Outsider could wage a Ross Perot-style crusade against the national debt, if only his tongue would get out of the way It's safe to say that Ben Carson , the celebrated neurosurgeon and inspirational speaker who announced his presidential candidacy Monday, will not win the GOP nomination. Not only because the lone political novice to win a major party's presidential nod since World War II was the more familiar-to-Americans Dwight Eisenhower , but because Carson is running on his inexperience and rhetorical dazzle after seven years of a previously inexperienced president made originally famous by his speeches and books .