May I humbly suggest a scenario to root for? Since this will probably sink Carson and Fiorina's pro-Islam speech will probably sink her, the Cruz surge is probably coming. We want to see him stubbornly trail only Trump by only 5 points after he has made such a big show of (a) declining to attack anyone (b) cozying up to Trump. And then a frantic Cruz vs Trump to close out the year? That's fun.
This could sink Carson. No one gives a crap about Fiorina saying nice things about non-al Qaeda Muslims outside some Washington Express writer and Democrats on Atlas though.
I think the opposite is true. Democrats on Atlas don't care about it. A GOP primary electorate who fears Sharia Law will imminently replace the Constitution would care if she gets enough momentum for an opponent to promote this.
No Republican politician is going to launch an openly racist attack on her for saying that not all Muslims are bad.
Famous Mortimer, is there anything you would like to say to the board?
It turns out this was unnecessary to derail Fiorina but had she otherwise been able to maintain momentum and been where Carson is now, this would have been the scandal that ended her. (Likewise, it seems Carson getting caught as a serial liar and Ted Cruz hitting all the right notes might make it superfluous to hit him on fetal tissue research.) Anyway, the reason I dug this up was because I think the hypothetical scenario I posed in the initial quote is coming to frightening fruition. Trump is in Cruz's way and so Cruz will have to comically reverse himself on his Trump praise and self-righteous vow to refrain from attacks. Better than that, Rubio echoed the same ostensibly noble sentiment as Cruz and they've been furiously trading shots. Fun stuff.
