Posted on 01/09/2008 11:47:11 AM PST by pissant
Contact: Rob Godfrey, Communications Director 803.807.7144
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Excitement surrounding presidential politics in South Carolina continues to grow as South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson today announced that invitations have been extended to and accepted by six Republican presidential candidates to participate in the 2008 South Republican Party Presidential Candidates Debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
"The stakes couldn't be higher this election, and we couldn't be more excited to extend a warm South Carolina welcome to six White House hopefuls who are seeking the Republican nomination to be the next President of the United States," said Dawson. "These candidates join tens of thousands of Republicans from across the country and hundreds of journalists from around the world who are converging on Myrtle Beach for this debate because they know the 2008 election could be decided on our stage that night."
The following candidates will be receiving formal invitations from the South Carolina Republican Party to the 2008 South Carolina Republican Party Presidential Candidates Debate (in alphabetical order):
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani - New York City
Former Governor Mike Huckabee - Arkansas
U.S. Senator John McCain - Arizona
U.S. Congressman Ron Paul - Texas
Former Governor Mitt Romney - Massachusetts
Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson - Tennessee
Candidates who received invitations to participate in the debate have announced formal campaigns for president; filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and the South Carolina Republican Party to run for president; paid all candidate filing fees associated with their candidacy; met all U. S. constitutional requirements; and garnered at least 5% of the national electorate as determined by an average of the most recent national telephone polls of registered voters conducted by non-partisan public opinion polling organizations leading up to the registration deadline as determined by the South Carolina Republican Party and FOX News Channel; or, place in the top five in the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary on January 8, 2008.
The 2008 South Republican Party Presidential Candidates Debate will be televised live by FOX News Channel at 9:00 PM from the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Thursday, January 10, 2008. FOX News Channel Washington Managing Editor Brit Hume will moderate the debate while FOX News anchor Chris Wallace and White House Correspondent Wendell Goler will ask questions of the candidates.
FOX News Radio (FNR) will also provide listeners with live debate coverage beginning at 9 PM/ET. FNR’s Mike Majchrowitz will anchor the debate live from inside the hall. Following the debate, Majchrowitz and FNR Political Analyst and Washington Post columnist Jeff Birnbaum will provide post-debate analysis. They will be joined by FOX News Radio Correspondent Todd Starnes and several special guests live from “Spin Alley”.
I’ll be there cheering on Fred!
Thanks to the Georgetown County GOP for the tickets!
Contact: Rob Godfrey, SC GOP Communications Director
803.807.7144
The SC GOP main number: Phone: 803.988.8440
Fox News: 1-888-369-4762.
No Hunter, I don’t watch
Why no Hunter? - he makes more sense than the rest of them!
Screw it all.
Because Brit Hume says so.
The Knuckleheads: 3,
Hunter: 0
We already are, quite literally and explicitly.
With the complete cooperation and connivance of the Republican Party.
Fox sux.
And RNC is doing what? Time to call them and Fox
Yep.
FOX Corp line 212-301-3000 not some recorded message and VM
Let’s see. Hunter paid $25K to be on the SC ballot. Has spent a fair amount of time there. Has a campaign HQ there. Was in a virtual tie in their largest straw poll. Has a delegate already on the books. Won the texas straw poll convincingly.
But nah, Fox and the GOP don’t want him in the debates.
I don’t even bother to watch Fox anymore. I used to really like them, but lately I’ve found them to be only slightly better than the rest of pack.
Ditto. It looks like I’ll be out fishing on election day.
“No Hunter, I don’t watch”
Hunter keeps everyone else honest.
I’d rather watch paint dry, than watch the debate. I don’t watch the Dem debates, either.
Fred needs to crank it up a notch in the SC debates. It seemed in NH he took a very laid back approach, possibly because he’d written off NH and all the faux conservatives there. He has to hammer home the fact he is the only consistent conservative among the front runners and he needs to remind the viewers of that fact incessantly. That message should sell in SC and if he doesn’t forcefully address that fact it’s all over.
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