Posted on 11/08/2015 11:41:57 AM PST by GIdget2004
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson endorsed statehood for Puerto Rico at a Sunday campaign event on the island.
"In a Carson administration, I will leave no stone unturned in my efforts to secure this important step in Puerto Rico's history -- establishing Estado 51," said the retired neurosurgeon, highlighting the strategic benefits of the Caribbean island's location relative to the United States mainland.  Amid mounting scrutiny recently over his past, Carson traveled to the island territory to address a statehood advocacy group convention. The campaign estimated that 3,500 people were attended the New Progressive Party rally, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.
"Mis hermanos Americanos, my campaign is built around the premise of 'We the People,' and through such lens, I view the statehood question in Puerto Rico as settled," Carson said, referring to a 2012 referendum in which a majority of island voters backed making Puerto Rico the 51st state.
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How is it that no one asks the citizens of the United States if WE want Puerto Rico to even be a protectorate? Cut them loose. They give us nothing but mouths to feed.
If he were to become president, all sorts of RINOs and gift horses will be sidling up to him to help him figure out how to be a president.
He would need a lot of help and the people he chooses will probably not be the type who will help to steer things right.
Because we need two more far left-wing Democrat U.S. Senators and a bunch more far left-wing Democrat Congresscritters all voting how to spend our money.
I don’t think PR is a good fit in the U.S., culturally.
Cuba is way too high energy to do a Ben Carson.
Have him lose about 70lbs, grow a moustache and get his hair ‘processed’, then maybe Cuba could do a good Al Sharpton.
Wait a second—ain’t Puerto Rico as tipsy-tricksy as Guam?
We don’t want any damn jackpot here, hold on, glub glub ..
Ben Carson is a faux conservative who entered the race as a spoiler. I wonder who is paying for his campaign?
Newton Gingrich backed this c. 1998; he was soon out as Speaker, not for that reason though.
Everytime this is put to a vote of the Puerto Rican people, they say ‘No’ to statehood. What they need is a Supreme Court like we have, one that overrides the sentiment of the voters ‘because they can!’ and never looks back.
First a state and then state aid. Puerto Rico is third world.
This guy is for the birds.
Nope!
We tried to warn you about Carson.
Do they have English announcements at Puerto Rican Home Depots?
If PR were to become a state Spanish would be an official language of the US. (Not that we’re that far away now)
Press 2 for English.
Carson is done.
Make it stop...
This is going to hurt him badly.
It's like moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Everybody promises it, but nobody does it. Nobody's wife or brother will do it either if they get elected.
I also just think we don’t need another state that is not contiguous to the N American continent. Alaska and HI are enough.
In search of...
A permanent senate minority.
Same here. If they wanted statehood they would have taught their citizens English. But on the other hand it just isn’t freedom when Congress controls the territory while its citizens can not vote in US elections. So I agree with you, they should become an independent nation state.
Disagreeing with Carson on policy matters and joining with Politico to slander the man are two different things.
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