Dr. Ben Carson for President

There are quite a few excellent candidates for President in 2016, but I have a personal favorite, Dr. Ben Carson.

Please don’t misunderstand — for example, I like both Scott Walker and Dr. Rand Paul well enough and think either of them could also be a good man for the job…just not the best man for the job.

Ditto Mike Huckabee. I like that Huckabee supports the Fair Tax. However, without reading details of his plan to reform the tax system, I’m confident that Dr. Carson will likewise simplify our tax code.

What gives me this confidence? Radical simplification is absolutely essential in order to create new economic growth. Dr. Carson is obviously a very smart man, and after reading his editorial essays and listening to his speeches, I am very confident his primary objective will be solving our problems, rather than consolidating his political power.

In my opinion, what is usually identified as his greatest weakness as a candidate is also Dr. Carson’s greatest strength — he’s a medical doctor, not a professional politician by any stretch of the imagination. Dr. Carson has never held any political office, in fact.

So he’s not a polished politician. He’s not “politically correct.”

However, Dr. Carson is a brilliant thinker, and a terrific public speaker — very articulate without a teleprompter, as this inspiring speech he gave at the prayer breakfast demonstrated.

And he is a man accustomed to hard work – and a man known for getting things done. For example, Dr. Carson became internationally famous after leading a team of his fellow neurosurgeons in the world’s first successful operation to separate twins conjoined at the head, a twenty-two hour ordeal.

It was such a big deal that Cuba Gooding, Jr. played him in the Hollywood movie.

Clearly, Dr. Carson has a reputation for solving the unsolvable problem. Prior to his retirement, one might say that he was a little too busy helping save the lives of critically ill children to play politics.

Furthermore, Dr. Carson’s life story epitomizes the “rags-to-riches” American dream that many believe is now dead. He’s living proof that isn’t true.

Simply stated, Dr. Carson represents everything that has made America into the greatest nation in the history of the earth — the freedom to reach for and even exceed our wildest dreams of achievement.

If elected, he wouldn’t be the first American President without prior experience in politics. Dwight Eisenhower was the most recent, and George Washington the most famous.

I’d rather we elected a true patriot over an experienced politician. We need an experienced problem solver. It should be noted that Dr. Ben Carson has successfully dealt with some of the most difficult problems encountered by medical science and taken significant risks over the course of his professional career in order to save the lives of children. Dr. Carson is truly a selfless man.

Barack Obama promised a fundamental transformation of America, and has largely succeeded by dividing Americans against each other.

Racial tensions are being aggravated by the government instead of being quelled.

I believe Dr. Ben Carson can transform America back into the country the founding fathers intended. And he isn’t being shy about going public with his idea for how to replace the Affordable Care Act.

The man has read de Tocqueville, so he knows American history. Dr. Carson also understands the problems of poverty, and from his own personal experience. He certainly didn’t grow up as a child of privilege in a tropical paradise. He’s humble enough that he prays every day.

Assuming that America’s problems can be solved, Ben Carson will solve them. If anything can be done, Ben Carson will do it better.

Because that’s his work ethic.