◼ A Big Tent indeed: a pediatric neurosurgeon and former CEO (the anti-Hillary) simultaneously enter the GOP presidential race. - Roger L. Simon/PJM
Because of the traffic jam that is the Republican presidential competition, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson both ended up announcing on Monday nearly at the same time.
Does it matter? No, not much. There’s a long way to go and neither is anything close to a frontrunner. Indeed, the conventional wisdom is that neither has a chance.
Is that true? I’d like to think not. We’ll certainly be following them closely on the forthcoming “Diary of a Mad Voter” (debuting Monday, May 11) because they are two of the more interesting presidential candidates to have come along in a while, largely because they are not professional politicians, but are highly accomplished in other areas. Somewhere James Madison and Thomas Jefferson must be smiling. That is exactly what they intended. (Well, we like to think so anyway.)
Both have fascinating backgrounds....
