Is there any other candidate to whom you would afford such leeway?
Yeah, Ronald Reagan. I couldn’t care less about all the stupid government lingo and details of things like SALT that Jimmy Carter was so big on. I cared about one thing: America and what was best for her. Reagan said he would lower taxes, get the economy strong again and then go after the USSR with the strategy, “We win, they lose.” And he did just that.
You don’t vote for the political insider who knows all the lingo and collateral details about who’s who. You vote for the man who has the best interests of America at heart and the best way of getting her on the right track.
The ones least likely to do that are the “ruling elite” who want nothing to do with change (REAL not Obama-change - the kind that CUTS GOVERNMENT) because that threatens those in power. So politicians are generally not the right candidates. As Carson said, we need “citizen-statesmen.”