Dr. Ben Carson may have been mainly a Fox phenomenon immediately after he lectured President Obama at a National Prayer Breakfast last month, but it looks like he’s going mainstream. The conservative speaker and retiring neurosurgeon has been interviewed by CNN, and written up by such bastions of liberalism as the Washington Post. The doctor has been hyped as a candidate for President (or, more recently, a candidate for the vacant Michigan Senate seat) since the day after the prayer breakfast. But he is not on Karl Rove's list of "Conservative Rising Stars," as he told Greta Van Susteren on Friday night.
Dr. Carson is an “exceptional human being” said Rove, but “you know, there's another thing, though, between that and running for office. And there's a reason why we have rarely elected people who've not previously served in political office.…I hope he enters the public sphere of our country in some way, shape or form because he's a really fine human being.” Rove then listed some people he thought were Rising Stars: governors like Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Susana Martinez of New Mexico, even Tea Party public enemy Chris Christie of New Jersey; as well as Senators and Congressmen like Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul. (The accompanying visual showed mainly pictures of Paul and Martinez – and no, Rove didn’t mention Ted Cruz).
Rove also discussed some changes the party might make to its selection process – in particular limiting the number of debates. “A dozen debates is going to be adequate for anybody to get known.” It would also, he said, minimize the damage from anchors who were “really happy” to depict the Republican candidates as the wingnuts they were“strange people not really concerned with jobs, economy, deficit, debt and the health care, but concerned with every weird sort of social issue or every weird sort of recent statement by somebody that they could draw out of the past and make the subject of the debate.”
PS: Dr. Carson has hinted that, if he doesn’t run for office after retiring from medicine (which he plans to do soon) he might be interested in a TV show. Hmmmm…. Wonder if he’s had a phone call from Roger yet.
Oh, but it’s all good — Fr. Sean Hannity absolved their sins:
However, Hannity was not to be deterred. “Alright, but your mother was a U.S. citizen, just to clarify,” he continued. When Cruz verified that, Hannity added, “I hear birther cries building on the left if you ever do run, so…”
http://www.newshounds.us/hannity_runs_interference_on_any_birther_issues_for_sen_ted_cruz_03192013
Of course, President Obama’s mother was ALSO born in the US — but the President’s dark skin nullifies that fact, according to the afterBirthers.
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The Tea Nuts have vowed to take down Rove and his friends at Fox “News” Channel.
In 2014, purchase plenty of popcorn because this is one showdown you don’t want to miss.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/
Why’s this relevant? Because this is the closest he’s been to both relevant and behaved in weeks. No, seriously- his childish, paranoid behaviour in these clips is him in his big boy pants.
Hm — UnKKKle Karl must’ve discovered Dr. Carson is black.
Dr. Carson is an “exceptional human being” said Rove, but “you know, there’s another thing, though, between that and running for office. And there’s a reason why we have rarely elected people who’ve not previously served in political office.…"
That reason can be summed up in two words:
1. Herman
2. Cain
Rove then listed some people he thought were Rising Stars: governors like Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Susana Martinez of New Mexico . . .
Funny how those people have brown skin — it appears UnKKKle Karl and the Teapublicans have fully embraced the old saying:
“If you’re white, you’re alright.
If you’re brown, hang around.
If you’re black — stay back!”
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