[TheRealThing]

^ I understand where you are coming from completely. You don’t have to scream and shout in order to be a person of principle. Ben Carson is a person who says what he thinks, hasn’t spent decades screwing the pooch in Washington or flying his ass from the media flagpole, and he isn’t friends with the pack rats running through the sewers of democracy.

Carson is doing something no one has done in decades, combine a values-laden conservative message with a soft-spoken, humble persona. Others who have sought Reagan’s mantle have emulated elements of the Gipper’s approach, but none have spoken the language of freedom and the morality of the Bible with such eloquence until now. Carson is as close to unifying all wings of conservatism as anyone since George W. Bush in 2000.

I can see him uniting the Republican conference. And, if one were to use the same argument I have used in defending the sage leadership skills of Ronald Reagan, Carson may well have the grace and humility necessary to pick the right people for leadership positions, and then step back somewhat and let them lead. If he can do that, things recently gone awry from a weakened military, to issues with a highly politicized federal reserve could be fixed. The economics or our day along with the two nations of Russia and China who are vying for superpower status represent tremendous challenge, that and 20 plus trillion in debt and even more government give-aways which are to come before Obama's merciful departure, are no small thing.