And to hear Carson tell it, he is just amazed by the reaction people have to him, although he doesn’t think it’s really about him, but it’s also completely about him.
“I see it every place I go at all the book signings,” he laughed when I asked him about the enthusiasm for his candidacy back in May. “You’d think it was a protest!” His tone turned from playful to serious. “I recognize that it’s not so much me that people want—they just want someone with common sense. They want a voice that’s not afraid. I’ve made it quite clear that I refuse to be intimidated by the forces of political correctness.”
And then, asked what his favorite part of such interactions are, he said: “Just seeing the optimism that people have, particularly a lot of elderly people who tell me they had just given up and were waiting to die and now they have hope for their children and grandchildren.”
After curing the elderly of their semi-suicidal depression, winning the White House must seem like a snap.
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