GOP superstar Ben Carson believes that the President of the United States can just ignore Supreme Court rulings. Did I mention that he wants to be the President?

“First of all, we have to understand how the Constitution works, the president is required to carry out the laws of the land, the laws of the land come from the legislative branch,” Carson said. “So if the legislative branch creates a law or changes a law, the executive branch has a responsibly to carry it out. It doesn’t say they have the responsibility to carry out a judicial law.”

Ow, ow, ow!  Okay that is WAY too much stupid for my brain to take in.

This courtesy of the Rachel Maddow Show: 

As should be obvious to anyone who passed Civics 101 at a high-school level, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final word on the constitutionality of American laws. Sometimes, the legislative branch passes a law, but it’s challenged in the courts, and if a high court majority strikes it down, then it can’t legally be enforced by the executive branch. 

There is no such thing as “a judicial law.” 

The fact that Carson doesn’t understand this is alarming. The fact that he prefaced his comments by saying we “have to understand how the Constitution works” is rather sad.

I essentially have the same response to Ben Carson that I do to Ted Cruz.

The Republicans keep telling me how smart they are, but I literally cannot see it. 

I mean I understand that Carson has to be intelligent enough to have become a brain surgeon, but it sort of feels as if that intelligence is really only applicable to medicine and not to politics.

Oh and by Carson's contention that Atheists lack compassion and have no values and principles really pissed me off as well.