Posted on 12/03/2014 10:29:38 AM PST by rktman
It was a dreary day in Washington and, in the minds of the six people gathered in the Bullfinch room in the bowels of the Grand Hyatt hotel on H Street, it has been a dreary six years for the country. This week, they are making plans to change that.
They are the friends and associates of Ben Carson, the pediatric neurosurgeon with a Horatio Alger story that has captured the hearts of conservatives, and who now says he might run for president. That announcement would come in just six months, on May 1. As Carson travels the country delivering speeches — in Kentucky on Tuesday, in Philadelphia on Wednesday — his confidants are interviewing a bevy of people, 35 in all, who in a matter of months may be staffing his presidential campaign, in every position from chief of staff to body man.
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nope
Yep, the gun thing isn’t going to work out for him I fear. As I’ve said on other threads, I believe he’d be an obvious choice for Surgeon General though.
Could be. Resident? No.
” Ben Carson, the pediatric neurosurgeon”
Ben Carson, the pedantic neurosurgeon
Fixed it. He has NO chance .
I wish he’d go through a few classes over at Gunsite so he’d have a clue what he is talking about.
Do it.
Let’s see how you do...
Not to cast doubt but can the good Doctor be “gotten to” by any seriously corrupting influence? It’s not him that worries me so much as the fact that there are so many ways to be corrupted one way or another, especially if the nominee has never really been a major political force. OR, if the next POTUS must be a conservative black man such as Dr. Carson, could he be most effective as a non-career politician with none of the baggage associated with being a career politician?
Yawn. Wake me when a conservative enters the race.
He’s very admirable but not presidential material, obviously.
Last week he said something about training the police to shoot at the legs of perpetrators and that induced a heavy sigh and severe eye roll from these parts. Surgeon General, OK.
Does Dr. Carson believe he is a better candidate than Senator Cruz to whom he could otherwise throw his excellent support?
In this process we are shoppers looking for the best president. We should encourage everyone to apply. The larger the pool of applicants, the better our chances of finding a good one.
If he were white, he wouldn’t even be considered.
This guy isn’t a serious candidate for president, why should we waste time on every goof ball that wants to elevate his profile?
If the GOP runs another dozen candidates, each trying to out-conservative the others, then the vote in the primaries will be spread thin and the establishment will be able to force Jeb or Christie down our throats. If Carson wants to do this country a favor then he needs to stay out of a race he has zero chance of winning and support a conservative candidate who can.
Another Ivy Leaguer.
Lord, please give us a break from Ivy Leaguers this cycle.
28 straight years is enough.
He is outside of the mold of characters we usually send to Washington. More of a citizen/president. That might be exactly what we need. He doesn't look like the type that would be corrupted by fortune or fame.
He is not on my list either, but maybe we need to be more careful in separating what is valuable from what is worthless.
He is outside what mold, having some sort of experience or talent, or knowledge?
A retired doctor that wants to enter politics and start with being President of the United States of America?
We don’t need to let these goofballs waste our time and muddy up our primary as we try to get a conservative through the process.
Doesn't it matter who the Dims run?
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