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Rick Santorum is not happy about Fox News' GOP debate rules
CBS News ^ | May 22, 2015 | Jake Miller

Posted on 05/22/2015 3:56:32 PM PDT by conservative98

Rick Santorum is not happy about the rules for the first 2016 Republican primary debate, hosted by Fox News, which will limit the number of candidates onstage based on their standing in the polls.

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Santorum is expected to announce his plans for 2016 on May 27 during a speech in his hometown of Butler, Pennsylvania.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; cruz; election2016; littlericky; pennsylvania; ricksantorum; saintrick; santorum
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To: ansel12

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.


81 posted on 05/22/2015 6:07:40 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

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.


82 posted on 05/22/2015 6:24:12 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: conservative98
Rick Santorum is not happy ... perpetually


83 posted on 05/22/2015 6:24:49 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Jonty30

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.


84 posted on 05/22/2015 6:47:06 PM PDT by MHT (,)
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To: conservative98

Yo Rick! And I care, Why?


85 posted on 05/22/2015 6:49:58 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I don’t think it would work as well with undecideds, especially women.


86 posted on 05/22/2015 7:15:22 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

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.


87 posted on 05/22/2015 7:27:04 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Impy

Yeah, Ricky had me taken in for a while, I must admit.


88 posted on 05/22/2015 7:38:59 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: SgtBob

“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.


89 posted on 05/22/2015 8:38:05 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Bigg Red
Even though I voted for him for Senate when I lived in PA, he lost me with the cyberschool thing. The state of PA reimbursed the school district his kids' tuition money which he never repaid. Character matters ....
90 posted on 05/22/2015 8:38:55 PM PDT by Abby4116
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To: Norm Lenhart

I see it as more of a stratagem. And I think it would be interesting to see.


91 posted on 05/22/2015 9:53:58 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: RIghtwardHo; Bigg Red; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; NFHale

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.


92 posted on 05/22/2015 10:02:08 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Starstruck

Exactly. I guess campaigning beats getting a real job.


93 posted on 05/22/2015 10:02:39 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: conservative98

It should be the top five, not the top ten.

Santorum sounds whingy and petulant.

He lacks the ability to lead.


94 posted on 05/22/2015 10:07:01 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: Jonty30

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.


95 posted on 05/22/2015 10:17:12 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: conservative98

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.


96 posted on 05/22/2015 10:35:09 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: wardaddy

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.


97 posted on 05/22/2015 10:43:24 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

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.


98 posted on 05/22/2015 10:48:24 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: conservative98

The presidential primaries are getting to be like the Kentucky Derby, way too many entrants.


99 posted on 05/22/2015 10:51:19 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Impy

Absolutely. Think you’ve nailed it.


100 posted on 05/23/2015 8:03:41 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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