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Six candidates to participate in historic 2008 S.C. GOP Presidential Candidates Debate (No Hunter)
SC GOP ^ | 1/9/08 | Staff

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”.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2008election; duncanhunter; election2008; fredthompson; gopdebates; hunter; sc2008; southcarolina
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To: OB1kNOb
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.

81 posted on 01/09/2008 12:40:00 PM PST by gidget7 ( Vote for the Arsenal of Democracy, because America RUNS on Duncan!)
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To: bert
"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.

82 posted on 01/09/2008 12:40:30 PM PST by WildcatClan (Vote Hunter for President)
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To: bert

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


83 posted on 01/09/2008 12:42:28 PM PST by gidget7 ( Vote for the Arsenal of Democracy, because America RUNS on Duncan!)
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To: geopyg
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.

84 posted on 01/09/2008 12:42:42 PM PST by itsahoot (Gingrich: "We don't have a peace process. We have a surrender process." (Duncan Hunter gets it.))
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To: gidget7

Maybe he could lead a military coup!

He might have to in order to be heard.

This is making me sick.


85 posted on 01/09/2008 12:43:41 PM PST by Califreak (Duncan Hunter-no clothespin necessary!)
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To: pissant

What an outrage!!!!


86 posted on 01/09/2008 12:44:32 PM PST by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW , Vote Hunter in the Primary)
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To: Smokin' Joe

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.


87 posted on 01/09/2008 12:45:12 PM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Califreak

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.


88 posted on 01/09/2008 12:46:26 PM PST by gidget7 ( Vote for the Arsenal of Democracy, because America RUNS on Duncan!)
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To: EternalVigilance
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.

89 posted on 01/09/2008 12:47:56 PM PST by Little_GTO
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To: EternalVigilance; cripplecreek

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.


90 posted on 01/09/2008 12:48:52 PM PST by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter won't "let some arrogant corporate media executive decide whether this campaign's over)
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To: EternalVigilance

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!


91 posted on 01/09/2008 12:49:04 PM PST by AuntB (" DON'T LET THE PRESS PICK YOUR CANDIDATE!" Mrs. Duncan Hunter 1/5/08)
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To: pissant

Me neither.


92 posted on 01/09/2008 12:49:35 PM PST by Picklezz (HUNTER: SOLID - A Conservative's Conservative. He's the man for the job.)
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To: gidget7
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.

93 posted on 01/09/2008 12:49:38 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: pissant

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

Hunter at least has real, live delegates.


94 posted on 01/09/2008 12:49:55 PM PST by ksen ("For an omniscient and omnipotent God, there are no Plan B's" - Frumanchu)
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To: pissant

Done.


95 posted on 01/09/2008 12:50:33 PM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: gidget7

There is no England or America. Sad.


96 posted on 01/09/2008 12:51:12 PM PST by Califreak (Duncan Hunter-no clothespin necessary!)
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To: Little_GTO
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?
97 posted on 01/09/2008 12:51:25 PM PST by gidget7 ( Vote for the Arsenal of Democracy, because America RUNS on Duncan!)
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To: Greg F

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.


98 posted on 01/09/2008 12:51:57 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: AuntB

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

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


99 posted on 01/09/2008 12:52:54 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Cut the heart out of the GOP platform, and the party will be nothing but "a Weekend at Bernie's...)
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To: Kevmo

Polls are only done to manipulate public opinion.

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


100 posted on 01/09/2008 12:53:05 PM PST by Califreak (Duncan Hunter-no clothespin necessary!)
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