Posted on 07/07/2015 5:32:11 PM PDT by Mariner
Thanks to Steven Shepard of Tiger Beat on the Potomac—and to kindly Doc Maddow, who's been on this story as well—we get a further illustration that there is no institutional Republican party worth discussion anymore, and that the people attempting to put a semblance of an organized primary process together would screw up a two-car funeral if you spotted them the hearse.
...Fox News Channel will average together the latest polls of the Republican field and determine which 10 of the 16 announced candidates will participate in the first debate in Cleveland. Making the cut gives a candidate the platform to stand out in a crowded field; not making the cut leaves him or her knocking on the door. Every candidate—with the exceptions of Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Marco Rubio—is in danger of losing his or her place. That leaves the rest of the field hoping their numbers will tick up at just the right time, knowing that the tiniest fluctuation of numbers could be the difference between acceptance and rejection. The difference between being on the main debate stage and being relegated to the B-team is likely be at most 1 or 2 percentage points.
Believe me that I say this without an ounce of partisanship, but this process is just completely fcking nuts.
(Excerpt) Read more at esquire.com ...
If it wasn't for Trump they'd have to go after the other Republicans.
With Cruz and Trump in the debates, most of the ones who make the
cut in the debate, may wish they hadn’t.
As opposed to the Democratic process of coronating an incompetent and unimaginably corrupt old drunk shrew with only token opposition from a silly old pants-wetting socialist.
Cruz and Trump had better be included in the first debate or the GOP can GTH.
If he has no chance, why?
Exactly so.
He has a *yuge* chance, as in *youthful* and Silent Majority chance!
I tell you, I was shocked to see on FB today that my youngest, non-political son, is ALL IN FOR TRUMP!
Plus that, his FB friends said, “me too, etc.”
Just WOW!
You might get more face time NOT being in the debates. As it stands now ten people on stage in a two hour program would allow exactly twelve minutes of time to say anything, most of which will be wasted on answering nonsense questions. That is if oit is equal time and no questions from moderators.
Best advise: Thank them for the wonderful question and them go into a speech about a hot button issue you wish to highlight regardless of the question.
More anti-Republican rhetoric from Liberal cheerleaders on the Left.
Yawn.
This is Esquire. Headquarters of the pussification of the American male.
I agree. When Romney is described as a moral leader of the GOP, there really isn’t much of a GOP left.
I find it very sad.
+1
Yah, what you said.
It’s funny to watch the low info voters on the left deride a pol on the right. Especially since they essentially have no one qualified to be POTUS on the left. No one at all.
If the GOPe manages to ban Trump, they throw away whatever slim chance they had for victory. Not that Trump would be the party’s candidate and survive the primary process, but to exclude him will deny a voice to millions who don’t believe they are being represented by the caudillos running the Potemkin party.
"If Marco Rubio — whom everybody who matters on that side of the aisle believes is a serious candidate right now. Yeah, I know, but play along. — loses two points in an aggregate poll, he takes a seat at the kiddy table with the invisible man, George Pataki"
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