From the Baltimore Sun: Johns Hopkins Hospital's Dr. Ben Carson tested the political waters Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where many said he would be a popular Republican contender for the White House.
Carson's speech was met with several standing ovations — with the most enthusiastic applause following a veiled comment about his plans after retiring from Hopkins. And he ranked well in a straw poll, where he was on the ballot against nearly two dozen of the nation's most prominent conservative voices.
"In 106 days I will be retiring," said the 61-year-old Carson, Hopkins' longtime director of pediatric neurosurgery and a Baltimore County resident. "I'd much rather quit when I'm at the top of my game. And there's so many more things that can be done."
Those at CPAC, from the main-stage speakers who invoked him as an example of American socio-economic mobility to young people who have never voted in a national election, said Carson is an unvarnished voice of conservatism. The clarity and certainty with which he speaks have the potential to bring people together from all sides of the fractured Republican Party, they said.
"I love his background. It shows you can go far in life without having much" at the beginning, said Michelle Pope, 20, of Courtland, Va. She, like many others at the conference, described him as "inspiring." http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-md-carson-at-cpac-20130316,0,7951595.story
I haven't heard of Dr. Carson until today and from what I read, he sounds like a decent man with a lot of intelligence.
Watch the Demorats go after this good doctor and make him look like the brother of the devil because he doesn't believe in living on the liberal plantation.
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