“Ben Carson for President”
Huzzah.
And the bat-eared-b*stard for prison.
Go Ben, go!
Let’s replace our quota baby president with one who actually has talent and intelligence.
I wonder if he was pressured to leave?
Yes... Herman Cain should be a lesson to us all. These days, it's not good enough to be smart, and have good ideas... you also must be a Saint, and an "every-day man", and have the communication ability of Reagan.
It's a tough gig.
Oh.... you also CAN'T be rich, or have ever treated your dog like... um... a dog!
Oh, I’m sure Gloria Allred will soon be on TV featuring woman after woman who have had affairs with Dr. Carson or been abused by him or had their feelings hurt when he didn’t glance their way at some function or another. The enemy will find a way to drag his name through the dirt and his political aspirations won’t survive. Just watch. :o(
based on one speech?? Are you people retarded?
We could do a lot worse than Ben Carson. In fact, we already have.
While Dr. Carson’s proposals at the prayer breakfast probably need to be thought out a little more, I applaud him for speaking truth to power like that. I hope he’ll see his role as the voice of conscious asking “Why are you doing things this way and not that way” and stay out of the cesspool of electoral politics. He’s too good a man for that.
I like Dr. Carson. If anything, I wish our lame ass pubbies would listen when he says to stand up to the bullies. That is what the leftists are, and our side reacts by whimpering and running away like weenies.
Nobody respects people who are too cowardly to stand up and be heard.
Can we be committed to not joining liberal rags when they come out and trash this guy? I was never so disgusted as when I witnessed members of this forum joining the likes of Politico while they savaged our GOP Presidential candidates like Cain, Bachmann and Perry. Freepers were actually joining the Politico with statements like: “Yep, Bachmann’s just not ready for prime time!”
Can we please stop letting the Left define our people? Lets try something that the Dems always do: Defend their candidates! You almost never see Democrats piling on their people. Maybe this is one time we can learn something from the Left.
No he doesn't. Like all politicians judge them by what they do not what they say today. Carson has been a loudmothed hard line gun control advocate for many years and is no friend of conservatives. Now because he suddenly makes a few conservative noises, the gullible strap on their knee pads. A few words doesn't mean he's a conservative and it especially doen't mean that he can be trusted
I’m really mixed on this. I will look forward to having Dr. Carson articulating conservative values, but I saw (the results of) his work at Hopkins and hate to see that end. We all do reach a certain point where our lives take another direction and we must trust that the children who went to Hopkins will find that he’s brought up superior a generation of equally competent successors to continue his work.
Some of the negatives expressed above in this thread warrant further exposition. That said, I offer this piece I penned in 2009 for general discussion.
I fear that many of our problems today stem from the fact that far too many of our legislators are LAWYERS. Further, I believe that we need more DOCTORS – and engineers, accountants, shop-keepers, small business owners, etc. in those positions – and NO LAYWERS!!
Lawyers as legislators pose a very, very serious problem for an ostensibly free people: They LOVE making laws and the more complex and incomprehensible the better. Think about it: In the private sector – to which many of them return (hopefully in HUGE NUMBERS IN 2010!!) – they, and their buds who remain behind in the private sector, earn their often obscene incomes (in addition to the obscenely generous, COLA congressional pensions and tax subsidized HEALTH CARE!) wading through that Byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations they, themselves, constructed. It’s a process that prompted Otto von Bismarck to remark that “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” Can I get an “AMEN?”
While there ARE exceptions (Bill Frist toward the end of his term, Phil Gingrey — who strays from time to time) my rule that physicians and engineers make better legislators than most lawyers generally holds true. I attribute that to the fact that doctors and engineers are trained in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD and rely more on FACTS and EMPIRICAL DATA for their decisions. Ron Paul (have to give the anti-Paul people something to rant about!), Larry McDonald, Paul Broun, John Linder, Tom Price are (or were) all doctors. I’m sure you can think of other examples/exceptions. The poster boy for the exceptions is “Screamin’ Howard Dean, MD.
Unfortunately, far too many of these guys are ATTORNEYS.
Our late friend and author, composer, conductor, Nashville music producer, lover of Bach, pianist and all-around Renaissance man, Tupper Saussy, who somehow dodged the family tradition of becoming one, traced the term “attorney” back to the Sanscrit word “torwa.” And what does “torwa” mean? TO TWIST! And twist they do. Unfortunately, it’s not in the wind.
While SOME of these attorney-legislators are conservatives, their law school moot court training forced them to argue BOTH SIDES OF THE SAME CASE. I rather suspect that experience allows them to rationalize voting against the Constitution when expediency and/or their political survival/favor with their party leadership dictates. It is textbook moral relativism and we all pay for their perfidy.
Let me tie that attorney-legislator problem into the current health care debate: I might have missed it but I don’t believe there was one mention of TORT REFORM from the lawyers who cobbled together that 1,000+ page monstrosity now dividing the nation.
I’ll give you three guesses as to why — and the last two don’t count!
And here’s something to think about for the primary elections to the 2010 general election: If the attorney-legislator representing your district does not pass muster at www.gradegov.com, if you can, find a NON-LAWYER for whom to vote after grilling him on the first principles near and dear to those who cherish freedom and the Constitution.
Too hard, say you?
No. SLAVERY is hard.
The Destroyer to come will speak with a sweetened tongue, but will destroy many through peace. Obozo does not posses a sweetened tongue. Might Dr. Carson?
I'll wait too, but if he turns out to be a true Conservative, you can bet the GOP elite will do everything they can to demonize him.
Dr. Benjamin Carson's speech at prayer breakfast
That links the video. It's just over 27 minutes long. It's dynamite!
I really like Carson but he’ll have to queue up behind Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who are the best we have, bar none. They are the immediate future of the conservative movement and the heirs of Reaganism. They also make Obama look like he’s in grade school.
Dr. Benjamin Carson Epic Full Speech at National Prayer Breakfast Attacks Obama's Policies! (2/7/13)
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He can count on my vote.
Before Monday, we will know more about this man than we know about Obama. We will know how many times he’s been sued, we will know how many of his patients didn’t survive, how many drug company reps he slept with and there will be a dose of Allred thrown in there, just in case.