDT by NCjim

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson is continuing to hint that he will run for president in 2016, though pledges that if elected he won’t become a “politician” in the traditional sense.

“I will tell you that I’m not a politician, and I don’t believe in political correctness,” Carson told the crowd Friday at a political summit in Texas. “So I may say something that will offend someone. And I frankly never plan on becoming a politician. It doesn’t mean that I won’t do something in public office, but I won’t be a politician in the process.”

Carson made the comments Friday afternoon in Dallas at Americans for Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream Summit.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; americans4prosperity; carson2016; kochbrothers
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1 posted on 08/29/2014 5:06:38 PM PDT by NCjim
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To: NCjim

Carson-Cruz or Cruz-Carson would work for me.


2 posted on 08/29/2014 5:08:07 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: NCjim

Carson is not presidential candidate material. But he can be an effective conservative voice for the right candidate. I pray he has the wisdom to discern the difference.


3 posted on 08/29/2014 5:09:23 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: workerbee

Unfortunately he’s now saying we need more government funded child care.


4 posted on 08/29/2014 5:10:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: NCjim

Yeah, he was on TV the other night thanking Jesse Jackson for all the wonderful civil rights work he has done.

I’ll pass.


5 posted on 08/29/2014 5:11:25 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)))
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To: NCjim

And Allen West Sec. of Defense.


6 posted on 08/29/2014 5:12:16 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: NCjim

You won’t become president either, Mr. Carson.


7 posted on 08/29/2014 5:12:27 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: workerbee

Agree. You cannot run for political office and not have a political ideology.


8 posted on 08/29/2014 5:13:52 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: workerbee
You are correct. Despite all his admirable qualities, he will prove to be just a ploy, used by the media to hammer the conservatives. Just a thought. He does not have executive experience.
9 posted on 08/29/2014 5:14:29 PM PDT by Fungi
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We have NEVER elected someone to the White House who has not held a government position of some kind (elective, appointed, military or a combination, etc.) but we’re going to start now? Mr. Obama wasn’t enough of a neophyte for us? I’m sure Dr. Carson is a nice man and a skilled surgeon, but that is besides the point.


10 posted on 08/29/2014 5:15:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson is continuing to hint that he will run for president in 2016...

Pass, thank you.

11 posted on 08/29/2014 5:17:21 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: CatherineofAragon

Perhaps you missed the entire content of his comments to rev Jackson he thanked him for his work with Martin Luther king but differs with Jackson on the times and changes that have taken place since the initial civil rights movement. It is too bad that conservatives can not make a single misstep And their whole campaign falls apart we are too particular and hold these folks to such high standards. If this keeps up we will have only liberal politicians in charge. I for one give Carson a pass on this one. He certainly is do much more experienced than Obama and Hiliary


12 posted on 08/29/2014 5:19:50 PM PDT by peekaboo
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To: NCjim

These kind of guys annoy me.


13 posted on 08/29/2014 5:20:35 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: workerbee
Carson is not presidential candidate material.

Yet. But comared to O'DB he is the real deal.

14 posted on 08/29/2014 5:21:33 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: NCjim

No offense to Dr. Carson, but what we don’t need is a guy who has never been elected to any office in his life running for President.


15 posted on 08/29/2014 5:22:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: CatherineofAragon

And we’ll get Jeb or whomever the GOP chooses for us


16 posted on 08/29/2014 5:23:17 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: NCjim

being a poltician with Constitutional Conservative principle is something to be admired while using mush language while trying to be a politician makes one phoney.


17 posted on 08/29/2014 5:23:36 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: peekaboo

No, I didn’t miss it.

Sorry, I’m not interested in someone who doesn’t understand that Jesse Jackson and his ilk are enemies of this country. I’ve had enough of polite Republicans who simper and play nice with them. Jackson is nothing but a professional race pimp, a fraud, and a blackmailer. He wouldn’t pull Carson out of a burning house, but Carson, like so many Repubs, doesn’t get it.


18 posted on 08/29/2014 5:24:27 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)))
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To: CatherineofAragon

He was!


19 posted on 08/29/2014 5:24:34 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: bigbob

Cruz is my choice.


20 posted on 08/29/2014 5:25:00 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)))
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