Posted on 05/22/2015 3:56:32 PM PDT by conservative98
Let me see if I can help you make sense of it.
You have heard the concept that to understand someone you need to walk a mile in his shoes? Right? Well put yourself in their place. What if your favorite candidate were excluded?
Who you call a fake, they call a good candidate. No one in injured by fairness.
What are you even doing on a conservative political site, or any political?
Shouldn’t you be eating tofu and chanting with someone?
We have an election to win, we want to see effective debates from effective and substantive candidates.
It’s called culling the herd, there is not swaths of primary voters who will drop out of voting in 2016 because some of the bottom feeding phonies are assisted out.
Has-been’s who have had their day and didn’t make the cut last time. Sadly, they look like they are driven by their egos. We look stronger if we cut off air time usually allowed losers. They are distractions and make us look weak.
Yo Rick! And I care, Why?
I don’t think it would work as well with undecideds, especially women.
Well we should find out instead of cowering as we do every election over that issue. Either treat them as equals or don’t. If we lose because of it, then the country is well beyond saving anyway.
Yeah, Ricky had me taken in for a while, I must admit.
“Piyush picked John Alerio. Un-indicted co-conspirator of Edwin E. Edwards. Do some homework, damnit!”
Good to know, I was going to give Jindal a pass. But we have to narrow the field fast to gut Jeb.
Cruz, Walker, Paul, Rubio, Bush. Maybe winnow to those five for now and get to a real debate. We have a good bench but 19 is too many.
I see it as more of a stratagem. And I think it would be interesting to see.
When it was down to him, Mitt, Newt, and Paul, I felt he was easily the best choice. And the most viable challenger to Romney.
But yes, he ran a poor race, he boxed himself in as the “social conservative” candidate, one note campaign. He has no business trying again.
Exactly. I guess campaigning beats getting a real job.
It should be the top five, not the top ten.
Santorum sounds whingy and petulant.
He lacks the ability to lead.
Totally agree.
Some candidates use the campaign trail to gain followers and to gin up publicity for future book/TV/radio deals.
Santorum, Huckabee, etc.
It needs to come to an end.
Thank you for the link.
Limiting it to ten is arbitrary, but so what?
This isn’t elementary school. Everyone does not get a ribbon for participation.
Santorum is a bad sport.
I’m not sure Bush will make it to the top five.
Exactly who is clambering for another heaping helping at the Bush trough?
Jeb strikes me as incredibly entitled and unprepared. Already many missteps, plus issues with his family.
Could be wrong, but I don’t see it.
If it takes two or more debates, the audience tunes out and ends up relying on ads.
Then the guy with the most money for ads wins the nomination.
See: 2012.
The presidential primaries are getting to be like the Kentucky Derby, way too many entrants.
Absolutely. Think you’ve nailed it.
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