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”.
And the RNC in general, especially states levels that are blacklisting legitimate candidates, specifically conservatives, can kiss my butt.
Yes, and that is exactly why we are always saddled with electable idiots and not qualified leaders. Thanks for elaborating, Bert, and thanks for carrying water for the electable idiots.
And who id the RNC OR FOX or any media for that matter, to determine that for us?
They also gave us GW, I remember the episode very well, like an Arnold McClintock redux.
Maybe he could lead a military coup!
He might have to in order to be heard.
This is making me sick.
What an outrage!!!!
They are letting the Liberals in NH decide who debates in SC.
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That is a very, very good point! See but if they went just by New Hampshire then under their rules they would have excluded Guilianni, so they had to have 2 standards, New Hampshire and national polling. They skipped using Wyoming as a standard where Hunter placed 3rd.
I am beyond sick. This whole trend does not bide well for the country. We may end up having to find ways around all sorts of thing until 2012. If the RNC and the media have their way.
What ever happened to the line, "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Everyone on FR, anyone that calls themselves a conservative or an American should be outraged.
Well said. This supposedly hardened concept relies upon polls, and polls were proven wrong in the very race that Hunter was first excluded from debates. It is a direct reliance upon the MSM who has a conflicting interest from the GOP. The Rockefeller arm of the GOP is in cahoots with the MSM. Stealing from CrippleCreek, Just look at where media money comes from. It comes from sponsors and many of those sponsors are the same companies that want illegal aliens.
Not dramatic enough, EV. People won’t ‘get’ it until their own ox is being gored.
If we don’t know by now that the media and party heads like Mel Martinez pick our candidates, we never will.
We no longer live in a representative republic, we live in a corporate oligarchy and YOU better accept your slave status and SHUT UP!
Me neither.
Did he have the stature on the national level to raise the necessary funds to mount a credible campaign?
Did he have adequate national support to draw heavy hitters who could encourage contributions?
Apparently not. I do not dislike Duncan Hunter but am responding to an unwarrnted dis of Fox News. The candidates were weighed and he was found lacking in strength to carry on.
I’m a Paul supporter and I think it sucks that Duncan Hunter is being excluded.
Hunter at least has real, live delegates.
Done.
There is no England or America. Sad.
The bottom line is that Hunter will be excluded, and the rules will be changed to make that happen, no matter how convoluted they become. The media and I believe, the GOP, do not control him, and they do not want him messing up the carefully scripted political theater we are going to see in the next few months.
I’ve posted the press release here, for the record:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950987/posts
Polls are only done to manipulate public opinion.
It’s like subliminal mind control on the majority of Americans, who are weak minded.
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