Posted on 12/05/2011 12:05:25 PM PST by Kaslin
I actually think the debate will be entertaining, and while I don’t think it will help anyone but Trump, I also don’t think it will do anything one way or another for the candidates.
Yep. I think they may be afraid of the questions.
I don’t know why they went to him for his blessings and expect anything from him if they won’t come to his debate, do you?
I’ve noticed a change in FOX News, haven’t you? They have been pushing Gingrich for months before he actually declared huis candididacy. I would not put Gingrich in the category of conservatism.
And we’ve had to suffer the likes of the establishment’s Karl Rove on a daily basis. Sean Hannity shows signs of being muzzled. It is as though the lights have been dimmed in that sudio. Truth doesn’t seem to matter anymore.
I fear the loss of our freedom of speech. The shadow of control is drifting over our part of the globe. Has ayone else notced?
Tokyo Rove hates it = I like it
I know the article was based on ABC.
One can expect a liberal point of view on ABC. But FOX NEWS was the one channel even remotrely conservativea, and they often feature George Will and Donald Trump, too.
There seems to be a plethiora of negative evenrs ocurring in this country. I can’t help but be refletive to try ro map out what our future will bring to my chilren, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Rove is just a contributer to FOX News, that does not mean they all agree with him. Everyone is free to make his or her decision. I for one will not let anyone tell me who to vote for. And btw the left has started their dirty campaign against Gingrich and it looks like you are falling for it. Which is a shame
Actually, I disagree with you. If Trump is ok, why not attend a debate sponsored by the "enquirer" or "Play boy" (I love the girls, don't take me wrong) but I am sure you get my point.
We want to convince the Country, the World... don't you think that the stage where these important conversations should the proper venue?.. With a little dignity, etc.
Now, as far as CNN MSNBC and all the lefties... well, someone should investigate and negotiate the debates as well, and if they don't think it meets the standards, they should not do it. There are plenty of people and organizations who would love to hold these debates done in the proper way as the Huckabee just did it. I LIKED the format... it was serious, substantive, interesting and even dignified... so why do we need the lefties?... At least for the Republican process.
I would like to see Rush Limbaugh or townhall.com or other fairly conservative organizations hold them, etc.
I do not fall for anything. I have known his record for 30 years. I have always done my own thinking. It would be nice to hear from you with no personal offending omments included.
I have not read or heard anything new in what they are saying about the Grinch I have never liked him or imagined him as president of any country.
I know what Rove is, dear boy, and what he does for FOX.
“TRUMP does not give the GOP credibility in my opinion. On the contrary, it trivializes the political process and lowers the importance of these debates.”
I’m not a fan of Trump, but your post reminded me of how Paul and Huntsman won’t attend a debate with Trump as moderator, but have attended every debate with the leftist media as moderators.
Realizing that’s not the point you were making, but I just had to vent about the disingenuousness of Paul and Huntsman, and your post gave me an opportunity to do that. Sorry. :)
:) nothing wrong with venting and talking!
the SNL spoof of the apprentice being the GOP race writes itself. the ObamacheeringnetworkNBC would love to have the gop candidates as the apprentices.
does the msm really think they seriously have more credibility?
the msm whored out their credibility for a shrimp cocktail long ago.
If you want Rush to moderate a debate, go try and get him to do it. Better have deep pockets though. Until that day happens I'll take Trump over Woof Blitzer and that other weenie who got his head handed to him by Newt.
Like the bartender said to the mechanic when he walked in with a pair of jumper cables around his neck..."You can drink here but don't start anything."
Straw arguments and false choices and phantom conflicts by you here — no one said anything about Trump operating outside of what his freedoms as a private citizen are - so you are offbase with that criticism.
No one ever said the lib weenie media types are appropriate choices either - so you make a straw argument there.
And then you said “if you don’t like it, don’t watch it.” Screw you. If you don’t like my comment, DONT READ IT.
But the same thing can be said for the series of republican cattle calls this year. Eight candidates getting ten minutes apiece more or less and supposed to give substantive answers to subtle and complex issues. Fat chance for anything remotely dignified in those food fights.
Smirk-faced moderators arguing with the debaters and jumping into the fray, grown men and women sniping at each other like schoolyard rivals--and some people still wonder why Sarah Palin got her hat and went back home. She was the smartest of the bunch.
Trump offers to add some sizzle and excitement to otherwise scripted and meaningless affairs. Is he a conservative? An opportunist? Who knows. He isn't running for anything, so who cares. More power to him.
And you know his secret inner motivations. I admit I missed the class in mindreading that you must have taken.
What's this deal of having to be down on someone, even if it's a private citizen. Trump may be only a fellow traveler who would like to see Obama knocked off--that's more than half the rinos can say. Better have him on our side than his.
All he is is a free American doing his thing. I still don't get what you object to about that.
Wow, you have a thing for Trump don’t you. It’s almost a hero worship kind of a thing and it has you in a school girl tizzy to the point that you can’t keep your thinking straight.
I never questioned Trumps “right” to do this - not at all. He has 100% right to do it - and I have 100% right to say that I think it’s foolish because I do indeed doubt Trumps motives. And this is not “secret inner motivations’ - this is applied observational psychology. Trump is about Trump, period.
Trump is also only slightly more conservative than the liberal media types who normally do the debates - and he has an even bigger ego. Yes, he goes after Obama hard now but he’s kissed O’s butt in the past and he’s a big fan of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi as well.
If you continue to swoon over Trump and be fooled by him, go ahead. That is your right and it is his right.
It is my right to call you both out.
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