Quote Originally Posted by JKDS View Post
For me, its gonna come down to whether Carson can be a better public speaker. Hes smart, sure. But hes got some serious issues with not knowing what to do with his hands, and not sounding confident all the time. To some extent you can play that off as "as a scientist, the more you know...the harder it is to be confident in anything" but still. Needs some aggressive fire.

Rubio is the only one so far that seems able to weave an emotional story and pull on some heart-strings, and if no one else can do that then hes gonna win fo sho.
I don't want to sound like a hair-splitting ass, but Carson, as far as I know, isn't a scientist. He's a medical doctor and a neurosurgeon. I'm not familiar with everything that a neurosurgeon might know but he's not a neuroscientist. Medicine is a practice and only recently have there been more attempts at being more scientifically minded, i.e., collecting data on patient outcomes and determining best practices (large and small) that lead to the best outcomes. I agree with the posit that the more you know the harder it is to sure of something, and Carson does seem to hedge somewhat appropriately at times, and maybe it is due to this fact.

I find it hard to swallow that someone can't understand that the both the bible (somewhat vaguely and open to interpretation) and the Constitution (fairly directly) say that religion should stay out of government. And yet he still thinks a Muslim couldn't be president and that the Bible is more important than the Constitution.