That’s not what Islam is about.
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Trump isn’t the only GOP favorite to take a recent stumble. Goldberg’s suggestion that Carson only needed to study more to be a presidential contender generously conceals the reality that Carson’s know-nothingism is a core value, not the accidental result of failure to do his homework. An accurate poll in Iowa, therefore, should list 80 percent as still undecided.
How things have changed.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s support has fallen by 12 points in less than a week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. News has looked at the poll numbers and added them up to conclude only one thing: Trump supporters are big fat racists.
Kovaleski had criticized the candidate’s statements claiming that he saw thousands of Arab New Jersey residents people cheering as the World Trade Center towers went down on September 11, 2001.
Donald Trump addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio.
This was a flawless opportunity for Mr. Trump’s rivals to reject fear-mongering.
While Trump struck an apologetic tone, the celebrity billionaire turned Republican presidential frontrunner also made it clear that he doesn’t like Kovaleski or the paper which now employs him.
Nor was Chris Christie, who happens to be governor of New Jersey, willing to challenge Mr. Trump. “A friend of mind called me and said, “Forget that, you’re the first guy that really predicted terrorism”.
“Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East”, complained Duane R. Carridge, a former Central Intelligence Agency agent and Reagan administration foreign policy official who is advising Dr. Carson and debunked his assertion about China and Syria. Gov. Christie said he wouldn’t accept Syrian refugees even if they are “orphans under 5”. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) with 10.7 percent, and Bush with 9 percent.
Fortunately, some of those in the race have taken a more sober view. Rand Paul said he opposed a registry and any special surveillance of mosques.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), for example, sent out a tweet about his campaign merchandise.
Rather than hurting Mr Trump’s standing, the comments have cemented his poll lead. Martin O’Malley raised the prospect of “fascism” taking over.
Last weekend he declared that if elected, he would bring back waterboarding – the controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning but which has been scrapped by President Barack Obama after monitoring agencies said it amounted to torture.
And it was just a few weeks ago that many Republican leaders were intelligent enough to know better.
Anyone who is not concerned with millions upon millions of cheap laborers swarming our country illegally is either a Democrat eager for the votes, or an elite journalist who need not worry about a low-cost illegal stealing his job.
Why are Republican candidates adopting this strategy?
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Crises such as these are the moments when real leadership has a chance to emerge.
