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Ben Carson is a man who will stand up for the right things. He's not ready to be president, but he could serve in a cabinet position should a conservative win in two and a half years. He'll need some experience serving in public office, but he's got ideas on how to get this country back on track again.
Carson is just an arrogant Surgeon who thinks because he can hold someone's life in his hand he can run the most powerful country in the world. The guy who hooked up the gas water heater in my house or rewired my house can get me killed if he screws it up. I don't think he believes he can be president.
Oh and like Obama, as a community organizer and one term senetor with a penchant for voting "present" was just soooo much more qualified in 2008 than a genius level neurosurgeon is now.
The problem for any conservative presidential nominee is how to get to 270electoral votes.
Basically, there are states that have not voted for a conservative presidential nominee since 1988 or longer, so that means for the last 6 presidential elections these states have voted for the Democratic party, if the electoral college vote totals for those states is added up you get 242electoral college votes for the Democratic presidential nominee. Basically, the Democratic nominee is about 90% of the way there to winning.
Will Ben Carson change that electoral math? Will He put California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Minnesota, Washington DC, Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii, etc into play?
No obviously that leaves off some states like Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and all of the states that normally vote conservatives as basically states that the conservative nominee has to win all of them to barely eek out an electoral college win.
I don't see nominating Ben Carson as really changing that math all by himself.
The republican party has to appeal to more voters besides rich people, white people some of whom are married and or older, and some right wing religious types, gun nuts, etc.
The republican party has to become a lot less conservative.
Ben Carson is a man who will stand up for the right things.
No, he mostly sounds like a retread of the same old failed ideas with the same old dose of bigotry. Like when he claimed gay people were like pedophiles and people who practice bestiality... Because two consenting adults being in a relationship is exactly like raping a child or an animal neither of which can give consent, right?
But he's willing to babble what ever nonsense the GOP knuckle draggers want to hear so I'm sure the usual dunces will love while everyone else laughs at them for being fools. That is the way of the wing nut.
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