Six candidates to participate in historic 2008 S.C. GOP Presidential Candidates Debate (No Hunter)

SC GOP ^ | 1/9/08 | Staff

[gidget7]

I don’t know which sat. company you use, but outs offers FOX in a package with only 3 or 4 other channels, meaningless, never watch channels, and it’s $10 extra. We recently switched over to HD with them, and FOX went along with those other 3 or 4. I am sick of watching elites tell me who is or is not a candidate. They do not get to pick, anymore than the rest of the media does.

And the RNC in general, especially states levels that are blacklisting legitimate candidates, specifically conservatives, can kiss my butt.

[WildcatClan]

"qualified is not the issue. Electability is the issue."

Yes, and that is exactly why we are always saddled with electable idiots and not qualified leaders. Thanks for elaborating, Bert, and thanks for carrying water for the electable idiots.

[gidget7]

And who id the RNC OR FOX or any media for that matter, to determine that for us?

[itsahoot]

I’m not sure why the GOP leadership didn’t extend an invitation to him.

They also gave us GW, I remember the episode very well, like an Arnold McClintock redux.

[Califreak]

Maybe he could lead a military coup!

He might have to in order to be heard.

This is making me sick.

[CPT Clay]

What an outrage!!!!

[Greg F]

They are letting the Liberals in NH decide who debates in SC.
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That is a very, very good point! See but if they went just by New Hampshire then under their rules they would have excluded Guilianni, so they had to have 2 standards, New Hampshire and national polling. They skipped using Wyoming as a standard where Hunter placed 3rd.

[gidget7]

I am beyond sick. This whole trend does not bide well for the country. We may end up having to find ways around all sorts of thing until 2012. If the RNC and the media have their way.

[Little_GTO]

Agreed. It is totally appropriate.

What ever happened to the line, "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Everyone on FR, anyone that calls themselves a conservative or an American should be outraged.

[Kevmo]

Well said. This supposedly hardened concept relies upon polls, and polls were proven wrong in the very race that Hunter was first excluded from debates. It is a direct reliance upon the MSM who has a conflicting interest from the GOP. The Rockefeller arm of the GOP is in cahoots with the MSM. Stealing from CrippleCreek, Just look at where media money comes from. It comes from sponsors and many of those sponsors are the same companies that want illegal aliens.

[AuntB]

Not dramatic enough, EV. People won’t ‘get’ it until their own ox is being gored.

If we don’t know by now that the media and party heads like Mel Martinez pick our candidates, we never will.

We no longer live in a representative republic, we live in a corporate oligarchy and YOU better accept your slave status and SHUT UP!

[Picklezz]

Me neither.

[bert]

The question posed earlier.....could he win a senate or governor seat in California.

Did he have the stature on the national level to raise the necessary funds to mount a credible campaign?

Did he have adequate national support to draw heavy hitters who could encourage contributions?

Apparently not. I do not dislike Duncan Hunter but am responding to an unwarrnted dis of Fox News. The candidates were weighed and he was found lacking in strength to carry on.

[ksen]

I’m a Paul supporter and I think it sucks that Duncan Hunter is being excluded.

Hunter at least has real, live delegates.

[ishabibble]

Done.

[Califreak]

There is no England or America. Sad.

[gidget7]

Which is a good point, and makes me wonder, why on earth Thompson and his supporters are not outraged? They both claim to be conservative, but if that’s the case why are they sitting by saying nothing or worse yet, justifying this anti freedom nonsense?

[Smokin' Joe]

The bottom line is that Hunter will be excluded, and the rules will be changed to make that happen, no matter how convoluted they become. The media and I believe, the GOP, do not control him, and they do not want him messing up the carefully scripted political theater we are going to see in the next few months.

[EternalVigilance]

I’ve posted the press release here, for the record:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950987/posts

[Califreak]

Polls are only done to manipulate public opinion.

It’s like subliminal mind control on the majority of Americans, who are weak minded.