Posted on 01/09/2008 11:47:11 AM PST by pissant
Contact: Rob Godfrey, Communications Director 803.807.7144
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Excitement surrounding presidential politics in South Carolina continues to grow as South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson today announced that invitations have been extended to and accepted by six Republican presidential candidates to participate in the 2008 South Republican Party Presidential Candidates Debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
"The stakes couldn't be higher this election, and we couldn't be more excited to extend a warm South Carolina welcome to six White House hopefuls who are seeking the Republican nomination to be the next President of the United States," said Dawson. "These candidates join tens of thousands of Republicans from across the country and hundreds of journalists from around the world who are converging on Myrtle Beach for this debate because they know the 2008 election could be decided on our stage that night."
The following candidates will be receiving formal invitations from the South Carolina Republican Party to the 2008 South Carolina Republican Party Presidential Candidates Debate (in alphabetical order):
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani - New York City
Former Governor Mike Huckabee - Arkansas
U.S. Senator John McCain - Arizona
U.S. Congressman Ron Paul - Texas
Former Governor Mitt Romney - Massachusetts
Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson - Tennessee
Candidates who received invitations to participate in the debate have announced formal campaigns for president; filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and the South Carolina Republican Party to run for president; paid all candidate filing fees associated with their candidacy; met all U. S. constitutional requirements; and garnered at least 5% of the national electorate as determined by an average of the most recent national telephone polls of registered voters conducted by non-partisan public opinion polling organizations leading up to the registration deadline as determined by the South Carolina Republican Party and FOX News Channel; or, place in the top five in the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary on January 8, 2008.
The 2008 South Republican Party Presidential Candidates Debate will be televised live by FOX News Channel at 9:00 PM from the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Thursday, January 10, 2008. FOX News Channel Washington Managing Editor Brit Hume will moderate the debate while FOX News anchor Chris Wallace and White House Correspondent Wendell Goler will ask questions of the candidates.
FOX News Radio (FNR) will also provide listeners with live debate coverage beginning at 9 PM/ET. FNR’s Mike Majchrowitz will anchor the debate live from inside the hall. Following the debate, Majchrowitz and FNR Political Analyst and Washington Post columnist Jeff Birnbaum will provide post-debate analysis. They will be joined by FOX News Radio Correspondent Todd Starnes and several special guests live from “Spin Alley”.
This sucks. I hate FOX. You can’t get anywhere when excluded from the debates. He worked hard in NH and ended up with nothing. I love Duncan Hunter, and I’m still going to support him, but I really don’t think he’s going to have a shot.
bttt
Thursday night debate in SC Jan 10th!
No, five candidates and one major distraction named “Ron Paul”.
Everybody’s unavailable.
What a bunch of cowards!
SC is proud of their heritage.
Tell them they’re acting like doormats for elite New Yorkers and shafting a military veteran for a liberal pos.
I can see it and it breaks my heart!
My exact thoughts.
Come on, put on your thinking cap. It’s not that hard.
Hunter doesn’t belong, but neither does Ron Paul.
It is outrageous that Hunter is excluded. MSM is determined to push McCain/Huckabee/Rudy down our throats. It is too early in the game to exclude anyone.
You answered your own question!
Their top tier marionettes are McCain and Giuliani.
Informed Public Bump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1950953/posts?page=164#164
Now tell me which people on that list are nationally recognized candidates that have not dropped out?
Your task is to figure out a definition of “nationally recognized” that is not based on poll data or prior state election results.
They push us in a corner.
They black us out during natonal news coverage. (Few stories, or just ridiculing references, photoshopping debate photos to just show the Congressman's elbow, with the "annointed choices" only clearly shown.)
Then they leave us out of debates, even though our guy is a multi-termed GOP Congressman with delegates already.
And then the ICING ON THE CAKE. What I call the "you've gotta lotta nerve!" moment:
They come, handwringing to us in late October, PLEADING FOR US TO VOTE FOR THE GOP NOMINEE, otherwise they say the election will go to the big bad Democrats.
If this isn't playing us for fools and disrespecting us, I don't know what is.
Under that kind of environment, who WOULD among us Duncan Hunter supporters get behind a RINO in the general election if there were a Conservative, ballot qualified Alternative??
This is getting RIDICULOUS!!!
As I said to pissant, I understand that you're peeved Hunter is left out. But there's little in their criteria that would count as "dirty tricks" or any other conspiracy. If, after campaigning for months and having completed three state races, you can't poll better than 5% nationally, you haven't a prayer. All Hunter had to do to make this a moot point was finish in the top five in NH, OR -- not and, but OR -- poll at 5% in the polls nationally. He didn't.
Thanks Lion.
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