Since people are so angry and fed up with our government, it makes sense that they want a president who is not a politician.
How much worse could Ben Carson be than the recent presidents we’ve had?
Our last great president, Ronald Reagan, spent most of his life as an actor. And he wasn’t even a great actor.
Brain surgery is harder than acting, and Ben Carson was one of our greatest brain surgeons.
Running for the presidency is hard, too, especially if you don’t have millions of dollars flowing into your coffers from corporate fat cats and the media virtually ignores you while covering one of your opponents night and day, yet Ben Carson has done a great job of building support. As has Carly Fiorina.
Carson/Fiorina 2016
The Dem, any DEM, would win in a landslide !
You forgot something....
Reagan did not go from acting straight to president.
He was a union official, the got elected governor of California twice, before running for president.
I hope Alzheimer’s is not closing in.
I think that would be lose/lose.
You’re missing a few things. First Reagan was a two term governor of California before becoming president. Carson has zero elected office experience and I know of no executive experience of any kind that he has, although he may have some I don’t know of.
Also Reagan himself said that having been an actor was a great advantage because he could play the role, he had decades of public speaking experience, a great voice and a commanding presence, he even said that he could not imagine how someone who had NOT been an actor could do the job. Can you imagine Dr. Carson saying he could not imagine how someone who had NOT been a neurosurgeon could do the job?
The question is not whether it is harder to be a neurosurgeon than an actor, to Dr. Carson it may be much easier to be a neurosurgeon while most actors would have zero chance of ever being a neurosurgeon. The point is that acting experience makes it much easier to deliver a state of the union message and easier to do a lot of things a president must do. I have a hard time believing that experience as a neurosurgeon is a great advantage to a president.
Being exceptionally good at an extremely difficult specialty does not necessarily mean you are great at other things. I have seen too many people who are great at a specialty but unimpressive otherwise. In short I have the utmost respect for Dr. Carson but I have seen little evidence to indicate that he would be a competent president.