I think Carson is intelligent enough and principled enough and persuasive enough to lead. Political experience is of little value to a country in need of someone who isn’t covered and dripping in the blood of a lifetime of negotiations and alliances with lobbyists and campaign donors and crony colleagues.
With respect to how mean he is, I too have been a bit concerned about whether he will show a strong and clear tact. This quote from him about ISIS further encouraged me that he is perhaps up to the challenge:
“When you’re dealing with an organization like ISIS whose stated goal is to destroy you, you can’t play with them, you can’t just drive them back to their little hole and let them regroup and come back out. You have to have a philosophy that you’re going to get rid of them and you have to use the means that are necessary in order to do that. You can’t play games.”
Like having lawyers and “experienced” politicians has worked out so well.