Ben Carson Seems Serious About Running in 2016

Daily Beast: “The possibility that Ben Carson might run for president in 2016 first began to seem likely three years out, in February 2013. The world-renowned neurosurgeon descended on the National Prayer Breakfast to deride the trajectory of the United States while promising that he would not be silenced by the ‘PC police.’ It was a provocative, unorthodox performance, and not just because a certain sitting president remained onstage just a few feet from the podium, rubbing his eyes and smiling uncomfortably as the bespectacled, goateed Carson sliced away, among other things attacking lawyers because they are taught in law school ‘to win, by hook or by crook.’ (Obama is a lawyer.) Just like that, a Republican star was born.”

“Dissing the president of the United States to his face isn’t the typical way to begin your own White House trajectory. But today, all signs suggest that a Carson candidacy is imminent, although he told me in May that he would not announce until ‘probably in early 2015.’ The details of his emerging campaign infrastructure are as atypical as the man himself.”