Posted on 01/04/2008 9:38:26 AM PST by CounterCounterCulture
NEW YORK—ABC News is eliminating Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter and Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from its prime-time presidential debates Saturday night because they did not meet benchmarks for their support.
The Republican debate three days before the New Hampshire primary will include Iowa caucus winner Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. It starts at 7 p.m. EDT.
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Not surprised.
FYI
Hunter should be included. Media corporations should not be able to artificially narrow the field.
Did they cut Hillary! with her lousy showing as well?
Ron Paul in, Duncan Hunter out. The GOP has officially jumped the shark.
I do not know Duncan Hunter’s strategy. However, he may yet surprise us even before New Hampshire. Because he has campaigned in Wyoming, which has a race before New Hampshire, and no one else is campaigning there.
Wyoming to Hold Overlooked GOP Caucus Before New Hampshire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947693/posts
Then there’s New Hampshire. Hunter’s already there while everyone else wraps up in Iowa. It’s conceivable that he will have momentum.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
“(Ron Paul in; Duncan Hunter out)”
Someone was paying attention to Iowa apparantly.
MSM forbid they drop Frudy Rudy and McCain. RuPaul...he’s in there for the expected goofball factor.
Well, this is Fred’s opportunity to show why he deserves our vote by standing out from the rest.
I suppose by the numbers that’s fair. Too bad Duncan Hunter is too good to be elected, even by Republicans. Of course a lot of his problem is just name recognition. I had never heard of him before so it took me awhile to find out what he is about. Maybe Huckabee or Thompson (I prefer Huckabee to Thompson) will win and have the sense to choose Hunter for VP or some other important position.
And so it goes....
I am voting for Hunter so long as he stays in the race long enough to give me the chance. I don’t care what the media does to hide him from sight.
The MSM needs Ron Paul there to make McCain look good.
As much as I like him, with less than half of a percent he doesn't exist.
Ron Paul got more votes than Giuliani in Iowa, and there is no way the MSM is going to exclude Giuliani - so they can't exclude Paul either.
In their place FOX will be placing some really nice plants and some cute sock puppets that will meet their “benchmarks”.
Ron Paul’s supporters will tell you that he’s a Libertarian, not a Republican. Ron does not belong in the debate. Hunter does.
But Paul is more of an embarassment to the GOP than Hunter and Hunter poses a challenge to the status quo candidates.
Someone tell me again why Iowa is allowed to determine our Presidential election field? This crap has to end. It is supposed to be one person, one vote in this country. Here in WA state, I have very little to no say whatsoever in who our candidate is. That’s crap.
I’ll write Hunter in if I have to. Screw the GOP and their plantation.
Presidential candidates should not be participating in these mock "debates" whose agenda is completely controlled by the sponsor.
The media has just as much power as the candidates are willing to turn over to them.
Since when did we give multi-national media corporations the authority to PICK CANDIDATES for the PRESIDENCY?
I’m sorry - rhetorical question... a better question would be, *WHO* gave multi-national media corporations the authority to PICK CANDIDATES for the PRESIDENCY? And then - how do I challenge that?
The answer - get my information elsewhere!
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