Posted on 10/26/2015 12:49:37 PM PDT by Signalman
I have all the respect in the world for Ben Carson. For only the second time in American politics, we would have a president who made his name outside of politics prior to his election if he won. (The first, for trivia fans, is Herbert Hoover as an engineer). He is humble, virtuous, honest, reliable, committed. But there is no way on Earth that he could defeat Hillary Clinton or even stand up to her in a debate.
Hillary would have him for lunch.
Carson combines the limited knowledge of government and budgeting of Sarah Palin with the soft voice of John McCain. Just as Obama ran all over McCain in the debates, so would Hillary run over Carson. But a lot worse.
On top of that, the Hillary Clinton who arrogates to herself the credit for OKing the raid that killed bin Laden is going to make mincemeat of Carson for his statement that he would not have sent troops to Afghanistan to pursue the Taliban after 9-11. Instead, Carson said in the first debate, he would have sought to end our dependence on foreign oil.
Ending our dependence on foreign oil is key and we are just a few years away from achieving total energy independence (except for having to continue to rely on imports from Canada and Mexico). But it will have taken twenty years. It was no substitute for an invasion that knocked al Qaeda back on its heels, forced it into the mountains, and toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan. Don’t confuse the current muddled situation in Afghanistan for the clear cut victory we scored in 2002. Right after 9/11, everybody thought that we would be hit again, probably within a few weeks. It didn’t happen because Bush wasn’t Carson and sent in troops (while concluding a savvy coalition with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan).
Carson’s reticence to use troops even after 9-11, makes one wonder when he would send in troops. Is he another Rand Paul who won’t act to protect us because he fears foreign involvement? By all accounts, we should be frightened by Carson’s rise in the polls.
While many don’t like Donald Trump, nobody doubts that he would be a strong opponent to Hillary in a campaign and in debates or that he would be a strong leader as president. He brings in new voters that otherwise wouldn’t have voted, just as Perot did.
But don’t go for Carson!
LOL, Nice try. But the spin won't hold.
He said he wouldn't PICK a fight with her. But when she's in his way, and when she starts slinging her crap at him, he WILL fight back. Three months ago he called her a criminal who shouldn't be allowed to run for President at all. So dream on, concerntroll.
Right, but I think he didn't even serve a full term as Governor before the Dhims nominated him for POTUS. His true claims to fame pre-POTUS seem to have been his academic publications and his presidency of Princeton, not his extremely brief political career.
>> I ran across a quote from Calvin Coolidge about Herbert Hoover: "That man has offered me unsolicited advice for the past six years, all of it bad." <<
Right again. The bad blood between Coolidge and Hoover seems to be a fact that has escaped most folks, even those with a strong interest in early 20th century American history.
And by the way, I think the nation would have been at least 200% better off if Coolidge had run for re-election and won in 1928. But he was overly respectful of George Washington's two-term precedent. Too bad.
Spin? Not from me. He said it himself. If you think I’ve got something against him, though, you are mistaken.
There’s a 50 percent chance he’s right; he’s wrong. In a debate, the two might possibly battle to checkmate. Neither winning nor losing. Rather a bit like the cackles first debate this go round. If Dr. Carson debated her on the matter of his profession...brains and how they work...he stands a much better chance of clearing the board.
Coolidge was a conservative. Hoover was a Progressive.
>> If Coolidge had been re-elected, he would have died in office (he died on Jan. 5, 1933)...which would have given the US its first American Indian President <<
Shucks! Too bad that guy didn’t have a chance to serve, because then Elizabeth Warren would never be able to claim the honor of being the first aboriginal POTUS!
I made a mistake in my last post—the VP I was thinking of served under Hoover: Charles Curtis, who was one-quarter Kaw Indian.
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