Posted on 11/23/2014 12:49:38 PM PST by i88schwartz
On Sunday's broadcast of ABC's This Week, there was a consensus moment between former President Bush's chief re-election strategist Matthew Dowd and Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of the liberal magazine The Nation: Dr. Ben Carson should run for president.
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Carson may well be the conservative spoiler in the 2016 Presidential election, thus guaranteeing a Bush nomination.
So, why are liberals supporting Carson?
Have these two been hired by Hillary’s campaign yet?
Carson collected money for well over a month for his PAC to support Republicans for office.
He was already trampled in his debut. Granted, he had a tough time getting a word in edgewise. But what he did get in sounded an awful lot like compromise and working together. He's no Ted Cruz. He's no Jeff Sessions. He's no Mike Lee. And he has no track record to prove he's not a phony.
If his intention was to run for Pres, and now it's obvious it was, he should've at least run for HOR this time around, just to see how he'd hold up. Right now, he looks like an "attractive distractor" that the liberal mafia will prop up to divert conservative votes from those who are real constitutional conservatives.
JMHO
Sorry Ben...go write a book or something.
He would have to be conservative, first.
He ain't.
/johnny
The problem with a guy like Carson, is that he is another guy we know very little about. Yes, he has produced some great sound bytes which I agree with. There are things about him I like. I don’t know enough. I certainly would not endorse him for president.
I want a guy with a proven track record. I want a guy with excellent values, a Conservative at heart. If something comes up, he instantly knows if it has merit in accordance with Conservative principles. He won’t have to give it some thought, although it might be best to address it at another time. In his heart he will already see warning signs.
Then it is not enough to be Conservative. You must be able to manage a team. You need a proven executive experience.
I look back at an excellent example of us not knowing enough about a guy. There was a Black man that I head seen on FoxNews. The sound bites I had listened to sounded great. I really liked the guy.
They they lofted him to the head of the RNC.
Michael Steele was his name. He turned out not to be anything like what I thought he was.
We need to be careful about wasting our time on people we barely know.
We need to look honestly at their actions. If there’s something they have done that goes way way way outside the loop of what Conservatives approve of, it’s a tell-tale sign they’ll do it again, and again, and again.
Folks, as a group we need to be more discerning. Think with your head and not your heart.
He was also nice enough to become a republican this month after leaving the party in solidarity with President Clinton in the 1990s.
Yes, and receive votes by that same color.
mccain, romney, ...
carson would fit right in (ie yet another loser candidate)
I don’t know what Huck would say about Carson’s Seventh Day Adventist beliefs, but if he condemned them he would be echoing the sentiments of many Christians. In addition to all sorts of non-essential kookiness, at its core, Seventh Day Adventism is a works-based heresy. Americans don’t know Ellen G. White today, but if he becomes a serious candidate they will.
If venden Huevel is for it...it’s a bad idea.
As has been mentioned..he’s too anti-2nd amendment for my taste.
And that’s important, because we are electing a National Pastor after all.....
(bang head)
uh, no, there’s absolutely ZERO applicable analogy to McCain and Romney. Analogy shouldn’t be tried at home.....
Well he has, and I’m sure he will again, and I’m sure being a candidate will help sales.
It may not matter to YOU, but it will to MANY. Why alienate them?
Because we shouldn’t pander to ignorant single issue voters.
Who said they are single issue? You made that up.
Either you are Adventist or you don’t know much of anything about it. Some of their ideas are as nutty as Mormonism.
By the way, before my mother retired, she knew Ben Carson personally through her work. I like him a lot and appreciate him being nice to my mother, but I do not think he’s a good choice. For many, Huckabee is too religious (for me he’s too liberal), when in truth he’s a Southern Baptist on the mushy mega-church side of things. He’s hardly a firebrand. In comparison to Ben Carson’s Adventism, Huckabee’s beliefs would look near agnostic.
Of course they think he should run—he’s a fringe, vanity candidate who would help to splinter the conservative vote.
Because he’s not actually serious about holding office.
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