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Let’s Scrap the Presidential Debates
NewYork Times ^ | Aug 3, 2020 | Elizabeth Drew

Posted on 08/03/2020 9:36:11 AM PDT by RBStealth

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To: RBStealth

The GOP put together 46 minutes of Joe talking gibberish. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3871076/posts

Here’s a 43 second version done as a tweet, https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1290322949824798733


81 posted on 08/03/2020 10:21:33 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: RBStealth

LOL - last time this was brought up as an idea, they were the ones fighting against it.


82 posted on 08/03/2020 10:21:35 AM PDT by Ingtar
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To: dp0622

I’ve done plenty of thinking. The audience for debates is the already decided. Undecideds find them (rightly) boring and don’t watch. They’re dog and pony shows, they’re boring, they’re stupid, they’re a waste of time.


83 posted on 08/03/2020 10:22:17 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: cuban leaf

Only to people already decided. These things mean nothing.


84 posted on 08/03/2020 10:22:49 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: RBStealth

I want to watch Joe Biden stand there for 2 hours talking gibberish.


85 posted on 08/03/2020 10:23:45 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: RBStealth

NO, Biden better show his wretched ass up or quit. This whole campaign is a fraud.


86 posted on 08/03/2020 10:23:57 AM PDT by dforest
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To: RBStealth

Joe Biden can’t even put on his own shoes, let alone tie them.

He cannot hide forever.


87 posted on 08/03/2020 10:24:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: euram

If Basementman doesn’t show, Trump should immediately release a new ad asking the American people if someone is too cowardly to debate will he be strong enough to stand up to the Chinese Communists, the Russians, the Iranians, etc?


Start those ads now using the NYT article as evidence that the Democrats are afraid to let “Senile Joe” out in public where the American people can see him for what he is.


88 posted on 08/03/2020 10:25:42 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: RBStealth

Chuckle.
Who didn’t see that coming?
Joe Dementia must be getting really bad.
Seems like every single fake news media outlet is pushing for cancellation if the debates.


89 posted on 08/03/2020 10:26:36 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: discostu

Agree !

Bad political theater pretending to be the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. It tells us nothing useful about the candidates.


90 posted on 08/03/2020 10:27:07 AM PDT by Reily
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To: BenLurkin

“...Democrat party hails the 1960 debates as glorious and thrilling and inspiring.”


People who heard the 1960 debates on the radio thought Nixon won the debate handily. But on T.V. it was the handsome JFK beating the jowly 5 o’clock shadow Nixon.


91 posted on 08/03/2020 10:30:14 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: dp0622
This Slimes article cracks me up. So all of a sudden, "The debates have never made sense as a test for presidential leadership."

All those election cycles past when the Democrat candidate was invariably hailed by the Slimes as a statesman of the highest order due to masterful performance in said debate!

Why Barack Obama literally walked on water and parted oceans with his stately rhetoric, according to the Slimes. Al Gore was dignified and commanding. Why Bill Clinton was the smartest man on earth and super cool as well!

Suddenly, now that they are stuck with a total drooling imbecile for a candidate, these debates are now a poor test for presidential leadership!

92 posted on 08/03/2020 10:31:05 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yes, this is the new talking point. Along with we need to vote by mail because it is not safe to vote in person with covid.

A friend of mine is a Democrat. She is very outspoken. She posted on her Facebook page the Ten Reason why we should vote by mail this year. I replied to her list #11)Easier to Cheat. I got a couple Likes. I also got another person who questioned me about this. I explained to her that in person voting allows for someone to check my ID and cross my name off of the registration list. I also explained that ballots would get lost in the mail. She then replied that Trump would just figure out some way to cheat. She could not be reasoned with. She had Trump Derangement.

My friend, the original poster never commented on my #11).

So, this is all part of the narrative and talking points.

It goes along with keeping all the schools closed because we all need to stay safe. BS, it is about keeping a lid on the economy. At least until after the election.

I can not wait until RBG kicks the bucket. Now, that will be fun to observe.


93 posted on 08/03/2020 10:34:50 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: faucetman

"Them too!"

94 posted on 08/03/2020 10:36:05 AM PDT by Songcraft
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To: RBStealth

Gee, this meta-narrative was about as hard to predict as the sun coming up this morning.


95 posted on 08/03/2020 10:36:30 AM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: RBStealth

Once ppl see Sleepy Joe in crystal clear HDTV he loses votes... the optics alone will be so bad as he stands next to Trump... he’s so old, feeble and frail


96 posted on 08/03/2020 10:37:28 AM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: RBStealth

Let’s Scrap the Presidential Debates

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Fat Chance, Betsy!


97 posted on 08/03/2020 10:37:45 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: RBStealth

He can handle the debates if he is shot up with drugs or whatever they did to him in the last debate. In the last debate against Bernie he did well. I don’t buy the narrative that he cannot debate.


98 posted on 08/03/2020 10:37:48 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: RBStealth

so predicable


99 posted on 08/03/2020 10:38:35 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: RBStealth

LOL! I’m sure nobody will notice this is part of the Hidin’ Biden strategy..., just as nobody will realize the donkeys are scared chitless that Biden can hardly string two sentences together and would get eviscerated by Trump in a debate.


100 posted on 08/03/2020 10:38:45 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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