[cripplecreek]

Actually I like that idea. He’s pretty moderate but better a conservative leaning moderate than a liberal leaning moderate.

Being one of Detroit’s own certainly can’t hurt plus he can serve as an inspiration to Detroiters about rising above bad situations.

[Lakeshark]

This would be a great start if he decides to get in to politics. Can you imagine the democrat freakout over a somewhat conservative GOP senator who is black?

[cripplecreek]

Ben Carson to replace Levin?



Michigan legislative action thread

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I am beginning/continuing to think that electing “heroes” to Congress may not be the way to go. Being in Congress engages an electee into a competitive game of committee appointments, power sharing, toeing the line, and seeking graft in various ways, and above all, battling, endlessly, opponents who have perfected the art of unabashed jerkballism to a high art. People in Congress have this inevitable soundbite slice of time to make their case to various media outlets and there is profound opposition and attempted smearing is de rigeur by all of them. When the intellectual standard of the other side is set by the likes of Rangel, Pelosi, Biden, and Reid....what is anyone with a brain supposed to say? Arguing with liberals and all that...

Has Sarah Palin been more “effective” (and I leave blank what “effective” may mean to each individual) in or out of office?

I have some high hopes for this new thing that Allen West is starting with the PJTV folks. Time will tell. Mark Levin interviewed him yesterday and it sounded very promising.

I believe Dr. Carson is too nice a guy and would be rapidly co-opted or drowned out.

We would hear his voice more with him outside of Congress, IMHO.

[sodpoodle]

*****Even O spent some time in federal and state legislatures before taking the plunge.*****

Right there tells us why career politicians should be culled out and term limited.

How many founding fathers were career politicians?

What about ‘for the people & by the people’.

Proving your credentials of citizenship and accomplishment outside of a political career should be the first conservative requirement.

[erlayman]

Dr. Carson seems more interested in leaving the options open for a presidential run ; at the least, there is no doubt he will at least be considered for a VP position.

[stayathomemom]

My husband got an email at work yesterday inviting staff at U Hospital (U Mich) to this lecture next week: The 2013 AOA Visiting Professor and Invited Lecturer is Benjamin Carson, M.D., Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, whose talk is entitled, "Should Doctors Confine Themselves to Medicine?". He and his conservative buddies are very excited about going.

[Beagle8U]

First off he is a demonrat, and he is far from being a conservative. He is to the left of Gov Chrispy Cream NJ or Mutt Romney.

[RedBallJet]

Miller-Carson!

[Darren McCarty]

I can’t vote for him in a primary. Moving back here after decades out of state is too much like carpetbagging.