Posted on 09/29/2015 1:46:41 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Next Republican Debate, To Be Broadcast By CNBC, Will Require Candidates to Demonstrate "Viability" to Take the Stage; Will Have Fewer Than 10 Candidates
Chuck Todd is creating the ground-rules, so you know: Gold Standard.
Obviously, those candidates at the bottom are making noise about this. Being eliminated from the debate -- and there is not yet any word of a second-tier debate, as we've had in the past -- would be close to an Official Word from The Cathedral that some candidates aren't real candidates.
And we'd have the Media playing their favorite role once again: The Deciders.
Politico's Alex Isenstat and Hadas Gold:
While the RNC doesnt set the rules, it does have a voice in working with the networks running the debates. The committee has not said how many candidates will be allowed into the primetime debate, which will be held in Boulder, Colorado, and broadcast on CNBC. Nor are there any indications there will be an undercard event, as there have been in the first two debate showdowns of the primary season.
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A senior adviser to another Republican candidate also expressed suspicion that the party was looking to winnow the field of candidates. "Insiders in Washington want to limit the debates because they want their two favorites, Bush and Rubio, to take on Donald Trump," the adviser said. "They're whispering in [RNC Chairman] Reince Priebuss ear that, The stage is too big, make it smaller."
The radio silence extends beyond the entry criteria to other aspects of the debate -- such as who the moderators will be, and how long the duration will be.
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"Let's just say the goal is to create a threshold that candidates have to meet to qualify for the stage rather than committing to putting 10 candidates on the stage. And I dont think we should commit to more than 10-candidate debates. You have to be viable. So now we're in debate three it's time to show viability and only the viable ones survive," Todd said during an interview on ESPN radio last week.
"It's time to show viability." Where do these assholes get this kind of cocky false authority to issue pronouncements like that, as if speaking on behalf of the Pope?
Wots next...sustainability...?
first a "needs assessment"...followed by a "Delphi Group" and a "Focus Group" to wrap it all up.
...and for good measure an EPA audit of Trumps emissions on the campaign trail (no pun intendedz0
Get it down to six. The 1 and 2 per centers have no chance.
{Why does it seem like a race against an incumbent? Are the Rats just skipping the entire primary process?}
Maybe they know something we don’t.
Hmmm. You may be onto something there. ;^]
Call it a hunch...or a strong suspicion.
I really have nothing to back it up though ;)
I'm pretty sure that any candidate who participates in a debate not sanctioned by the RNC is barred from future "official" debates.
Bio - Dome ?
How is Hillary viable? She is a damn crook.
Continuing the sleazy racket they’ve run for years, the media will rig the debates to make certain the candidates with the most advertising dollars to spend with the media remain in the race as long as humanly possible. Hence, Jeb will be swatting at whiffle balls all night.
“A senior adviser to another Republican candidate also expressed suspicion that the party was looking to winnow the field of candidates. “Insiders in Washington want to limit the debates because they want their two favorites, Bush and Rubio, to take on Donald Trump,” the adviser said.”
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They are looking to dump on Trump and eliminate Cruz. I like the ten candidates on stage because it helps Trump and Cruz.
This is the reason I vote to discontinue these stupid debates. They are a dog and pony show and give the networks something to talk about 24/7 for a week or so. We have some who are good debaters and some who aren’t. Calvin Coolidge would never have been elected if he had to stand on a debate stage. I’d much rather watch and listen to them on the campaign trail at rallies and town halls than listen to this dribble.
Gee, what would be the first clue?
Pliability? That would include doughboy Cris Cristie.
It’s a secret hidden with Mark Levin’s final inch for leaving the GOP. No one can find it either.
Why bother anymore...
Just get together and have a ‘debate’ among yourselves
Trump could use one of his hall rooms and offer access to the room by TV cameras and it would STILL generate more viewers than anything else on TV.
AND WHY IS IT ALWAYS LIBTARDS QUESTIONING THEM? THEY WOULD BLOW A GASKET IF THE DEBATE WERE MODERATED BY RUSH, AND HANNITY, AND LEVIN.
They were going to use one of those big hooks to yank them off the stage if they don’t perform as required by F. Chuck,
but they were afraid Miss Lindsey G. would just run away with it to accessorize his Miss Muffet outfit.
The GOP debaters should go on stage and declare that weasel Chuck Todd a partisan democrat propagandist and not allow him to ask questions. They can carry on a debate among themselves without that Stalinist tool.
Good grief! Is this writer’s vocabulary so limited that he had to end with the vulgarity in the last sentence? Disgusting word.
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