Ben says all the right things and he seems to have all the right background/history ... plus he’s black.
I seem to remember a couple three columns by him regarding how we conservatives have to go-along-get-along with the GOPe so that the GOPe can win in 2014/16 and make things all better (like they did back when they were in power).....NCLB, Prescription Medicare, DHS, TSA, NSA programs, CIA programs et al.
Frankly, I think because he is black is why many people overlook things like this. That’s how we got Obama - no one actually listened to the words he’d been spouting - at least not in the national media anyway.
I won’t vote for him. He’s a ‘deal-maker’.
Where has he even been a city councilman, mayor or county supervisor? You don’t throw someone with absolutely no government experience into the top spot, I don’t care how smart, charismatic or wonderful they might be. Presidents are governors, senators, generals or at least congressmen or cabinet secretaries. We have never placed a complete neophyte in there and when we come close to it (Barack Obama) disaster strikes. For instance, Ted Cruz, although a freshman senator, was the longest serving solicitor general of Texas in history and has forgotten more about constitutional law than Mr. Obama ever knew. Sarah Palin was on the city council, then mayor (and was president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors), state energy chairwoman, then governor.