Kind if a religious zealot. Makes me wonder what his creator will tell him to do if president

Perhaps, so far though he's been surprisingly unshakable, even when the MSM deliberate tries to provoke him.

West isn't running...which is too bad.
Cruz still has my respect.

Agreed, although he might be too nice to run the election gauntlet.

I've been following Carson Cruz and West for quite a long time...Carson is genuine.

Agreed..and its evident that he loves this country and its Constitution.

Religious zealot or Confiscation zealot...hmmm...I think I'd bet on any concept of God over the Devil.
On the other hand, I'll take Door # 3.

I don't think Carson takes pages from anyone but his creator.

Your comment about Muslims and bigotry reveals you do not understand Islam. One who believes in the 5 Pillars of Islam (i.e., all Muslims) believes in sharia as the sole code of justice. Islam rigidly rejects and punishes any attempt to change any interpretations of the Qu'ran or the Hadith, since the Qu'ran is regarded as the DIRECT word of Allah.

I do not fully agree with it either for a variety of reasons. I do think Socrates was speaking not of everything but about larger things - I could be wrong. Still, to presume we know everything is the opposite of wisdom, no? What is wrong with a bit of mystery? What is wrong with accepting that there are a great many things that can never and will never be explained? Whats wrong with believing that man is more than a high thinking monkey based on his ability to think, reason, and remember (clarke 2001)? I think asterisks do the italics trick?

AJAshinoff: I can't agree with your Socratic quote,
that the only true wisdom is in knowing one knows
nothing. 'We know that we know nothing,' they
chatter, blanking out the fact that they are claiming
knowledge; 'There are no absolutes,' they chatter,
blanking out the fact that they have just uttered
an absolute..."--Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged".
(would have put the title in italics, but I don't see
the italics button on this machine).

Big bang...Do you believe it? If so, were you there or are you just speculating from assumptions based on a theory of what you see?

BB = imaginary friend to atheists.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

Anything else is arrogance and bluster. There is a lot more to existence that what we can see and touch, thats factual.

"I am not a practicing follower of any superstition / religion,"
It's funny how you can have a preference for one's imaginary friend over the other, esp when to me as an atheist they seem almost the same. It's almost like a joke where they subtly changed the insane bizarre stories' details and character names.
I take none of it seriously. Educated people of the world do not take religious stories, esp the bizarre ones where you hear voices telling you to kill your son, literally.

If you're saying we don't want leaders who take any religious stories literally, that goes without saying for me. I don't think anyone educated really does. I think it's just something to make people feel close to you, as if they're part of the group of your ancestors, and it's to shamelessly get people to fear their neighbors based on their ancestors, stuff that has nothing to do with the modern world. I really think this nonsense is on it's way out.

The problem of educated people taking religion literally and becoming radicalized in large number is simply not real. It's either a thin veil to express bigotry or a boogie man for those who like to have some big thing to fear. None of this is remotely real.

I hope so. Being 70 myself, this could be the last election for me. who knows.

term2... Maybe we will live through "a perfect storm" when all the better things come at the same time. We need it. Don't forget to vote,

Maybe one way to look at it is to pick candidates on what the country needs most at this particular time. From my perspective it seems the protection of our money is number 1. For that, deficit spending must stop right away, otherwise what us retired people are counting on our savings to do just happen in the future. That means scaling back the powers of the federal reserve to print money too.

2. Get out of the various wars draining our resources for no benefits

3. Cutting back on crony capitalism where people are using government to lord over regular citizens.

4. Stop pandering to immigrants who come here just to get freebies that the rest of us have to pay for. Immigrants who come here for a better life and are willing to work for it are welcome and should get work permits, but not instant citizenship. If we allow too many people of other cultures to become citizens too quickly, we will lose OUR culture.

As to useless, evil, and boring- I think the democrats this time have taken the cake. Hillary just lies and manipulates, Biden would just make deals with his friends in government, Sanders would really take us down the socialist road quickly, and the others are boring !

"NASA's primary mission being changed to Muslim outreach."

What an incredibly painful farce that was. How could anyone have made that mission statement with a straight face...though I am not sure if laughing or crying would have been more appropriate.

Jan

Does expertise equal the right to tell everyone else what to do? If so, Obama's expertise in community organizing means that we should all step aside and allow him to continue organizing our national community as he deems best.

term2.. I hate to admit it, because the overall picture of the Republicans so far is good in that there is so much contrast between the candidates, but it is starting to seem that we have too many choices and it is becoming more difficult to choose. I have to say that so far there is not one that I would dismiss as useless, evil or even boring. In my 75 years, I have never seen so many candidates that all have something positive to offer. After the last 7 years, they all seem to each have some fresh air to inject into the election debates that have previously degenerated into a contest of identity and jealousy politics. So far, so good. I hope the initiative to more open and honest contests will continue.

Carson didn't single out a group. He was asked about Muslims in particular. Rejecting Muslim beliefs as incompatible with the Constitution is not bigotry. But he should not have said that the President should be “sworn in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-governme...

The constitutional prohibition on religious tests for holding office does not mean that the president does not have to follow the Constitution when his religion tells him not to and does not mean that any voter cannot decide for himself when a candidate's religious adherence is incompatible with either the Constitution or the proper purpose of government. Ben Carson was asked if he could support a Muslim for president and he gave his reasons why not. He did not propose religious tests for holding office.