Yes, it takes time and preparation and planning to be in a debate...but these other candidates did so willingly, and no one forced them...they could have just as easily decided to not be part of the debate....Fred chose not too...so those other ten guys put themselves through an ordeal...again, that was their very own choice...but that does not mean that only one of those ten deserves to get the nomination....
Many people are not even paying attention to any of these candidates or debates anyway, being that it is so far in advance of the election...lots of people just want to wait, until the time gets closer...
You really are acting as if only one of the ten who participated in the debates deserves to get the nomination...that kind of attitude, smells to me, of sour grapes...
Who knows, it may be that waiting so long will be to Freds detriment....I dont know, and neither do you...what I do know, is that all the other candidates have chosen to be on the campaign trail very early, and it was a free choice that they made...Fred seems to be his own man, making his own decisions, in his own good time, not my time, or your time...
So I just suggest we wait and see what happens....rewarding a candidate because he hit the campaign trail early, is just not right in my opinion...I care what the man says, not how early or how late he got onto the campaign trail...if Fred is going to run, he will announce in plenty of time, for folks to make up their minds up him, and his positions...
I would not be at all surprised if the eventual GOP candidate is NOT ANY of the ten (eleven including Thompson) ... and if someone completely out of the blue at this time were to be the GOP nominee. This “campaign” started way, way too early ... and it caused a lot of problems as a result, including the FR “purge” problem, which I believe is likely not to have happened in a more compressed campaign.