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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.

Whenever anyone has been brave enough to articulate the Christian view, in a tone of compassion and love, not judgmental, but with firmness of convictions, and do so calmly and consistently, the world is drawn to it. The media is not. Hollywood is not. The political class are not. Yet, somehow, people are drawn to the light. We get to listening to the chattering class and the media, and they don't let you think that hardly anyone believes anymore. But they do, God is constantly working in people's lives and hearts in ways you and I don't fathom.

Secondly, I do not see any way that a guy with as much common sense as Dr. Carson, who is so calm and measured in the face of criticism, whose positions will keep social and economic conservatives in the fold, whose tone will keep social moderates in the fold, and will surely be able to get 85% or 90% of the GOP vote, could possibly lose the national election. Why? Because he will peal 30% of the African American vote at least off the Democratic coalition. This would be absolutely devastating to the Democratic coalition that they have pieced together and have taken for granted for over 50 years. Dr Carson at the top of the GOP ticket would give the Democrats a beat down in almost every state. Senate elections that were thought to be lean Dem would suddenly be in play, and Hillary would lose 47 states to Dr. Carson.

He beats every stereotype hands-down. He is African American, but conservative. Loved Reagan. Is demonstrably brilliant - no way to characterize him successfully as a stupid, backward, rich white guy. (If they chose to try to make him out to be stupid, watch for him to pull 50% of the African American vote. They will be playing with fire in the way that they try to work him over because if African Americans feel like he is not getting a fair shake it might take him past a tipping point of support.) He is calm, not seen as feeding conservative racists and bigots red meat.

He is by far the biggest threat to the liberal Democratic machine that I have ever seen. It will be interesting to see how they react when (or if) he starts to poll higher than Trump.