Posted on 12/22/2014 8:09:24 AM PST by Maelstorm
INDIANAPOLIS — A conservative think tank recently sent Ben Carson, a potential presidential candidate and fierce critic of the federal health care overhaul, a series of messages to post on Twitter during the grilling in the House of Jonathan Gruber, the M.I.T. economist who advised the Obama administration.
Mr. Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, has set off a prairie fire of rank-and-file conservatives urging him to run for the Republican nomination. He liked the think tank’s idea, but he knows that he excites supporters because he is an unscripted outsider. So he wrote his own Twitter posts, including, “Why was it necessary to disrupt entire medical system to take care of the needs of 15% of the people?”
With former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida moving closer to declaring his candidacy, and the Republican establishment determined not to repeat the mistakes of the lengthy nominating fight of 2012, the rise of Mr. Carson suggests the best-laid plans of the party for 2016 may not go as smoothly as desired.
Even as Mr. Bush began to quietly line up donors, and the attention of the news media turned last week to policy disputes over Cuba between two other potential high-profile contenders, Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, Mr. Carson was riding an under-the-radar groundswell.
In Iowa, which holds the first voting for nominees, a local chairman or chairwoman has been recruited in all 99 counties, something no other potential candidate can claim. A national committee to draft Mr. Carson into the race, Run Ben Run, has raised more money than the high-profile outfit urging voters to get “Ready for Hillary.”
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I’d like to see Ben Carson run for mayor of Detroit.
He’s already a hometown hero with schools named after him. As mayor he could bring the inspiration and spirituality to the people that they’re lacking now. He could also welcome even more GOP reforms to the city instead of fighting them all the way.
The Pali's are actually Jordanians.
There are currently still over 300,000 Pali "refugee's" living in refugee camps in Jordan.
The Arab world doesn't actually want the Pali's, except to use them as a "source" for animosity against Israel.
I’d say GOP unity is more likely to be upset by Jeb Bush.
“If the GOPe thinks they can avoid a messy primary by anointing the squish Jeb Bush they are irredeemably stupid.”
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Well, the GOPe faction of the Ruling Elite and the Ruling Elite handmaidens in the media, are doing all they can to encourage MULTIPLE (the more the merrier from their perspective) conservatives and faux conservatives to run. It’s the standard split the conservative vote strategy and tactics.
We can DEFEAT such “split the vote” strategy THIS TIME AROUND if we coalesce around Ted Cruz early. Cruz is clearly the potential candidate the RINOs & ‘RATS fear the most. Their fear of Ted Cruz is palpable.
TIME is saying damn that Ben Carson because we need to get Jeb nominated so he can be fodder to Hillary. Yes, the liberal media trying to pick our candidate again.
If someone isn’t sure of their position on the 2nd amendment, then they ain’t the guy! Dr. Ben ain’t the guy. Surgeon General maybe (like we even need one) but not potus material. Sorry. No I’m not. Besides which, running as an Uncle Tom will NOT swing the black vote to him.
I don’t think he’ll run. A proud and intelligent man as he is has got to realize what the rest of us can see, and that he’s not ready to run for president. If he’s serious about politics he needs to run for an elected office and gain some experience actually governing.
Cruz for me. I don’t foresee him making any big mistakes.
No, his views are still evolving and he doesn’t seem to “get” the 2nd amendment at all.
People whose views are changing should not be considered Presidential material.
This is why I have no hope for the conservative movement. No candidate will ever be GOOD ENOUGH for many “true conservatives”. We cannot unite around anyone - there is always something the potential candidate is deficient in.
I thought one of the biggest viewpoints among conservatives is that we were sick of professional politicians.
Ironically, that seems to be the biggest “difficiency” criticism of Dr. Carson. Couldn’t an educated person who has respect for the Constitution and for our American values, who is a person of good moral character - could not that person make a good president without having been a lawyer or a professional politician?
Dr Carson was not a “community activist” - he was a highly trained doctor who also happened to head up a medical department of a major hospital - he HAS HAD some real world experience.
I don’t know if he is a good orator/debater and I don’t know what will happen to him in the primaries, but doesn’t he have the right to make his case and go for it?
And, it’s interesting to me that one poster on this thread made the case that Dr Carson’s running will only divide the GOP vote and help Jeb Bush win the nomination - isn’t that the same argument that some Freepers poo-pooed who refused vote for Romney?
I am for Ted Cruz, his beliefs aren’t “evolving”
Cruz 100%
Screw the GOP
The NYT promoting Carson?
I’d be willing to bet they did the same thing with The Pizza Guy in 2011
They’ve, the Ben Carson PAC, already called me. Just a few days after the November election. I told them I liked him but it was too early for me to start passing out money for the 2016 elections.
Per usual, he’s a GOPe plant to fracture the conservative vote. This is a Bush machine operation through and through, taking advantage of Carson’s ego and ambitions, and his handlers’ ambitions and greed.
Please, Freepers, see through this this time!
I’m inclined to support Dr. Carson but I know what you mean. Conservatives are often their own worse enemies plus we have a lot of people still pining for Palin etc. We’d be blessed to have someone like Carson run. That our politics would exclude individuals like him shows how broken the system really is.
I don’t especially care for Carson. But if he ran third party against Christie or Bush, I would vote for him.
Agreed, but Carson would make a good running mate.
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