Republican means never having to say you’re sorry
by digby
Somebody forgot to tell Ben Carson:
The retired neurosurgeon explained his apology to Donald Trump in a new interview, saying that he was not questioning the real estate mogul’s faith but rather talking about his own. And he does not blame Trump for retaliating.
“I said something that sounded like I was questioning his faith. I really wasn’t, I was really talking more about mine. But it was said in an inappropriate way, which I recognized and I apologized for that. It’s never my intention to impugn other people,” the Republican presidential candidate said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Monday.
The imbroglio began last week at a campaign appearance in which Carson credited his faith for his success, in contrast to Trump, a Presbyterian who has said that he has never asked God for forgiveness and declined to name his favorite Bible verse in a previous interview, calling it “very personal.”
“I’ve realized where my success has come from, and I don’t in any way deny my faith in God,” Carson said last week in Anaheim, California. “And I think that is the big difference.”
Trump took umbrage at the remark, tweeting about his success with Evangelical voters and later calling Carson “not a great religious figure.”“He took the bait because it was presented to you as, ‘Carson’s attacking you,’” Carson told the WSJ. “And I understand that. I don’t blame him for that.”
That’s nice. But remember folks, he’s not really the “anti-Trump”. His ideas are even further out than The Donald’s are.
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