Posted on 03/18/2013 7:52:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Famed surgeon and Obama critic Ben Carson fires up the Republican base gathered at CPAC.
While Sarah Palin and her Big Gulp stunt generated the most laughs at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the event made clear that she is no longer the GOP's rising star. Only five short years after she burst onto the national scene, Palin was overshadowed by those perceived as representing the GOP's best hope at reclaiming the White House. Among them was Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. But there was another rising star who emerged at this year's gathering. Only he's not a politician -- yet: Dr. Benjamin Carson.
Carson is one of the best-known black doctors ever; so well known, in fact, that his life story was the subject of a film starring Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr., titled Gifted Hands. The title refers to Carson's gifts as a surgeon. He became the youngest division head in the history of Johns Hopkins Hospital when he became director of pediatric neurosurgery at age 33.
He is known for executing some of the most groundbreaking surgeries of the last two decades, among them separating two conjoined twins. His rapid ascension followed his graduation from the University of Michigan Medical School and Yale University as an undergraduate. But what makes his accomplishments particularly impressive and compelling is that he grew up in poverty. Carson is the embodiment of the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mantra that so many conservatives espouse.
A devout Christian, he has made no secret of some of his socially conservative positions, among them opposing abortion. Though Carson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2008, it was not until earlier this year that he first began to be considered a political contender.
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I don't think Palin is consumed by self promotion as much as she wants to see conservative values put back into the place they achieved under Reagan. In my opinion, if Ted Cruz, or Marco Rubio were to become the next nominee it would be just fine with her.
Not so fast:
Dr. Ben Carson: Your right to own a semiautomatic should depend on where you live
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2993428/posts
Dr. Ben Carson: I don’t think Chris Christie and GOProud should be excluded from CPAC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992770/posts
While this could change, at this point, he’d have my vote. Not the least reason being, he isn’t a lawyer.
The first decent and honest President.
If you live inside a prison, you should not own a semiautomatic weapon.
This article is nothing but cheap sex for the PDS perverts.
I don’t think that’s what he meant.
“The Root” is telling us that Sarah is no longer relevant? OK ...
Ben cannot make it off a couple of speech’s. Who does he think he is Barrack Obama?
You got a long ways to go Ben.
Allan West is waaaaay ahead of you.
Indeed. It might give a huge part of the Democratic party base too much encouragement to not blindly support everyone with a (D) behind their name on the ballot.
Guess I’d better abandon my tagline then... LOL
What has he said about social issues that concerns you (don’t know and too lazy to look up)?
You assume there will be another election?
good point
That the second amendment doesn’t apply to cities or that we need a social issues truce of some kind and that CPAC should have let the gays in
I don't.
I would love to vote *for* a true conservative some day (I’m a self-described “rabid conservative”), but these days I’m more about voting *against* the commie-de-jour.
Something tells me this is a Herman Cain redux. We don’t know anything about this man other than he’s a talented physician, a devout Christian, and a good speaker. We don’t know his foreign policy preferences, we don’t know his 2A position, we don’t even know what he wants to do to replace ObamaCare.
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