Carson at the top of the GOP ticket would prove fatal to the Dems, at all levels.
Think for a moment what states would be in play for the GOP that almost never are, if the GOP ran a candidate who could keep most social and economic conservatives in the fold, but peal a mere 20% of African American voters from the Dems? And Carson could pull 30% without hardly trying. I would not be surprised, if Carson gets the nomination, that he might pull closer to 40%. Crazy, I know, but possible when you look at who will most line up with in values with the religious African Americans, but who can in no possible way be confused with a rich white, racist guy. Further, do you think Carson versus Hillary would even be a contest? She might lose 48 states to him.
I’m just going to be honest, I am grateful that Trump is pro-Life and I am convinced that he was genuinely repulsed by the atrocities of PP, which I think he had not followed all that closely. This was my threshold to get to vote for him and I love him on every other point, hands down.
But, to be frank, we have a now secular America who is no longer voting for Christians outright, who say the world is near it’s End Times, though it surely must be, after rejecting our Lord.
I don’t believe Carson could win the presidency by staying in the evangelical lane. Do you, really? Our nation is cursed by our institutional abandonment of God, and we are unlikely to recover under any president, but I don’t believe a candidate who is very noisy about his Christianity can even be elected in this atmosphere. God help us. I am sorry to say any of this, but even I don’t trust our country any more on her national goodness.