Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina failed on Friday to correct a man she was speaking to in a New Hampshire restaurant who called President Obama a “dictator” and a “black Muslim.”
ABC News posted video of the interaction that took place in Milford, New Hampshire.
“Anybody other than the dictator we got up there now,” the man told Fiorina. “And I mean that. He is a dictator.”
The former Hewlett-Packard chief executive shrugged as she went on to talk about the President’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
“He doesn’t want this country to get ahead,” the man said as Fiorina started to turn toward another table. “He doesn’t. He’s a Muslim. He’s a black Muslim.”
Fiorina turned back toward the man.
“Well, time to do something different in many ways,” she said.
Watch it below, via ABC News:
C-word!! C-word!! C-word!!
Another gutless republican uninterested in the truth. She needs all the wacko votes she can get. Shame on you Carly for more proof of your lack of integrity.
These fucking cowards. A black muslim? Have the stones to call him what you really want to call him! Show the world who you really are, you redneck, inbred, hillbilly shitbags. See? It’s not too difficult to say what you want to say.
And Carly Fiorina is a hater of the middle-class and poor. She is also a white bitch with an ugly heart. What’s your point, rude, ignorant man?
Just one of the many reasons it’d suck to be a Republican politician these days. Had she pushed back against any of this, he would have dismissed her immediately as a fool, and if word got out that she doesn’t think Obama is a Muslim dictator; she’d sink in the polls. So she says nothing and looks like she tolerates loons.
And this isn’t going to stop until Republican leaders finally band together and actively push back against the crazy. But it’s just a variation of the prisoner’s dilemma. As long as there’s a Republican candidate willing to feed the crazies, the rest of them will become part of the meal unless they play along too. And with guys like Trump and Carson, they’re not only happy to feed the crazies but are eagerly feasting along with them.
And there’s no end in sight for this. The louder the crazies are, the more they push away the moderates, which only make the crazies louder. And the only solution is for Republicans to finally let the craziest of the crazies split off and aim for the middle. But that won’t happen until after they lose in 2016, and likely not until they lose in 2020.