Total BS. Bush did not crash the economy. Moreover, he didn't deregulate either. Clinton's crowd are the ones that changed the banking regulations, and the democrats stonewalled reform when it became clear it was going to crash. Bush tried to enact reforms but waited too long as the gems were formidable when the minority and once they held the House, it was impossible to stop the bank fraud. Bush and Paulson, even though I disagreed with TARP, actually rescued the economy and financial system before Obama came into office. Perhaps had we not done the stimulus, Obamacare and the like, we'd have a strong, robust recovery.
How's Carson electable? Liberals will absolutely skewer him if he becomes the GOP nominee. The spin machine will be put into overdrive and you know exactly how the Liberals will paint Carson.
Liberals are going to skewer whoever the Republican Nomination is. He's no non-sense, doesn't play the political game, a straight shooter (without being a total a-hole ala Trump), is a brilliant neurosurgeon that came from nothing in Detroit to become the youngest head of neurosurgery at John's Hopkins. Tell me why he isn't electable? I don't know what you're implying, but I get the feeling that it would've made Ronald Reagon un-electable.
Neither did being a "community organizer" qualify someone to be president but look what that got us.
I think that's wrong. First, any of the GOP candidates have a good shot at winning for a number of reasons; first the country usually turns to the other party after 8 years minus some exceptional success and Obama has been a failure. Second, the gems have sorry candidates. Third, the red states will still be red. Carson has a few advantages. First, if he is attacked by the Left, it may turn off a lot of their voters since he's black and soft-spoken, not a bomb thrower and obviously very smart. The attacks won't stick. Second, he'll turn out the base. The big issue is whether he can win a significant portion of the black vote, and frankly I don't know if he can. At the same time, I suspect some will vote for Carson simply because he's black and if he gets 20% or more the the black vote, the democrat loses.
A senator for very little time who voted present most of the time. He never sponsored any important legislation.
Carson's stance on same-sex marriage and abortion alone will cost him the general. Same-sex marriage is here to stay, legalized abortion is here to stay. Like it or not, they are here to stay. Now, those opinions resonate well with the GOP base, but the GOP base isn't going to win any general election for their candidate. The same could probably be said for Bernie Sanders. The only difference between Sanders and Carson- in a present-day general election sense- is Sanders' views are the views of what is to come, and Carson's views are obsolete. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with all of their views, respectively, but, that's how I see their opinions and ideologies playing-out in a general election. Carson, like much of the GOP, want to go back to the 1950's in a social sense, and continue to grow government and make sure the military, and the global war on terror, continues to be the main priority. The War on Drugs is an absolute failure. Marijuana is finally becoming an accepted legalization... unless you get the GOP involved.
No, he doesn't. But the hardcore GOP base would love it. This is why the GOP is diminishing as a viable alternative, politically. They're becoming more and more of a religious cult. The worst thing that EVER happened to the Republican Party began in 1980 when they allowed the religious fundamentalists into the tent.
This may not be the belief of Carson or others who believe in God but my opinion (as a believer) is that time has not always been kept the same way. 1000 years may be represented as a day, for example. I have no doubt that evolution has and is happening. I have a B.S in biology and a masters as well but I can believe that creationism and evolution are intertwined. Therefore I believe Carson may feel the same way or have similar beliefs.
