There is the Fox contract.
There's also the overall unimportance of debates this far out from the first primary voting.
Why give the media chances to ask questions designed to make you look bad. The media is 100% on Obama's side in this race. Anything they are doing with the Republicans, they are doing to discredit all the Republican candidates. When Palin gets in, she'll be the focus of more of that than any other candidate. She's letting the media soften up the rest of the Republican field with some early salvos first.
And make no mistake, this is a CNN debate masquerading as a "TEA Party" event. They want the TEA Party there to make these candidates look extreme. The folks at CNN are in no way trying to legitimize the TEA Party. They are trying to support The Won's statement this morning that the TEA Party is so extreme, and that "the vast majority of Americans" have rejected the TEA Party and what it stands for. That's the goal tonight, along with tying the Republican candidates to that (supposedly) rejected platform.
Sadly I was mistaken in my belief that conservatives had learned anything from previous elections. Unfortunately conservatives are even more willing to trade their principles for the first RINO to rattle the grain bucket.
It just amazes me that now we’re not only trying to eliminate candidates before the first vote is taken but even before the candidates even decide on running.
I’m not even a Palin supporter and I’m not counting her out.
>> “And make no mistake, this is a CNN debate masquerading as a “TEA Party” event. They want the TEA Party there to make these candidates look extreme.” <<
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Exactly, and also, TPX is NOT the TEA Party! - TPX is a media group themselves, and are trying to hijack the TEA Party name.
Nailed it!
Why give the media chances to ask questions designed to make you look bad. The media is 100% on Obama's side in this race. Anything they are doing with the Republicans, they are doing to discredit all the Republican candidates.
The same logic explains her delayed entry into the race. There's simply nothing for her to gain by being a part of the early stages of this contest.
Cooler and wiser minds see this clearly. Even her unhinged detractors sense it, which is why they've seized on the "she's not running" mantra of the left to explain what she's doing.
They're actually scared to death that she really is running. It's a strange sort of paranoia, but interesting to watch.