I think that the old white guys who set up our government intended for successful individuals from the private sector to take a few years and "serve the public" in elected office. At this point, career politicians are just too tainted by Washingtonitis to perform well.

America is sick. Call the doctor.

Romney did not have any skeletons in his closet either. Didn´t help him; Of course, he was a businessman and Carson is a surgeon so maybe it will be harder to make people think he is suspect. I had been wanting Romney to run for President ever since my brother talked to me about him at the time he was Governor of MA. I now transfer my hopes to Dr. Carson. I am curious to know his stance on immigration.

If it turns out that Rubio or Rand Paul or Paul Ryan get the nomination, fine by me, but I think it might be easier to elect the Doctor.

I´m sorry, but being an impressive and inspirational speaker is wonderful and spirit-lifting, but we really should stop propelling every one who catches our attention to a presidential material level.

Dr. Carson is refreshingly honest and has a lot of commonsense solutions for many of our problems. However, I am leery of a couple of things he suggested. Such as an HSA that the government would contribute too if a person couldn´t. Seems like another entitlement program waiting to happen.

I wonder how long it will take for him to be branded as stupid, ignorant, etc.,(by both sides of the political spectrum)the way Sarah Palin and Andrew Breitbart were?

Yup. Remember what they did to Allen West, Sarah, Michelle Bachman, Sharon Angle etc.

The media will embrace him as much as they embrace Walter Williams, Mychal Massey, and Thomas Sowell. Oh yeah, how do they treat Justice Clarence Thomas?

This is beginning to sound very much like the ´President of the week´ that went on during the Republican primaries this year. Every week whoever sounded even partially plausible as a candidate became the flavor of the week with very little evidence they would be a good candidate or a good President. Don´t forgot all Herman Cain had to do was say 999 a few times and posters were rallying around him as their perfect candidate and President. Look what that turned into.

Dr.Ben Carson is a great speaker and may or may not have a political future, but good heavens, let´s wait awhile before thinking we have a new hero who will save the party and the country. Have we learned nothing? What´s the rush?

What is the big political issue of 2016 likely to be?

With ObamaCare already starting to cause suffering among Americans even though it´s hardly gotten off the ground, Obama´s signature healthcare program and the need for its repeal will probably be at center stage in 2016.

And who would be the strongest candidate to lead such an effort as the 2016 Republican presidential nominee than a charismatic physician who´d been working in the ObamaCare trenches for several years and had many things to say about why it should be repealed in his charismatic, well-spoken way?

The dream of Dr. Carson pleasantly and eloquently demolishing Hillary Clinton, question by question, in a presidential debate is enough to keep hope alive for this country.

The established GOP elite will not like him either, and his candidacy for any office he may seek must be a very intense grass roots effort. And that’s the only kind that is worth a damn.

#8, why wouldn´t the GOP love Dr. Carson? I think it´s unfair to assume they wouldn´t. He says all the things most of us have been saying and, out loud.

Yeah, a decent inspirational speaker would be just horrible. Clearly we can´t have that./s

I like to see somebody who is clearly comfortable with admitting they ask for God´s advice before doing something. Very refreshing.

A lot of whining so far ahead of 2016. Let the process play out, relax and see what happens. Carson is a lot better than most of the others who laughingly decided they had a shot last time.

Lets see:

A man who clearly opposes socialized medicine - and is pro-medicine rather than pro-socialism (like you-know-who)

A man who can hear "God Bless America" and agree with it - rather than hear God D**N America and agree (or at least tolerate it for 20 years) like you-know-who.

A man who believes in the american dream - and got it though his own hard work (unlike a certain community agitator turned self appointed emperor. Y-K-W)

A man who can make a complete extemporaneous sentence without reference to a teleprompter. (Now I know Y-K-W)

A man who seems to actually revere the constitution rather than mocking it as a "charter of negative rights" like Y-K-W.

And not to put too fine a point on it:

...has devoted his life to saving children´s lives rather than to devising laws to facilitate their extermination if their parents find them inconvenient (like Y-K-W)

...believes we should all "have skin in the game" rather than all but the very richest being "skinned by the game." (like Y-K-W)

Finally, if we are all interested in getting racism out of politics, how about a black candidate who´s race (unlike Y-K-W) has nothing to do his qualifications?

#6- You´re right. Bravo.

I never once jumped on any of those bandwagons. In fact, this is my first.