Agreed. All of these also-rans will eat up the debate time, and Ted Cruz, a brilliant debater, will end up with two questions.
There are two reasons to run for high office even if you know that your chances of being elected are zero. The first is that you have a political message or ideology that you think needs to be heard, one that otherwise doesn't get a fair hearing in the marketplace of ideas in election politics. The second is pure personal vanity.
As far as I can tell, Carson isn't saying anything ideologically that isn't better said by viable candidates. Since he doesn't have a message that makes him a specific alternative to other conservative candidates, that leaves pretty much leaves option 2.
Yeah, because we need more sound-bite time as well as “I agree with XYZ” instead of open debate with REAL/new ideas.
Yeah, HUGE /s tag just in case...
I’m constantly confounded how the supposed party of non-monopoly/more-options-are-better want to narrow the field that may bring out people to vote and/or start/lead the next ‘revolution’ because their air-time to the Sports Channel could be interrupted by a lengthy debate.