Dr. Carson hints a White House run, exciting conservatives

[SuperiorDG]

I'd vote for him.


Dr. Ben Carson -- who during his speech at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast criticized some of President Obama’s economic policies -- hinted Saturday that he might be interested in a 2016 presidential run.
Speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, Carson resumed his sharp critique of Washington and the rest of the United States, which included his vision on how to fix the country’s problems.
“Let's say you magically put me in the White House,” Carson, a Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon, said to a loud applause.
The remark was a bit unexpected, considering Carson has said his prayer breakfast speech -- critical of higher taxes and Obama’s new health-care law -- was to “serve God” and was not political.
However, Carson has since become so popular among conservatives that his name is on the ballot for CPAC’s straw poll for a 2016 presidential candidate.
The 62-year-old Carson, whose prayer breakfast remarks were within earshot of Obama, said Saturday he is retiring from surgery within roughly the next three to four months. He said his immediate focus will be on “educating the next generation," then “once we get that taken care of who knows.”
Carson, raised in poverty, returned to his concerns including the decline of education in America, Washington overspending and the importance of God in American life.
“We continue to spend ourselves into oblivion,” said Carson, adding the country’s younger generations have become “uniformed” and “ignorant.”
Carson also seemed to imply Obama’s agenda is destroying the country.
He said if somebody was in the White House and “wanted to destroy this nation,” then “that person might create division among the people … undermine the financial stability of the country … weaken the military ... .Coincidentally, those are the very things that are happening right now.”

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[Ronin13]

I saw some of his speech from CPAC... really well said! I'd vote for him for sure!

[rondog]

I'd like to see former Congressman Col. Allen West run. Don't know much about him, just seen a couple of his speeches and he seemed like a good prospect. Anybody know more about him?

[hurley842002]

I'd like to see former Congressman Allen West run. Don't know much about him, just seen a couple of his speeches and he seemed like a good prospect. Anybody know more about him?

This ^^ I've seen quite a few of his speeches, and follow him on Facebook. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

[Zundfolge]

I liked him a lot until he opened his mouth and started spouting off about how people in cities shouldn't be allowed to own semi-automatic firearms.

Another statist that just happens to be correct about fiscal policy, that is all.

[rondog]

I liked him a lot until he opened his mouth and started spouting off about how people in cities shouldn't be allowed to own semi-automatic firearms.

Another statist that just happens to be correct about fiscal policy, that is all.

Really? West said that?

[Zundfolge]

Really? West said that?

God no, not West, but Dr Carson.

[Rooskibar03]

He's a black conservative. Give it a few more weeks and some new dirt on his background will all of a sudden hit the front page.

[tmckay2]

whoa, lets slow down the train here folks. we want a guy in office due to a few speeches? sounds like liberal talk to me.

[rondog]

whoa, lets slow down the train here folks. we want a guy in office due to a few speeches? sounds like liberal talk to me.

Never said that. West just sounds like someone viable, would like to know more about him. Like why he lost his re-election campaign, and other details. I'm much more interested in a conservative retired Army Colonel who seems to be very patriotic and Constitution-oriented than the socialist in charge now or any of the Socialists lined up behind him.