Ben Carson in His Own Words

[Geee]

American Thinker:

After five years of President Obama, we want a dynamic conservative candidate who we can believe in to take us to 2016. With names on the horizon like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, and Nikki Haley, we have some promising politicians; and another name has risen to the top: Dr. Ben Carson.

Ben Carson is the latest potential presidential candidate to be anointed by conservatives. Less than a year after his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, the 61-year old neurosurgeon, known for his deeply held religious beliefs as well as his determination to live the American Dream, has gained support from many conservative organizations like the Tea Party, right-to-life groups, Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Works, and David Horowitz's Freedom Center .

Carson's post-election entrance onto the national stage at the 2013 Prayer Breakfast gave despondent conservatives new hope. The famous surgeon criticized the President's signature health law and mocked political correctness while the President sat stone faced. Carson's boldness made headlines from MSNBC to far-right alternative blogs.

The decidedly political speech, different from his 1997 Prayer Breakfast address, was a triumph and made him an instant hit with stalwarts on the right. Glenn Beck actually said "I love you" during an interview when Carson told him his favorite person in history was George Washington. Rush Limbaugh thinks Carson "has everybody in the Democrat Party scared to death." Mark Levin and Sarah Palin have lauded Carson on their sites.

[pollyannaish]

I always find these articles interesting. I vaguely remember these same kinds of things being said about President Reagan.

 

The truth is, people change, learn and look at things differently over the years. I don't know if Carson should be president. He is not my personal front runner at the moment. But if we go back and look at every candidate this way from the beginning of their lives I believe that we will end up ruling everyone out for not being perfect enough.

 

What I DO know, is that Carson would be way better than what we have now. And until we are in the race and really looking at all the pieces of the puzzle there is a certain amount of this that's just a bunch of hot air.

[Geee]

@pollyannaish - I agree. I believe that Carson is probably an honorable and extremely bright man, but we have not seen him answer enough questions to know where he stands on many issues - but extremely honorable alone is better than we have now.