Posted on 01/27/2016 8:21:05 PM PST by Helicondelta
Tomorrow night, Republican front-runner Donald Trump might become the first presidential candidate ever to win a debate he didn't show up for. The other candidates will show up like they're supposed to, and they'll stand at their podiums answering questions. Some opinion writers will spin theories like, "Trump doesn't really want to win" or "This will be what finally does Trump in."
Some anti-Trump Republicans will believe this is the other candidates' chance to shine. They'll talk about their first-month-in-office goals. They'll talk about their policies and tax plans. Nobody will mention that Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are on the ends because they barely got in, but there may be some old-school prepackaged zingers. Someone will unleash one of those zingers and think it will make a great sound bite for the media to play over and over. He won't understand that "the zinger" is a dead art; a relic for future archaeologists. They'll dust it off and discover Trump's teeth marks on it.
Trump won't miss making news by skipping the debate. Trump is the news. I wrote last week in The Hill that the Republican Party and the media don't pull Trump's strings; he pulls theirs. This is what I meant. This is Trump pulling the media's strings. After the debate, the big story isn't going to be what former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio argued civilly about or whose flat tax proposal The Wall Street Journal likes best.
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Trump should put one of his commercials on a discounted rate.
Reagan skipped the last Iowa debate and it almost cost him the nomination.
I haven't read about this anywhere else. Has anybody posted a link to such a story?
Disgusting! FOX News Invited Muslim Activist, Sanders Supporter and Illegal Alien to Ambush Trump
Trump is the star of the show.
He tweeted that 87% of people would not watch the debate if he isn’t in it.
He’s already won since no one cares what politicians say - especially since they have zero chance of winning the nomination.
The debate is irrelevant even before its begun.
All the pressure is on Meg. She is the main reason Trump is not there and she has been obsessed for 5 months then sets up a trap that cost Fox $20-30 million.
Wonder what our bosses would do if that was us?
“The media might like Trump because he is a good story, but his act will get real old, real fast; and the media will turn against him.
While the media may not like Cruz as much, Cruz has not been rude to them and he (is) much easier to get along with.”
But the media doesn’t like Trump at all. They’re morbidly fascinated with him because he won’t play by thier rules. They give him free publicity non-stop hoping he’ll implode. He hasn’t yet.
Cruz is evidently despised in Washington but hasn’t figured out how to make hay out of it the way Trump has. He may still figure it out though.
Regardless, it’s the most interesting election romp in years!
It would be a kicker if Drudge has an after debate poll, and Trump still won! XD
It’s on the sidebar - “Google and FOX TV invite Muslim Anti-Trump person ...” It was basically an ambush of Trump.
and they added a Mexican woman and a feminist (all 3 of them were internet bloggers). The plan was for the women to attack Trump.
My opinion:
I don’t know how Trump found out about it, but when he did, he just casually mentioned that he might not attend the Debate .. and FOX was silent. That silence had to tell Donald that the plan he had found out about was true and he decided he didn’t want to put up with their game playing.
What I’ve said privately to my Cruz friends .. I wish more of the candidates would give up the Debate too .. and leave FOX spinning in the wind. Because now that Trump will not be there .. guess who’s next on the attack list ..??
I’m not a total Trump supporter, but this kind of treatment by a media group to a Presidential candidate is just beyond the pale. I don’t want them jerking candidates around; no matter who they are. Picking a President is serious business and I wish the media would stop messing with our elections.
I saw a post earlier that CNN had agreed to carry it. Didn’t read the details, just the title.
O come on trump! Scared of a girl? Lol.. Fox could get you a pacifier and a diaper just in case a girl asks ... O my...unfair questions and scares the piss out of you! Come on Mr Single Payor 2000! Reid is pulling for ya! Maybe all the obamacareocrats are.
I love this quote from the article.
“Trump says what he wants, even if it leaves everyone mad and bothered. Trump is real, and he clearly has no patience for B.S. Like the rest of them, he isn’t perfect. The difference is, everyone else is pretending to be.”
Let’s admit it, old style debates are going the way of lamestream news and newspapers.
The media still can’t come to grips and admit the days of their influence peddling are over.
Yep and that's gonna leave a mark.
He already did one for free, O'Reilly last nigh allowed him plenty of time to advertise his fundraiser. He's brilliant.
Oh the humanity, are you saying that nobody wants to see a debate with Jeb, Paul and Kasich, 3 candidates with zero chance of winning.
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