Amen!
If yeb? doesn't call it off now, he has no good sense and no shame.
Posted on 12/16/2015 6:02:10 AM PST by RightGeek
There were, literally, more candidates on stage for Tuesday night’s Republican debate than there were at a Jeb! Bush debate watching “party†in Miami.
Once again, in the name of “fairness,†the media has utterly swindled the GOP.
By keeping the stage crammed with a couple of actual front-runners and cluttered with has-been also-rans like Ohio Gov. John Kasich, debate moderators are managing to do what once seemed impossible: Boring voters even though real estate mogul Donald Trump is still on the debate stage. They will stop at nothing to water down the goliath front-runner for the GOP nomination.
Mr. Trump is ahead of the pack by a wider margin than Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton, yet he is stuck scrounging for time on stage with at least five candidates who are getting beat in the polls by “margin of error.â€
Instead of a substantive debates with actual front-runners, we get these shoutfests with nine people, each one wasting their microphone time to complain about getting short-shrift or barking at one another over irrelevant details.
The result is that they sound like a bunch of whining lunatics in an insane asylum having hysterical arguments over the remote control. Think “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest†when Randle McMurphy just wants to watch the World Series: “Which one of you nuts has got any guts?â€
It doesn’t help that just about every question begins with, “Donald Trump said …â€
It is like some kind of therapy session for a group of people suffering from Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome. It got so bad Tuesday night that Mr. Trump himself finally called out moderators for making him a star of even the undercard GOP debate — that he wasn’t even in!
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The debates remind me of the movie They Shoot Horses, Don’t They.
Agreed. How about a final 4 debate to start out the new year.
Did that 20+ years ago, when the idiot box went to the Salvation Army.
Final 4....Trump, Cruz, Rubio........but who is #4?
Heck, their support IS the margin of error.
A poll with a 3-5% margin, and they're polling in the 3-5% range.
Amen!
If yeb? doesn't call it off now, he has no good sense and no shame.
or less... 0.02% in some cases. (1 out of 500 people would vote for them.)
Wasn’t it the RNC that wanted the low pollers on stage?
What's funny is some of the same people who are now making that claim in years past have complained when the threat or actual shutout of their pet candidate was about to occur or did. There were claims of silencing candidates and more. Funny how the worm turns sometimes.
OMG that’s pathetic
That Trump and Cruz permit these things suggests again that they suffer from lapses in judgment from time to time.
The GOPe wants them all there hoping one of them will say something to cause the fall of Trump or Cruz. Without the GOPe stacking the audience how could Bush or Rubio have more supporters in the crowd than Trump or Cruz? The two of them should have a conversation with tje GOPe and say either we have a voice in the audience selection or we will have our own debate. Can you imagine the GOP debate without the two of them? Can you imagine a debate audience ratings with just the two of them!
Here's the link to the Drudge Poll: http://drudgereport.com/nowlv.htm
The top four candidates are registering 90% of the vote. I believe in more scientific polls, the top four are registering something similar. IMHO, they should take an average of the intervening polls and then allow only the top four or five on stage for the next major debate.
1988. I came home late from work one night and saw my wife and three oldest kids laid out in the living room, all with their mouths open staring at a presidential debate. None of them seemed to notice me coming in. I took the box out to the alley and put a piece of cement block through the screen. There has not been one in the house since. It took wife a couple of months to get over it but she came to despise TVs, too, and won’t stay more than a few minutes at a friends house if the friend has the TV on and is disinclined to turn it off. Three of my four do not watch TV nor do their own children. The fourth makes videos and wins prizes with them. He is entwined with it all.
FioRINO, because, she’s a woman! Any other way is a war on women! /s
I disagree with the idea that it was a snoozefest. I thought the highlight of the night was that finally Rubio had to answer for his amnesty plan and involvement with the “gang of eight”. I was loving that and Rubio was furious about it. Payback for a huge betrayal. He tried to weasel out of it, but he was unable to. Best day of the campaign season.
Before anybody jumps on me, I voted in Florida and contributed to Rubio long before anyone knew who he was. I followed him closely and supported him against that snake Crist. When he started hanging out with Chuck as hummer and pushing amnesty. I sent an email and let him know I was done. I have been waiting many years for this accountability to come through.
Wow... you sound like a lot of fun.
Have you sought counseling for this obsessive need for control?
If you don't like the format blame the RNC and the candidates.
It still bodes well for Trump, though.
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