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RNC cuts debate ties with conservative magazine over anti-Trump issue
Fox News ^ | January 22, 2016 | Fox News

Posted on 01/22/2016 1:50:49 AM PST by WhiskeyX

The Republican National Committee announced late Thursday that the venerable conservative magazine National Review had been dropped as a debate sponsor after it published an issue devoted to why voters should reject Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

RNC spokesman Sean Spicer confirmed to Buzzfeed News that the magazine had been dropped as a sponsor of the Feb. 25 debate in Houston, saying "a debate moderator can't have a predisposition."

"We expected this was coming," National Review publisher Jack Fowler wrote in a blog post early Friday, calling the RNC move a "small price to pay for speaking the truth about The Donald."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cnsrvtvtreehouse; conservatism; election2016; erickerickson; glennbeck; marklevin; megynkelly; nationalreview; newyork; pinkstain; pinkstate; politico; redstate; redstategathering; rnc; rogerailes; sundance; trump
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To: WhiskeyX

So, “a debate moderator can’t have a predisposition.” Really? Then why the hell has the RNC accepted a long succession of debate moderators who have the predisposition to what to destroy all Republican candidates with the exception of “moderates” sufficiently indistinguishable from Democrats that the electorate will prefer a Democrat simply for the sake of genuineness?

This seems to tell us that that RNC really regards Cruz as a greater threat to the Washington status-quo than Trump.


21 posted on 01/22/2016 2:44:12 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: WhiskeyX

I see this as a good thing....


22 posted on 01/22/2016 2:45:57 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Good post!.....I like your mom!


23 posted on 01/22/2016 2:49:11 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: WhiskeyX

I am probably the only person I know who has ever heard of National Review. It’s anti-Trump article will have less impact than an ant crawling up an elephant’s hind leg with rape on its mind.

The effect the article has on me is to significantly diminish the esteem I had for the various authors.

Glen Beck isn’t qualified to shovel horse-sh*t at a circus. He’s a freaking AM DJ for God’s sake.


24 posted on 01/22/2016 2:49:50 AM PST by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: GOPJ

Conservative elites?

Lol. New buzzword?

Why must folks abandoned principles just to maintain the idea that their guy is perfect? Is obvious who you’re pushing for just by that statement alone.

I’ll never understand why people on this side get so hell bent over their support of a PERSON, instead of letting the issues and facts dictate things. This goes for everyone who is guilty.


25 posted on 01/22/2016 3:02:47 AM PST by DrewsMum
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To: Guenevere

Lol... I barely do. She is one tough piece of shoe leather. My poor wife trembles every time she sees her. My wife is a tough one too, just my mother is the “Uber Bitch”. Kinda like an alpha male, but with everyone. She does like Trump. Said, he is a very nice man. I don’t get it. I think he is a tough SOB. Mom thinks he is “nice”.


26 posted on 01/22/2016 3:03:13 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools: Go Trump! Fireside brothers for Trump)
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To: WhiskeyX

More fodder for the Trump as the Only Democrat who can win with the help of the GOPe file. It is the only logical conclusion. Any true Constitutionalist rejected Trump a long time ago.


27 posted on 01/22/2016 3:04:34 AM PST by momincombatboots (Trump... The only Democrat who can win. Democrat plant! Well played democrats)
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To: Rum Tum Tugger

“less impact than an ant crawling up an elephant’s hind leg with rape on its mind.”

Please let me steal that. It is hilarious.


28 posted on 01/22/2016 3:05:54 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools: Go Trump! Fireside brothers for Trump)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Steal away.


29 posted on 01/22/2016 3:07:28 AM PST by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: WhiskeyX
"We expected this was coming," National Review publisher Jack Fowler wrote in a blog post early Friday, calling the RNC move a "small price to pay for speaking the truth about The Donald."

Is that a dumb response or what? Bad assertions, bad conclusions, with a predictable and expected bad result?

30 posted on 01/22/2016 3:08:51 AM PST by olezip
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To: Cboldt
Or maybe, just maybe, the RNC has some sane voices that realize a party that only represents elite deep pocket globalists will not survive.

A gal can dream. <^..^>

31 posted on 01/22/2016 3:09:39 AM PST by grania
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Ooops.....OK : )


32 posted on 01/22/2016 3:11:42 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: WhiskeyX

I think they have to save face. They can’t control what is about to take place with Trump and they can’t show the people that they’ve lost control.


33 posted on 01/22/2016 3:11:46 AM PST by uncitizen (the LSM is so negative on Trump cuz there's nothing positive to say about Hillary)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
I'm the same age as your mom. From what you state, it sounds like she and I followed the same progression as I did about Cruz, although she saw things a little faster than I did. I was in when he first announced his "grassroots" campaign. I wasn't completely off the Cruz Express until Trump was obviously maybe the only person who can turn the US around.

My point? Why don't you get your mom to become a FReeper? She'd meet a lot of like-minded folks here. (and a lot not so like-minded)

34 posted on 01/22/2016 3:19:19 AM PST by grania
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To: stocksthatgoup

I have a roll of Charmin that’s more venerable than NR.

At one time, Jonah seemed to have some good instints and insight, but he’s drifted off into the weeds and turned to mush.


35 posted on 01/22/2016 3:19:30 AM PST by glock rocks (TTTT !)
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To: uncitizen
I think they have to save face. They can't control what is about to take place with Trump and they can't show the people that they've lost Trump is now in control.

Fixed it for ya. Don't think you will mind my minor correction.
36 posted on 01/22/2016 3:20:35 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools: Go Trump! Fireside brothers for Trump)
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To: WhiskeyX

Good move on the part of the RNC.


37 posted on 01/22/2016 3:27:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Obama hates the three Cs: Christianity, Constitution, and capitalism.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Appreciate it actually!


38 posted on 01/22/2016 3:28:36 AM PST by uncitizen (the LSM is so negative on Trump cuz there's nothing positive to say about Hillary)
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To: DrewsMum

I was referring to the writers at National Review... they see themselves as ‘conservative elites’...

As far as Cruz supporters here at FreeRepublic? I was one before I switched to Trump. They make sense to me. The people I don’t ‘get’ are the ones who would elect someone like Lindsey Graham or Jeb Bush...


39 posted on 01/22/2016 3:32:08 AM PST by GOPJ (It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
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To: WhiskeyX

Basically the Trotskyite wing of the GOP is staging a counter-counter revolution against Trump and his patriotic Americans.


40 posted on 01/22/2016 3:42:31 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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