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(Washington Post) Presidential Debate Fatigue: How Many Is Too Many?
Wash Post ^ | 1-23-12 | Chris Cillizza and Rachel Weiner

Posted on 01/23/2012 1:09:30 PM PST by tcrlaf

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To: tcrlaf

How many debates are too many? Well when Romney is getting his arse kicked, that is apparently the deciding number.


21 posted on 01/23/2012 1:38:18 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: DaxtonBrown

I, like others, believe they are alluding to the Gingrich/Obama debates,

in which Gingrich exposes Obama for the Marxist that he is, then tears him apart with it.


22 posted on 01/23/2012 1:41:35 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: G Larry

Not EVEN! I wanna see Newt bloody him so badly they will need a forensics blood splatter expert to figure out where o ba ma’s brains actually exploded.


23 posted on 01/23/2012 1:43:10 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: tcrlaf

I don’t care if I ever see another debate. They are staged crap. It’s like watching a monster truck rally. Well, I like monster truck rally’s but still . . .


24 posted on 01/23/2012 1:43:10 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: G Larry

“I think in the 21st hour of Newt’s 7, 3 hour Lincoln/Douglas style debates, I’ll start feeling a bit guilty for enjoying the thrashing Obama receives......”

I have a feeling that Obama will never agree to these debates (or any debates, really). How would he even have a prayer of successfully defending his first term?


25 posted on 01/23/2012 1:43:20 PM PST by MNGal
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To: tcrlaf
Unexpected
26 posted on 01/23/2012 1:55:09 PM PST by tomkat (Newt/Sarah '12)
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To: tcrlaf

There’s never enough debate!!!!

Are you scared media, obama, liberals....?


27 posted on 01/23/2012 1:56:02 PM PST by Rick_Michael ( 'REAL' Conservatives who witch hunt their own, are no better than Obama.)
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To: Cobra64

Cobra, you are correct. I live in S. Florida and now received this afternoon my 4th Romney campaign mailer. Beautiful glossy paper fold-out 11x11 with Mitt’s picture and fluff inside and a picture of a little girl holding an upturned piggy bank on the outside. Without the debates this is what we would have to go on.

We as a national conservative base need to keep digging below the glossy exterior and then we see it is nothing but a false veneer. Romney has already spent a ton in FL and Saturday night vaporized it. Romney spends on attacks and fluff, Newt wins with content and passion!


28 posted on 01/23/2012 1:56:58 PM PST by untwist
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To: RIghtwardHo

Yeah, I know ... it’s “rallies”. Oops.


29 posted on 01/23/2012 1:56:58 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: MNGal

Here’s my prediction.
Obama chickens out of ANY debates.

Newt follows his ever public statement with a rebuttal within 4 hours.
After about a month of that BO will decide he needs a face to face debate or two.


30 posted on 01/23/2012 1:59:33 PM PST by G Larry (We need Bare Knuckles Newt to fight this battle.)
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To: tcrlaf

The debates are driving this primary season, instead of all of Mitt Romney’s money.

Suddenly, the Establishment Media decides there are “too many” debates.

Sorry MFM... We’ll pick our own candidate!


31 posted on 01/23/2012 2:03:38 PM PST by Haiku Guy (As soon as Romney / Is not "inevitable" / He drops like a stone)
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To: G Larry

I sure hope you’re right. When Obama doesn’t have a clue what the answer to a question is, he tries to fillibuster the situation. That would not work well in a timed debate situation. After a while, it would become fairly obvious to the viewers how incoherent his answers would be—that is, if the debate moderators actually asked questions whose answers were worth hearing.


32 posted on 01/23/2012 2:06:11 PM PST by MNGal
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To: tcrlaf

I only watch the highlights on YouTube. And the only highlight I’ve watched is Newt beating up John King! And I’ve seen that one about 60 times!!! And that’s all I need.


33 posted on 01/23/2012 2:11:11 PM PST by albie
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To: tcrlaf

I am still waiting for a question on federal spending. Duh


34 posted on 01/23/2012 2:18:59 PM PST by jpsb
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How many are too many? Any, if you’re a RAT supporting Obama, who will be toast!


35 posted on 01/23/2012 2:36:46 PM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: tcrlaf
the Primary season has become much too long. Admittedly I have become Primary fatigued. But then I am probably older than anyone else on FR and enjoy an afternoon nap!
36 posted on 01/23/2012 2:40:19 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: tcrlaf; All
It's a lot. I think even I took a break from one during the holidays. I don't know if the "18" counts "candidate forums" or the one-on-one with Newt & Cain.

The "forums" were more informative than the media circuses and attempts at in-fighting.

The press need to focus on the issues so we can pull substantive differences out on proposals. A FL tailored debate is obviously heavy on SS & Mediscare; it might hit on Cuba policy.

Unions might be a topic because ASCME is just started running an ad against Romney's Bain days, tying him to $100m in Medicare fraud. At the end they "morph" his likeness into that of Gov. Rick Scott.

Also in FL night now, Romney's Super PAC is running ads trashing Newt. Romney's campaign has an ad out spinning the Bain "job creation" record.

In my 3 hours of FL TV, I hadn't seen any ad for Newt.

37 posted on 01/23/2012 2:45:03 PM PST by newzjunkey (a FL win returns Romney to the "inevitability" path... do the right thing, Rick!)
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To: tcrlaf
Those who can't, complain; those who can, say, "Bring it on".


38 posted on 01/23/2012 2:47:38 PM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: tcrlaf

“...I expect we’ll see a TON of questions tonight about Gay Marriage, Abortion, Womens ‘Rights”, infidelity, yada, yada....”

And the correct answer, always, everytime, is “How do any of those issues put people back to work, after this administration and its party have wrecked the economy?”

Newt, Rick, Mitt, Ron:
DRAG THE DEBATE BACK TO THE ISSUE DESPITE THE MODERATORS. MAKE them own to up it.

That’s the only way it’s going to happen.


39 posted on 01/23/2012 2:52:03 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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