Monday, May 04, 2015

Carson and Fiorina are in!

Glenn Reynolds notes at Instapundit,
If the GOP field were the Democratic field, and vice versa, we’d be hearing a lot from the press about diversity and dynamism opposed to old, white establishment faces.
Former Fortune 500 CEO Carly Fiorina and neurosurgeon Ben Carson both announced their candidacy for the GOP nomination today.

At PJ Media Roger L. Simon calls them
two of the more interesting presidential candidates to have come along in a while, largely because they are not professional politicians, but are highly accomplished in other areas. Somewhere James Madison and Thomas Jefferson must be smiling.

...Both have fascinating backgrounds. Carson is something of secular saint. A boy from a single-parent family in the ‘hood, he went on to attend some of our fanciest universities and become a pediatric neurosurgeon and the first human being ever, at age 37 (!), to separate Siamese twins. What president or presidential candidate can say anything close? Does this man have the equanimity to deal with the famous three a.m. phone call? I should think so.

...Can you imagine someone of the extreme goodness and unshakeable morality of Dr. Ben Carson faced off in debate with her shiftiness, the Queen of the Erased Emails, Ms. Hillary R. Clinton herself.

But speaking of Hillary, Carly Fiorina has already positioned herself as the anti-Hillary and has been doing a damned good job of it. As evasive as the former secretary of state is, the business woman Fiorina is direct. Carly tells it like it is while Hillary doesn’t tell it.
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