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The man is a brilliant doctor................how does that qualify him to be Commander In Chief? Not knowing anything about his political views, I'm very skeptical at this point. I'm really looking for someone who can read the Constitution and follow it for a change. Otherwise
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Sort of off topic because I'm not a fan of Carson at all and this doesn't really apply to him, but MDs are VASTLY overrepresented in the austrian and libertarian communities, so much so that the type of austrianism that doctors tend to hold shapes the community, mostly for the better but sometimes not so much.
MDs are about five times as likely to self-identify as libertarians as non-MDs. I believe the ethical training has a lot to do with it, "first do no harm" applied to governance.
Overall, I'd much prefer a doctor to a lawyer, but they do tend to have weaknesses, an overabundance of caution and a strong distrust of kinetic problem solving being the obvious ones. They also tend not to be as skilled at the political game as the lawyers.