Actually, he’s right. The founders envisioned the citizen representative who would serve for a term or two and then go home, not the professional political class.
Via The Blaze:
Republican presidential contender Ben Carson turned to Facebook Wednesday night to address concerns from those who complain he doesn’t have enough political experience to be commander-in-chief.
In a lengthy note, the retired neurosurgeon explained that he’s had several people ask him “what they should tell their friends when people say, ‘I like Carson but he has no political experience.’”
“You are absolutely right — I have no political experience,” he bluntly acknowledged. “The current Members of Congress have a combined 8,700 years of political experience. Are we sure political experience is what we need?”