We better prepare to run against Ben Carson in 2016

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7. I don't see it

Yes, there might be a point to be made that some of the higher-ups in the GOP machine could look at him and say this will help us get over our racist image, etc., but there are just as many other higher-ups who are racist or base campaigns partly on appealing to the racism of the vast majority of their voters. The republicans really, really, really want an old white guy in the presidency again. Right now, it looks like to everyone like Hillary will be the nominee on our side - I'm not saying she will be, but that is the conventional "wisdom" right now, and their tactic for her is and will be partly, "Look at what the last non-white person did to the country! Do we want to chance it again? Vote Whitey McWhiterson in 2016."

Carson is a more erudite, less Marvin the Martian-sounding Alan Keyes. As long as he can keep parroting the GOP line, they're happy to have a Black guy on their side as long as he keeps the eyeballin' of the White women - and the presidency - to a minimum. If he were the candidate, the republicans would have to work harder than they ever have just to keep the South, leaving them unable to put up much of a fight in swing states.

And Jindal is kidding himself as well.

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