[TheRealThing]

I agree with you 100 percent about Carson. He is all class. However, I am not looking for a president who will work well with Democrats, or with the RINOS who are running Congress today. Harmony with the politicians running Washington today would be a step backwards.

I want a president who will speak persuasively directly to the American public and generate pressure on politicians of both parties to start doing the jobs that they were elected to do. It is because Dr. Carson is so non-confrontational that I do not believe he is the best man for the job at this time. Pelosi, Reid, McConnell, and Ryan would make life very difficult for a President Carson. I also do not believe that Carson is prepared for the kind of dirty campaign that Hillary Clinton would wage against him.

Yeah, though I may have great respect and appreciation for my doctor, I may not necessarily want him to be my President. Carson has achieved what many will never know anything about, and that is a blend of success and humility. Thus he has respect for others while not taking himself too seriously. I really like that about him but as you say, the mud will fly during the campaign and the Republicans had better come up with the right guy to wage that war.

I'm not in the Rubio camp. The clear front runner in my eyes has always been Cruz. And there is irony in the fact that his campaign is not doing better than it is presently, and that is in the fact that more attention has not been given to his tax plan which would abolish the IRS. I mean, we're talking about increasing one's income by quite a bit here if we go to a 10% flat tax rate. I hate the annual tax filing merry go round, not to mention that most folks could really put that extra money to good use.

But as Dusty mentioned, there is really only one reason we're talking about illegal immigration and the like, and that is thanks to Mr Trump. Before his stated stance on illegals in this country, absolutely nobody had the nerve to make so much as a glancing blow about it. He could do himself a world of good though, if he would just back up a little and tailor his deportation plans of said illegals to include those who are overtaken in some illegal activity. In other words, if they get busted driving drunk, selling drugs or knocking off a drug store, then have them sent back home. That's the only way law enforcement likely to find them anyway. And BTW, all these people are citizens of their own homeland. How did we Americans come to the asinine notion that we are somehow responsible for those who were born outside of the US and who have managed somehow to crash the border at some weak spot? How ridiculous an idea is that? Let them go on back home, that isn't dooming them to the phantom zone, that is just sending them back to their home.