Funny. I've said it many times in the past, that on matters of race, Obama has poisoned the well for future black presidential candidates. Yet here I am, I hadn't even considered that point when when it came to Ben Carson. Hadn't really thought of him in racial terms, I guess. But, that just makes me a typical conservative; we don't roll that way. We don't focus on skin color, just content of character.
If I may be candid, I'm pretty sure that his race is the
only reason the general public ever considered him a contender in the first place. I only say that because the left puts so much emphasis on the whole "women and minorities" canard that there is a certain knee-jerk reaction on the right to favor women and minorities. It's not a bad thing—I'm not saying that only white men should run the country, and if a woman and/or minority is willing and able to fight for conservatism then by all means get them into office stat—but Carson's résumé is quite thin for a Presidential candidate: no history of governmental or political experience whatsoever, no major leadership positions in the private sector (and even corporations tend to get some respect in Republican primaries in this regard), and so on. Yes, he's a brain surgeon, a position that requires a lot of precision and knowledge, but in a very specific and narrow field that doesn't apply itself well to politics, unless somehow he's managed to uncover the secret to mind control, and at this point he hasn't shown that skill yet.
Had Ben Carson been white, the comments he made about Obamacare would not have stood out from the crowd the way they did when Carson said them. We take notice because it's such an aberration, with over 90% of the U.S. black voting population repeatedly voting straight-line Democrat and never considering anything else.
