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First Presidential Debate in Works for Republicans
ABC News ^ | October 30, 2014 | By STEVE PEOPLES

Posted on 10/30/2014 3:51:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The 2014 midterm elections are days away, but preparation are already underway for the first debate of the 2016 presidential primary contest.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation announced on Thursday that it will invite GOP presidential candidates to attend a televised debate at California's Reagan Library in September 2015.

While the Regan Library hosted GOP debates in the last two presidential contests, it's unclear if the Republican National Committee will sanction the one now set for Sept. 16, 2015.

The RNC recently approved new rules that would limit the number of presidential primary debates.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; abcdisneynews; election2016; pravdamedia; thefixisin
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1 posted on 10/30/2014 3:51:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let me guess. The Republicans want to schedule the debates early so that Chris Matthews can be named moderator before his schedule gets too booked up.


2 posted on 10/30/2014 3:53:02 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: Maceman

Gotta have time to line up all of the Marxist “journalists”


3 posted on 10/30/2014 3:56:08 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can someone please tell the GOPee to go screw off.

They are not a part of OUR game plan this time around,

They can go straight to hell as far as I am concerned.

All they do is trash decent people and support the biggest RINOs they can identify.

—— ‘em! We’ve followed their lead to oblivion, even managing to give us Obola in the end. (twice)


4 posted on 10/30/2014 3:56:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
No lefty reporters hijacking the debate terms, please. Let us select our candidate based on the issues that are important to us, not those of the radical left.
5 posted on 10/30/2014 3:56:39 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

New rules to limit the number of primary debates.

I sincerely hope so.


6 posted on 10/30/2014 4:10:55 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
While the Regan Library hosted GOP debates

Geez, he was president for eight years and ABC still can't spell it correctly. Really??

7 posted on 10/30/2014 4:15:53 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why not provide fodder for the Rats to attack attack the Pubies.


8 posted on 10/30/2014 4:17:53 PM PDT by golf lover (goingf)
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To: berdie
New rules to limit the number of primary debates.

...in a desperate attempt to limit Rick Perry bloopers.

9 posted on 10/30/2014 4:17:56 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the 2016 presidential primary contest.

Soooo....Is anyone actively working on killing all the "open primaries" before they slaughter us again in the next election?

10 posted on 10/30/2014 4:21:42 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Please
no
more
debates


11 posted on 10/30/2014 4:25:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

What is there to debate regarding domestic issues? After all, one of the very few powers that the states have delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, to regulate an aspect of intrastate commerce is to decide policy for the US Mail Service, such power evidenced by the Constitution’s Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I.

So the Republican candidates are going to debate the price of postage stamps, right?


12 posted on 10/30/2014 4:29:42 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh Dear Lord please no. I’d almost rather have no debates. I’m still reeling from the 2012 debates.


13 posted on 10/30/2014 4:41:14 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can we at least minimize this topic until next Wednesday?


14 posted on 10/30/2014 5:01:12 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: OrangeHoof

I have to agree...he made some doozy bloopers.

But if these people are allowed to talk too much...they all do, lol. It just makes me more aware of how vulnerable we are to idiocy. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. :)


15 posted on 10/30/2014 5:05:06 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Not this crap again. Make them go away.

First of all they are not debates, they are managed information sessions with facetime for the moderators.

Second they are an exercise in fratricide. They do more for the dims for free than any campaigning does.

Third. Republican party leadership should remove the wannabe's because let's face it, people are still saying "Who's Jon Huntsman?"

16 posted on 10/30/2014 5:19:17 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: OrangeHoof
...in a desperate attempt to limit Rick Perry bloopers.

No, it's an attempt to make sure their "moderate" candidates don't get to beat up too bad by the truth spoken by any conservatives running for POTUS.
17 posted on 10/30/2014 5:28:15 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: pfflier
Third. Republican party leadership should remove the wannabe's because let's face it, people are still saying "Who's Jon Huntsman?"

To the party leadership(GOP-E), anyone more conservative than Jeb Bush is a "wannabe".
18 posted on 10/30/2014 5:29:08 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They better stick by their pledge of no Lefty moderators.


19 posted on 10/30/2014 5:38:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SoConPubbie
I sincerely believe that the field should be reduced to two leaders by whatever methods then only those two debate.

And when I say debate, I mean they sit face to face then a moderator throws a piece of raw meat between them to see who is the alpha candidate.

20 posted on 10/30/2014 5:39:55 PM PDT by pfflier
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