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 don’t know what it is like in SC, but some states have dozens on the ballot...all sorts of wackos, who collectively might get 100 votes.
Every additional person limits the time of serious candidates. The standards here were not outrageous.
I agree. And I note that you didn’t use the sarcasm tag, which was unnecessary.
B4DH.
“I used to really like them, but lately I’ve found them to be only slightly better than the rest of pack.”
Reminds me of a certain political party.
“I used to really like them, but lately I’ve found them to be only slightly better than the rest of pack.”
Reminds me of a certain political party.
The man who has people believing he was the genius, not Gen. Petreaus, behind the surge. If that wasn’t bad enough, he is now using this disinformation to further fool people into believing that since he’s so obviously this great military strategist, that once President he would get OBL. In his own words “I will get OBL”. What a joke he is except that it isn’t funny.
I cannot stand to watch the debates anymore because I cannot stand to watch that big grin he gets on his face whenever he knows someone just called him out. It’s so obvious that he’s thinking .....yea, I know I’m an untrustworthy, charlatan sell-out, and lots of people know I am, but just look how many people I have fooled and isn’t it funny.
Yes, but how many of those people are the Ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee and a candidate with delgates already committed to him?
A couple of points of information:
To appear on the South Carolina primary ballot, a payment of $35,000, more than all the ballot access fees of all the other states combined, was required to be made to the state GOP.
A) Duncan Hunter made that payment.
B) Alan Keyes, because his campaign has from the beginning been a grassroots one, and not a money-driven one, did not pay what amounts to a huge poll tax.
Two separate issues, but things that all conservatives should know concerning what is happening to their electoral process.
Up to this point I’ve paid extra monthly to upgrade my satellite channels just so we could watch Fox News and escape some of the liberal media bias. Now, I’m seriously considering dropping to a more basic package that excludes Fox. Why should I continue to support them when they are getting as brazen as the others in their bias. Fox News can bite me, the SOB’s.
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.
OUTRAGE doesn't begin to define the emotion.
None are qualified except Sinators and Goobernors? Even when the candidates who were in senate, such as Nachos McCain (and his good buddy “Aspirations of Citizenship for illegals” FRed Thompson) or a governor like FLIP Romney (and Nanny Huckleberry) have already proven that they cannot be trusted with presidency)?
Well, better scratch Rooty and rest of the field and leave it up to the RINOs to appoint whomever Ratsmussen and Zogby tell them to, but only if the choices are between FLIP Romney, Huckster, FRed & McLoon. GET REEEEL!
We’re damn lucky they’re letting Fred on.
“Anyone who has qualified to be on the ballot should be included in the debate. Period.”
So the New Hampshire debate should have included:
HUGH CORT
JOHN COX
H. NEAL FENDIG, JR.
DANIEL GILBERT
RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI
ALBERT HOWARD
“MIKE” HUCKABEE
DUNCAN HUNTER
ALAN KEYES
MARK KLEIN
STEPHEN W. MARCHUK
JOHN McCAIN
JAMES CREIGHTON MITCHELL,
CORNELIUS EDWARD O’CONNOR
MITT ROMNEY
JACK SHEPARD
THOMAS G. TANCREDO
FRED THOMPSON
“RON” PAUL
VERMIN SUPREME
“VERN” WUENSCHE
qualified is not the issue. Electability is the issue.
To some, what I’m going to post below may seem overly dramatic, but in my opinion is apt. I’m rather tired of my fellow conservatives who, even though they do not support my chosen candidate, as is their right, continue to ignore the abysmal treatment accorded him by the powers-that-be in this election.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
Yes. Electability. Nobody but the globalists.
"Electability" is a subjective term, as well as being a self-fulfilling one, when those deemed "unelectable" by the powers-that-be are excluded from the public debate.
I am from NH, and I say why not?
They came for the conservatives. I said nothing because I was not a conservative.
They’ll come for Fox & the rest of them soon enough.
I hope they enjoy their dhimmitude.
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