Carly Fiorina has supplied yet another reason she should not get anywhere near the White House. Forget about her supporting the DREAM Act, although that’s bad enough.
She thinks a Muslim should be president. Responding to Ben Carson’s belief that Muslim should not be president, Fiorina explained where Carson erred to Jimmy Fallon:
Jimmy Fallon: Ben Carson is in a lot of trouble now because he is saying that he would not advocate a Muslim being president.
Carly Fiorina: Well, I think that’s wrong. It says in our Constitution that religion cannot be a test for office. It’s also true that this country was founded on the principle that we judge each individual and that anyone of any faith is welcome here. I actually believe that people of faith make better leaders. Where they are Christians, as I am, my faith has sustained me through some very bad times. I’ve battled cancer, I’ve lost a child, I’ve been tested. But, whether it’s a person of Christian faith, or Jewish faith, or Muslim faith, or other faiths, I think faith gives us humility and empathy and optimism and I think those are important.
Fallon: So you would be fine with that?
Fiorina: Yes, I would be fine with that.
Here, Fiorina not only betrays a stupendous ignorance of Islam and Muslims, but also tells a big fib: i.e., “This country was founded on the principle that we judge each individual and that anyone of any faith is welcome here”
Not according to John Jay, one of the Founding Fathers. “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers,” he wrote in a letter.
As for who should come into the country, Jay wrote thusly in Federalist No. 2: “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs.”
The idea that the founders, including Adams and Jefferson, thought anyone could be an American is flatly ridiculous.
Keep in mind that in the late 18th-century, the mass migration of two bazillion Muslims or Mexicans was not possible.
She has always had zero prospect of being President.
The only people running who have any prospect of being President are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
No Establishment Republican other than JEB Bush can win on the Republican side. Hillary is a shoo-in for the Democrat nomination unless Biden steps in, in which case he will be the nominee.
So, if the Republicans take out Trump, it will be Jeb versus Hillary. Hillary wins.
If it's Trump versus Hillary, Trump wins.
If it's Jeb versus Biden, Biden wins.
If it's Trump vs. Biden, well now, THAT is a real horse-race.
The only people running who have any prospect of being President are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Neither one of them has a chance. Even the Dims secretly hate and mistrust Bubbette!,and The Donald is only running to improve the value of his name/trade mark. He wants to able to say in the future that he "COULD have been president if I wanted,but the office is below me,so I dropped out to make a few more billion before I retire."
Trump is NOT going to put all his money and property into a blind trust to be handled by anyone else,period. Not even his daughter,who is probably more qualified to run a big business than he is. He has a ego the size of the universe,and there is no way he will ever accept anybody else could run it as well as he does.
I think that Trump will stay in to the primary votes, that he'll start running up victories, and he'll decide that adding "President Trump" to his titles suits him great.
You think he's playing us like the circus barker he is. We'll see. I'll be disappointed if Trump drops out, because then I have no candidate to vote for at all.
