Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said running against Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 presidential election would be “a dream come true” because of her disastrous progressive policies.
“If Hillary is the candidate, which I doubt, that would be a dream come true,” Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, said during the first GOP debate Thursday night. “She is the epitome of the center-progressive movement.”
Mr. Carson was responding to a question about how he would campaign against Mrs. Clinton’s expected “rich versus poor” line of attack against the eventual GOP nominee.
“She counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the [Saul] Alinsky model, taking advantage of ’useful idiots,’” Mr. Carson said. “I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.”
He said he would “help people understand that it is the progressive movement that is causing the problems.”
“You look at the national debt, and how it’s being driven up,” he said. “If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military … and that’s what she’s doing.”
• Dave Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.
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