Maybe in your lifetime you have not encountered this little thing called the "benefit of the doubt." A better way to make your point: Dr. Carson has said some troubling things in regard to the right to bear arms in an urban environment. While he purports himself to be in favor of the Second Amendment, he has advocated limitations that may deprive urban dwellers of access to the best means for self-defense, whether it be semi-automatic weapons or otherwise. For this reason I do not think he is as strong a candidate as Ted Cruz when it comes to this issue.
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It is important, and only fair, to let a person articulate ideas more than once and arrive at the better formulations. It is better to treat a walk-back statement as a good thing than as a gotcha thing. It doesn't matter whether your dealing with someone you agree with or disagree with.
For example, I am not going to hold you to the words of your post indefinitely, because, unless one is wholly static or a stone, it is part of life to grow and mature. There is absolutely *nothing* wrong with flip-flops when they addend to greater understanding, whether within or without.
In all fairness, you cannot truly assert that Ben Carson believe cities do not need a Second Amendment. He is not so dense as to believe the Second Amendment does not hold sway in every corner of the USA. He has clearly iterated what he believes to be reasonable strictures, and has since walked those back. Apparently you are a perfect judge of his motives. I am not.
Although neither of us may end up supporting Dr. Carson in some way, I would encourage you to hear him out fairly on all the issues. Life is easier when one does not assume a hidden agenda with everything a man says or does.
Best to you in your fight for truth, justice, and the American way, Norm. You've been a delightful joust despite the rancor that has attended to us both. Give it a year or so and I'll jump your case on something else.
All he can run on is his rapidly changing or flip-flopping rhetoric.
Rhetoric doesn't do it for me.
That's why I send money to the Cruz campaign this early in the cycle.
I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I know who I want to vote for, unlike many here on FR that will be satisfied with whoever the GOP-E or media picks for a candidate.
/johnny
The time for feeling one’s oats on fairly basic issues is not when running for the presidency. While I wish that the presidency had far less power so we could pay less attention to it, the reality is that presidents have almost dictatorial power. This is not an internship.
Dr. Carson has no elected record to look at. He does not have any significant administrative record that I’m aware of. All we have is what he has said in public and what he has written to judge him on.
Given the record of “highly experienced” presidents that we’ve had in the last 30 years, I’d be more willing than most to give a nonpolitician a shot. But this guy can’t seem to get even the basics right. So I see no point in doing anything more than saying NO to his presidential ambitions. There are better candidates running already.