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10/28/2015

Dr. Ben Carson leads GOP in NYT/CBS poll. If this was in The Onion, it would be ludicrous. He's not getting nom, but still GOP, really...?!
— Robert Elisberg (@relisberg) October 27, 2015

Yes, it's too insane to just take my word for it, so here's the proof.

And if you can't bear to click and read the whole article, here's the headline and lead, with the date attached, as well --

Again, Dr. Ben Carson (R-Mayo Clinic) is not getting the Republican Party nomination to be President of the United States. It just is not happening. (Another article, in fact, says he_re that 72% of Republicans are undecided who they'll vote for.) But just the mere fact that more Republicans say they prefer Dr. Ben Carson to lead them just speaks volumes of how fractured the GOP is. Actually, going further, the mere fact that 48% of Republicans say that they not only want either Dr. Ben Carson or Donald Trump (R-Trump Towers) to lead them, but also believe that for inexplicable reasons believe that either man is somehow capable of being President of the United States, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, and leader of the free world says more negative about today's Republican Party than I ever could.

To repeat, when Republicans across the country go into a voting booth, there is no way they are going to make Dr. Ben Carson their party's nominee. I don't believe they will either for Donald Trump, but I'm not willing right now to say "no way" -- not because of Mr. Trump, but because I'm not sure for absolute certain who else they would vote for. The only choices at the moment appear to be Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz, and, man, that is a problematic mud fight I don't want to watch.

But just saying that Dr. Ben Carson and Donald Trump have more support combined than Sen. Lindsay Grahm at 1% is mind-boggling enough.

2 Comments

Scott Horn

10/29/2015 09:29:17 pm

I wholeheartedly agree with your incisive comments about Dr. Carson being President. It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a brain surgeon, to realize that an exceptionally smart, articulate, calm, rational and practical man is the last person who should be elected President, because the President should essentially reflect the mental acuity of those who elect him or her. Right?

Robert Elisberg

10/30/2015 10:39:29 am

Scott, thank you for writing. Of course, being smart in one field does not remotely make one smart in another, especially a field in which they're profoundly unqualified. And while being calm and articulate are nice personality traits and helpful if you work a customer service phone line, they're not inherently high on the list of what makes a good president. However, your definition of "rational and practical" (as well as that "articulate") is very different from mine.

I'll explore more in a post, but for starters I'll just say that I find someone who believes Obamacare "is slavery in a way," and the notion of evolution "was encouraged by the adversary" (the devil) -- not to be even remotely rational and practical.

Being President of the United States requires experience, just like any job we consider crucial to our well-being.

But above all that, I say that Dr. Ben Carson will not be the GOP nominee for a totally different reason other than him calmness or rationality. I say it because, even if he was the most brilliant politician in the world, I do not see today's Republican Party nominating a black man to lead them.

On the other hand, "exceptionally smart, articulate, calm, rational and practical" is a pretty good description of Barack Obama.

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