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GOP contenders demand greater control over crucial debates
washingtonpost ^ | David Weigel and Robert Costa

Posted on 11/01/2015 6:15:09 PM PST by 867V309



RNC officials said they would not participate in Sunday’s meeting, but they have been reassuring campaign operatives that they are willing to recalibrate the events.


(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: debates; elections; gopdebatesrevolt; mediabias; priebus; rncgopdebates; washcompost
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The usual Compost backwash. Totally missed the point that the (relevant) candidates have had it with RNC.
1 posted on 11/01/2015 6:15:09 PM PST by 867V309
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Doesn’t anybody LISTEN anymore?

The whole reason the candidates don’t want these moderators is because the American voters are not having an opportunity to hear the candidates stance on issues...

The moderators think these ‘cute smart assed’ remarks they make are important, well they aren’t and we are fed up with it...

If Pubis can’t get better moderators than these, the candidates need to go out and get their own!!!


2 posted on 11/01/2015 6:19:30 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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“RNC officials said they would not participate in Sunday’s meeting”

Yeah right! From what I’ve read, they were specifically excluded! And the campaigns didn’t tell Yeb where the meeting was going to be held. Rancid Prius needs to resign immediately.


3 posted on 11/01/2015 6:22:59 PM PST by vette6387
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To: 867V309

“RNC officials said they would not participate in Sunday’s meeting”

Yeah right! From what I’ve read, they were specifically excluded! And the campaigns didn’t tell Yeb where the meeting was going to be held. Rancid Prius needs to resign immediately.


4 posted on 11/01/2015 6:23:06 PM PST by vette6387
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The Democrats have Democratic/liberal moderators for their debates.

The Repubs ought to have conservative moderators for their debates.


5 posted on 11/01/2015 6:23:22 PM PST by Arlis ( A "Sacred Cow" Tipping Christian)
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"RNC officials said they would not participate in Sunday's meeting"

You'll be sorely missed. Uh, exactly who you anyway? What is it that you do for a living?

6 posted on 11/01/2015 6:26:35 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: HarleyLady27

EXACTLY SO!

Voters are entitled to hear the positions and views of ALL OUR candidates on ALL pertinent subjects!!


7 posted on 11/01/2015 6:27:08 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION NOW - GO MONTHLY IF YOU POSSIBLY & RELIABLY CAN!)
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To: HarleyLady27
If Pubis can’t get better moderators than these, the candidates need to go out and get their own!!!

I think you can consider that done and you can thank Trump for it, he opened the anti-PC door. And a big shout-out to Ted Cruz, he stormed through the door with an army.


8 posted on 11/01/2015 6:27:26 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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No Meegen Onyourknees at future Fox debates.


9 posted on 11/01/2015 6:31:13 PM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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"From what I've read, they were specifically excluded!"

LOL! Said Rancid: I've been thrown out of better bars than this.

10 posted on 11/01/2015 6:31:25 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

We have internet streaming

Hannity and Levin want to moderate the debate

Who needs the liberal Clinton media and their biased dopey
questions?


11 posted on 11/01/2015 6:44:09 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (A)
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The RNC again had allowed Murdoch to load up the Fox Business moderator with one far left female hack who used to work at NBC ,CNBC and Bloomberg a plus a Lib Brit from the WSJ the atrium hating rag the looney left wing sons have destroyed .
12 posted on 11/01/2015 6:45:49 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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The solution is for the Demo debates to be moderated by conservatives and vice versatile.


13 posted on 11/01/2015 6:54:22 PM PST by cymbeline
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So what is to stop the front seven from having a couple of sit down interviews with Rush, Levin, or Hannity together in one room while they ask the candidates questions about their stances on real questions concerning the electorate?
If it is not called a debate and is just an informal sit down conversation around the coffee table in someone’s living room what will Rancid Pubus say? What can he do, dock them primary access?


14 posted on 11/01/2015 6:57:40 PM PST by WilliamRobert (Cruz 2016)
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Exactly let’s have an internet gathering of the minds maybe three or four at a time. Screw the networks what are they going to do fire everyone?


15 posted on 11/01/2015 6:59:30 PM PST by WilliamRobert (Cruz 2016)
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What can he do, dock them primary access?

Frankly, Rinces only power resides in his credibility. That is shot, and he knows it.

He's leading from his behind like Barky. That's how he presents, if you know what I mean.


16 posted on 11/01/2015 7:03:23 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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"Who needs the liberal Clinton media and their biased dopey questions?"

The RNC is being put through world class embarrassment and humiliation because they have unforgivably tolerated what has happened in the debates, present and past, and stubbornly clung to the "old ways." Finally some people with courage decided that enough was enough. The candidates aren't telling the RNC to "lead, follow, or get out of the way." What they are saying is "get out of the way, you are dreadfully incompetent to lead, and don't bother following us."

17 posted on 11/01/2015 7:05:26 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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I don’t think that the candidates will agree to very much. What a candidate wants from debates depends upon his/her relative position in the polls. They’ll come up with something, but I doubt that it will mean much.


18 posted on 11/01/2015 7:07:24 PM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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I don’t think that the candidates will agree to very much. What a candidate wants from debates depends upon his/her relative position in the polls. They’ll come up with something, but I doubt that it will mean much.

Only three of the candidates matter, the rest are chum. Trump, Carson and Cruz are in no mood.


19 posted on 11/01/2015 7:12:06 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: Enterprise

“From what I’ve read, they were specifically excluded!”

Doncha jus love the smell of gunpowder in the air !


20 posted on 11/01/2015 7:13:27 PM PST by DavidLSpud ("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
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