Why? Are only certain folk able to run? If Carson shouldn't have, then it's easy to say only career politicians need apply.
I know I'm quoting Ace of Spades a lot here lately, but here it is:
I'm a poor student myself (bright, but a terrible student), but I still don't understand these guys who run for president without spending a month paying a few guys to brief them and tutor them.
And it would only take that long. It would take ten thousand dollars (nothing money for a presidential candidate) and a month, or six weeks. Congressional candidates have to bone up, after all, when they make the leap from local/state politics to national politics.
They're not geniuses, for God's sake. And yet they've either done some reading, or have gone through some kind of briefing boot-camp.
The only possible explanation for this failure to do basic homework, I think, is ego.
In my defense, Ace usually says what I'm thinking, but with better words.
Like Herman Cain before him, Carson was a victim of his own success.
BTW, I love both of them. Not just as people, as politicians too. They just chose not to learn what needed to be learned in order to hack it in the big leagues. Either of them probably would have been competitive for governor of a conservative state.
