White House: Carson’s Muslim Remarks Will Haunt GOPers On Election Day

Ben Carson, former neurosurgeon, addresses the 42nd annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) February 26, 2015 in National Harbor, Maryland.Photo by Olivier Douliery/Sipa USA
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GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson’s remarks that he would not back a Muslim President are “entirely inconsistent with the Constitution,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday.

Earnest said while some of Carson’s fellow Republicans have shied away from condemning the comments as they jockey for votes, continuing to “countenance offensive views” could come back to burn them on Election Day.

“Ultimately, there will be consequences, and those views will be taken into account by voters, not only in the primary, but also the general election,” Earnest told journalists.

The retired neurosurgeon said on Sunday‘s “Meet the Press” he would “not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation” because Sharia, or Islamic law, is not consistent with “the Constitution of this country.”

Carson’s dabbling in “creeping Sharia” rhetoric days comes after frontrunner Donald Trump sparked criticism for not correcting a man at a New Hampshire town hall who claimed President Obama is a secret Muslim and asked “when can we get rid of” Muslims in America.

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  1. Yeah, but let’s be honest.

    There’ve been thousands of stories on this in the last two days.

    Carson is in third place, I think, behind Carly and Donald. What’s to say the publicity, freer and more widespread than the debates last week, doesn’t ratchet him up a few points?

    And three million Muslims? Wouldn’t that be great if the margin between the two candidates was somewhere around that number, the difference between winning and losing?

  2. BS, nobody is going to care over a year from now what Carson said about whether or not he would support a Muslim for President.

    Carson is not and was never going to be the Republican nominee, neither is Trump, neither is Fiorina, neither is …outsider. The nominee is either going to be Bush, Kasich or Rubio vs Hillary or Biden.

  3. Wait a minute. Don’t discount Rick Perry on a strong write-in vote!

  4. All in the same handwriting. His.

  5. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    …yeh…like the 9-9-9 guy.

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