The GOP Primary field has let the media line them up on stage to take shots at them and each other.
LONG past time to walk. I hope Gov. Perry leads the way off this "gotcha" stage.
After the Pony-tailed" loser 1992 debate, the public should have laughed these debates off the air.
SIMPSON: So your question is?
PONYTAILED LOSER: Can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud? I think there’s a need, if we could take a poll here with the folks from Gallup perhaps, I think there’s a real need here to focus at this point on the needs.
(Bush 41 and Clinton BLEW it and agreed with his premise) -- He should have been told, "We're not your daddy!"
PONYTAILED LOSER: Could we cross our hearts? It sounds silly here but could we make a commitment? You know, we’re not under oath at this point but could you make a commitment to the citizens of the US to meet our needs, and we have many, and not yours again? I repeat that. It’s a real need, I think, that we all have.
No doubt the media is lining up a stable of questioners for the remaining 14 scheduled debates to make our conservative field look as stupid as the "pony tailed" guy did in 1992.
Debates are a MSM construct, where the Left benefits.
Charles Krausthammer had, what I think is a very good point in regards to Rick Perry. Perry’s problem is that he was a governor from Texas and that’s all he was.
He knows Texas through and through, but he never gave much thought in regards to national issues or international issues and his provincialism is hurting him.
What a coward.
These "debates" are not debates, but something more akin to the talent segment of the Cornhusker Queen beauty contest. They are moronic and pointless. They should go away, permanently.
And I mean from the general election as well as primary campaigns.
Having checked the latest schedule, there are now THREE debates in Nov.
There's now FOUR in Dec.
Three of those are in Iowa in span of eight or nine days.
January has FIVE scheduled debates.
This is pretty dumb. I’d say the last debates are far more important than the early ones.
Why doesn’t he just put Anita up on stage to debate? She is the one that wants to go to DC.
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Political suicide. Plain and simple political suicide.
(1) The other candidates will beat up on Perry during the debates, and he won’t be there to respond.
(2) As has been pointed out, the image that people will get form this of Perry is that he is AFRAID to debate.
(3) Perry claim that he could easily beat Obama will be seriously damaged. If he’s running away from a fight with GOP cadidates, nobody will think he can fight Obama (remember, one of the main frustration points with McCain was that he refused to go after Obama in the debates).
Good for Perry! There are way too many debates as it is and they are all leftie run debates.