Posted on 11/29/2014 6:06:51 AM PST by Kaslin
You named a Congressman, a Senator, and a career politician/Governor, Carson should try something like that first before running for leader of the free world as his starting point.
Howard Dean’s long political career:
“In 1982, he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, where he remained until being elected lieutenant governor in 1986. Both were part-time positions which enabled him to continue practicing medicine. Dean won re-election as Lieutenant Governor in 1988 and 1990.
On August 14, 1991, Dean was examining a patient when he received word that Governor Richard A. Snelling had died of sudden cardiac arrest. Dean assumed the office, which he called the “greatest job in Vermont.” He was subsequently elected to five two-year terms in his own right, making him the longest-serving governor in Vermont’s history. From 1994 to 1995, Dean was the chairman of the National Governors Association.”
After decades in elective office, Dean ran for President in 2004, and in 2005 became the DNC chairman.
The ONLY way you can disarm anyone is, if they allow it..
are law abiding, docile, able to be manipulated, and/or they are cowards..
others will be armed even if illegal..
I think you misunderstand me. I’m not saying doctors haven’t gotten involved in politics.
I’ve just never seen a random surgeon, or anybody else, touted as a viable presidential candidate after a few uplifting speeches.
Not that I’m a huge fan of a long career in public service as a necessary credential for presidents.
Arguably one of the few presidents with less such experience than Obama was ... A. Lincoln. Who turned out to be a pretty darn effective leader.
So NATO is sending troops to engage Russians in Ukraine? do you have a source for that?
No, seriously... it absolutely did not follow what we were talking about.
The need to avoid risk and surprises at all costs is simply dead man walking....from Shawshank....get busy living or get busy dying.
Thank you for the clarification, but I don’t see how wanting some actual legislative experience and/or a voting record of some kind equates to avoiding “risks and surprises at all costs.” It simply doesn’t, particularly in Carson’s case when he has already made comments regarding the 2nd Amendment that should give one pause.
Lincoln is supposed to have started as a rail splitter which is pretty close to the bottom I woud say but he is not the one I would hold up as a role model regardless of how many call him our greatest president.
Carson is probably a pretty nice guy, but he’s really squishy on the 2nd Amendment. Which has pretty much become my litmus test for politicians.
IMHO, he’s a no-go unless there just isn’t anyone else.
Old Student
It’s not that he’s black, I couldn’t care less that he’s black. I like him for other reasons, among which is that I’ve met him and he and I have more in common than you know.
Don’t assume so much.
I wasn’t questioning the “pause” on the 2A issues - although some on here have way over stated his position on that. I simply reject this whole notion of absolutely positively needing political experience.
I’m sure you thought you knew what you were getting with GWB. How did those surprises work out for ya?
I have too! Well, only one occasion, up north of Nashville, in Portland, TN. I didn’t meet his wife, but his mother was with him. What a piece of work she was! Not nice at all.
But him...he was really great, personable, kind, lots of good adjectives.
You can see that behavior continuing in the current process -- there are a lot of ideological favorite candidates early on who gradually drop out as they lose primaries and eventually a big name candidate gets the nomination -- but each voter only votes once (in his or her own state's primary).
Some voters go with their ideological soul mates, others make a more pragmatic choice. If the system is ever retooled, some kind of run-off might be included so that voters get a chance to decide which of the (just possibly) electable candidates they want once the obviously unelectable alternatives have been eliminated.
Good for you, but his attitude on guns is a deal breaker for me.
Don’t assume so much.
What assumptions?
your focus is too narrow.....way to narrow
Your OPINION is noted and dismissed.
That it had anything to do with him being black.
His comment on guns was a deal breaker for me too, but I still have great hopes for him, perhaps as SG??
A classic example of conservatives wasting time, on something which is out of the question, and not going to happen. Period.
So as a first step in narrowing the field down from 20 to 10, I suggest Carson get out. He’s a very nice man, but will NOT be the GOP’s nominee.
In case anybody can’t figure it out, he is following the Buchanan, Palin media career model, e.g. threaten to be a candidate, sell books and earn speaking fees.
What an idiotic thing to post, comparing a Governor who was the GOP vice presidential candidate in 2008 and who has 20 years in elective politics and who has held many elected offices and has never run for president, with two people who are fake politicians that want to start at president for their first election.
I’m sorry you had an unfortunate experience with her. I met her once, and all was well. She certainly inspired him to excel.
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