Posted on 11/29/2014 6:06:51 AM PST by Kaslin
He might be a brilliant guy and a fantastic surgeon, but he hasn’t demonstrated the ability to run a town council, much less the United States. I would like to see some executive experience at a state level before he runs for president.
I agree wholeheartedly. Were it not for the color of his skin, he’d be ignored. As a conservative, the first thing I look at when people oooo and ahhhhh about a black Republican is just exactly what is all the fuss about.
Frankly, before the election, there were some articles of his with which I highly disagreed regarding voting for go-along, get-along RINOism, and I stated such. Even after finally relenting to SOME deference re: Republican vs. Democrat in any election, I still harbor a deep distrust.
This distrust goes all the way back to Colin Powell, the darling of Republicans in the 90s and 00s - until Obama. THEN we saw his true colors.
Color alone does not a candidate make - not ever. That’s how we got Obama.
I believe he is FOR more gun control and if that is correct, he’s definitely off my list of prospectives.
Great minds think alike don’t they?
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We do don’t we?
“You are wrong, he just does not want guns in the inner cities.....”
The problem with that is if my home is “in the inner city” I have just as much right to protect myself and my family as any one in any other area.
I can’t support anyone who doesn’t have a track record of voting on issues that are important to conservatives. He should’ve run at least for HOR this time around. At this juncture he’s a great possibility to be Surgeon General.
Dr Ben Carson is a Great American and deserving of serious consideration for POTUS. He has a voice and message America needs to hear.
Yeah, an all-around shallow piece.
Carson should be welcome as a soldier to the cause, but if he insists on seating himself in the cockpit of a fighter plane he’s not qualified to fly, it is right that folks stand up and intercede.
Too many ill-qualified, unconservative (his position on amnesty disqualifies him on that count alone), vanity candidates get lured into GOP presidential primary runs—for the certain benefit of the GOPe. Carson is one of those, he attracts conservatives who are overeager to support him in an inappropriate role as a means of disproving the racism charge that gets thrown at all of us.
Yes. The last couple of times I’ve seen him interviewed, he seemed to be hesitant to stand firm. He was hedging what he was saying, showing, IMHO, weakness. I think, as fine a man as he seems to be, he is too wishy washy.
The last thing the country needs is for more lost-cause candidates to splinter the conservative vote. The GOP doesn’t need him up there on the GOP primary stage doing just that in order to show liberals how ‘inclusive’ we are.
And that's where the train comes off the rails.
So true, and this is why I don't really like those "scorecards" by American Conservative Union, etc - because there's no weighting built in to them. And then there's more than just issues. There's the public relations issue. For example, McCain and Graham are not good conservatives, but they are far more awful for the anti conservative anti Tea Party voice they support.
yeah, that gun control issue is a blind spot for him.
Actually, it’s a blind spot for a lot of doctors and a lot of cops who are otherwise pretty conservative. They see guns do bad things all the time, so they are reflexively pro gun control without thinking it through.
BTW, that’s not an excuse - just an observation
I see. Amazing that some people think like that and still consider themselves conservatives. Probably think some guns are bad and others are good too, and that the police are our friends.
He is an intelligent man who is bringing a lot of thoughtful debate to the fore front and hopefully he is getting the attention of some black voters. He will surely find a niche in which he can bring some improvements to the country but, he is not a person I can see as POTUS.
We’re killing ourself with this “political experience” thing. It’s been my observation that the longer you are in office, any office, the more isolated from reality you are.
Some people can lead and some cannot. How long they’ve run “a city council” is hardly an issue. Did Reagan run a city council? His first office was a Governor of California, which would be the same as being President of most of the world’s countries.
Talent, not length of government service, is the deal. Now, does Carson have that talent? Probably not, but I’ll not fall prey to the knee jerk assumption you have to work your way up from “dogcatcher” step by step. No President ever started anywhere near the bottom.
Been there, done that.
As long as he defunds and fires all of the depts. now dedicated to considering "gun violence" a medical situation for doctors to inquire about, etc.
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