Ben Carson Compared to Reagan as 2016 Draft Effort Continues

Conservatives and tea party supporters continue to try to recruit Dr. Ben Carson to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Carson is best known for his fierce criticism of President Barack Obamas federal health-care law.

John Phillip Sousa IV, the namesake of the patriotic composer and the chairman of the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee, emailed conservatives on Wednesday night comparing Carson to former President Ronald Reagan.

Dr. Ben Carson is the man who spoke boldly to President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast last March, telling him and the nation that Obamacare is an unworkable, dangerous scheme that will hurt all Americans, Sousa wrote. Now we know that Dr. Carson was right.

Before comparing him to Reagan, Sousa argued that Carson was the only Republican candidate who could defeat former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

He is the only candidate who, like Ronald Reagan, can explain the fallacy of liberal schemes in terms the average American can understand," Sousa insisted about Carson. Ben Carson has the communication skills of Ronald Reagan! The Republican Party has lots of great conservatives, several of whom, in my opinion, would make a great president. They are very good people. However, not one of these prospective candidates has the wit, wisdom, and persuasive eloquence of Ronald Reagan that Dr. Ben Carson possesses.

It was Ronald Reagans power to persuade that made it possible for him to win two landslide elections to the White House, Sousa added. He had the amazing ability to take a complex issue and explain it in simple, common-sense terms that the average voter could understand. Dr. Carson is blessed with those same skills. In fact, he is the first candidate since Ronald Reagan who has the necessary communication skills to be elected president of the United States. There is just no one else on the scene comparable to Dr. Carson.

Sousa also pointed toward Carsons lack of political experience and compared it to Reagans and Dwight Eisenhowers background.

It was politicians, both Democrat and Republican, that created the current mess we are in. We dont need another politician, we need a citizen statesman, Sousa wrote. Ronald Reagan was disdained as an actor when he ran for governor of California. They said he didnt have the skill or experience needed to run what was the seventh largest government in the world. But, relying on common sense and godly wisdom, Ronald Reagan turned California around and then saved the United States from economic collapse.

The last nonpolitician that was elected president of the United States was Dwight Eisenhower, who united our nation and faced down the Soviet Union, Sousa continued. And, by the way, Eisenhower received 39 percent of the African-American vote. Dr. Carson is a man of great intellect, great courage, and vast common sense. The one book he reads every day is the Book of Proverbs where he soaks in godly wisdom. Ben Carson has far more life experience than Barack Obama had when he was elected president as a newly minted, junior senator from Illinois. But, far more important, we need less Washington, D.C., political experience and more real world experience, godly wisdom, and common sense in our next president if America is to survive.