Thomas F. Schaller's piece on Ben Carson is nothing more than an ad hominem attack, an attack more appropriate to a blog from the fever swamps of the ideological left than a nationally-recognized newspaper ("Carson, stick to medicine," Feb. 4). Frank Kent has to be spinning in his grave.
Mr. Schaller's metaphors and similes are both preposterous and lazy so no, I don't want Mr. Schaller doing brain surgery on me. What exactly does that have to do with Dr. Carson's views or fitness for the office? The presidency is too important for amateurs? An amateur inhabits the office now. What fact in this community organizer's life suited him for his current position?
I could discuss at length the virtues of the flat tax and the wisdom and prominence of the people who have advocated it, but I would need a column at least the length of Mr. Schaller's and a newspaper with the courage to publish it. The Sun can do much better.
Thomas F. McDonough, Towson