[dforest]

I like Ben, but he is not ready to be President.

[BenLurkin]

I agree 100%

Likable, sure. But President? No way!

[nopardons]

Carson may or may not be a "good guy", but he has absolutely NO business running for president!

being a brain surgeon won't help Ben facing down Putin...unless he is going to do an operation on him.

[From The Deer Stand]

If Obama can be president so can the guy who does my oil changes.

[silverleaf]

In this world and right now, in this country, I don’t want a president who is a nice man

I want an SOB

I want an SOB who will say and do the things I fantasize about doing to the idiots corruptiicrats liars ts and purely evil scum who have had free rein for 7 years. We have an entire US political party in full support of baby butchering. We do not need a nice man to try to reason with them.

I don’t want a nice man who drinks tea with the Iranians while knowing they have evil fanatic lying leaders ... Then goes back to their embassy and sends racist cables and laughs about what an idiot we elected.... Again

Ditto with North Korea

I don’t think Putin China or ISIS will be impressed by a nice man
Nor the Mexican narcocracy

I don’t think the US democrat party can be contained by a nice man. That’s like sending a sheep to negotiate with the wolves.

I want an SOB
But this time I want my SOB

Adios Yeb and welcome to the next presidential cabinet Dr Carson

[HerrBlucher]

Ditto, Putin would pwn his arse easy.

[jwalsh07]

Why not?

[EveningStar]

The writer does not say that Carson can be elected or that he's qualified to be President. His main point is just that Carson is the only declared presidential candidate whose favorability rating is higher than his unfavorability rating. That's pretty much it.

[Bob434]

do you like that he is anti-gun and pro abortion in some cases?

his liberal views:

Make alternative fuels, not war:

Whether America’s ensuing steps into war in Afghanistan and Iraq will be seen as positive or negative remains to be seen, but I can’t help thinking there may have been a better way to react that would not have cost us so many lives and financial capital. I believe that if the president had seized the moment and declared that we would become petroleum independent within the next ten years as part of our effort to strip terrorism of its resources, that business, industry, academia, and everyone else would have been foursquare behind him, and we would have been much further ahead in the fight against terrorism than we are today...an enormous number of jobs likely would have been created in the process of switching over to a new energy source, and Wall Street would have been booming; third, the environmentalists would have been ecstatic; and fourth, but most importantly, the terrorists would have been deprived of much needed funding, which would have gradually strangled their efforts. (From America the Beautiful.)

Stop the deportations:

Even today we exploit our fellow human beings for work. Is it moral for us, for example, to take advantage of cheap labor from illegal immigrants while denying them citizenship? I’m sure you can tell from the way I phrased the question that I believe we have taken the moral low road on this issue. Some segments of our economy would virtually collapse without these undocumented workers—we all know that—yet we continue to harass and deport many individuals who are simply seeking a better life for themselves and their families. (From his 2012 book, America the Beautiful.)

Elizabeth Warren was right about everything:

The stock market crash of 1929 exacted a severe toll on the people of our nation and our legislators realized, in hindsight, that some of our banking and investment policies had contributed to the crash. Several laws were crafted, including the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking activities. Sixty to seventy years later we forgot about many of the horrors of those difficult financial times as well as the reasons why we imposed appropriate regulation on speculative financial activity involving private resources. (From One Nation

People don’t kill people, handguns kill people:

I realize that some feel the United States and other world powers with nuclear weapons have no right to declare that others cannot have them. On the surface this seems like a fair argument, but can you imagine how many deaths would occur if everyone were given a handgun? Perhaps it would be fair to give everyone a handgun, but it certainly would not be wise. (From America the Beautiful.)

Find more at (it’s a liberal website I believe)

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/ben-carson-liberal-views-2016

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Precisely. Carson appears to be out of his league, especially since Trump took the stage. I will say again, Trump has been through the wringer and he never blinked. America first is 30 years overdo.

[Ancesthntr]

“ I like Ben, but he is not ready to be President”

Agreed. Just because I would love to have a beer with the guy and tal about pretty much anything doesn’t mean that I think that he is the best qualified candidate. Of course, the opposite is not necessarily true - each candidate has to be evaluated on their merits...one of which is not “could I be this guy’s friend.”

[RipSawyer]

“I like Ben, but he is not ready to be President.”

Yep, I would be honored to meet him and I like to listen to him but he is a great neurosurgeon, a specialty so difficult that only a fraction of one percent of people have any business attempting it. That DOES NOT indicate that he should be president. We need a generalist, not a specialist.