Posted on 02/16/2012 12:45:46 PM PST by KansasGirl
The front of the GOP pack will be absent at the March 1 debate in Atlanta sponsored by CNN and the Georgia Republican Party, CBS News/National Journal has learned. The Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum campaigns said they have decided to skip the debate, throwing into question whether it will happen as planned. "With eight other states voting on March 6, we will be campaigning in other parts of the country and unable to schedule the CNN Georgia debate," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. "We have participated in 20 debates, including eight from CNN." The 20 debates include one scheduled for Feb. 22 in Mesa, Ariz.
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March 5, 2012 debate - Cancelled.
Super Tuesday in March 6 and we have debate cancellations on March 1 and March 5.
And we have Rick-fans here rationalizing Rick (and Mitt) dropping from those debates.
Unbelievable.
I could like Santorum on a number of issues, and I give him a BIG thumbs up for the way he talks about freedom, but talk is easy, and specific proposals are hard. Just as bad, so far I’m not seeing anyone effectively responding to the bulk of the questions about him and many of his Senate votes. (See editor-surveyor’s long list on multiple threads, which is part of what got me really doubting; I am not going to repeat it here.)
Newt spoke to supporters for almost an hour! He took questions from supporters all across the country. He mentioned Santo and McRomeny dissing OH and GA by not attending the debates and said he'd be putting together some sort of forum for those who had hoped to hear Newt debate both of them.
Went in to a lot of detail about all of his plans for BBA, domestic energy, reducing spending and government waste/fraud, etc.
It’d be interesting to see how many people in states that have not already had primaries have seen more than the equivalent of one or two debates. I don’t think it’s a high percentage at all, judging by people I talk to, who I certainly think would average as “more than typically interested in who becomes the Pub nominee”.
Hey me too! Excellent questions and answers, His point about the duo pulling out of the debates was terrific in that the conservatives in the super Tuesday states should be very offended that they are being denied an opportunity to participate.
Sorry if it’s been said:
Santorum = Coward
I hope Sarah Palin Browbeats the ever lovin’ stuffing out of Santorum and Myth on their disgusting cheap trick. I had said I would reluctantly vote for Santorum if Newt didn't get the nomination ...scratch that; not gonna happen now!
GO NEWT!!!
Newt won’t let this pass. During the upcoming Feb. 22 CNN debate live on TV, Newt will expose to the world how the others chickened out on a most important pre Super Tuesday debate and why they did so.
Newt won’t let this pass. During the upcoming Feb. 22 CNN debate live on TV, Newt will expose to the world how the others chickened out on a most important pre Super Tuesday debate and why they did so.
I’ve skipped far more than they have.
This debate merry go round has been way overkill IMO.
Thank goodness I missed that, I see no reason, at all, to watch BOR.
I keep thinking Newt needs to SOMEHOW get his longer talks out to a lot more people. Maybe run a tele-internet town-hall where the best three follow up questions of topics covered in the first hour have a chance to win $5000, or something like that. (Is that legal?) If yes, advertise it widely, in advance.
Or get some local media in OH to sponsor a debate, or in lieu of that, another townhall forum to answer citizens' questions. (Can Santorum and Romney both afford to diss Ohio?)
Mail out CD's or DVD's containing policy issue discussions to prospective voters, encouraging them to copy and / or pass them on? (CD's are REALLY cheap in bulk, these days.)
Something... I just don't think even 10% of Republican voters have heard much more than soundbites from Gingrich, when it comes to real policy matters, because most of the media is in the Establishment tank. Saying "go to Newt.org" is just not enough.
One caller mentioned they'd watched Newt's Facebook speech and loved it. He's also going to do more of those.
I'd personally like to see more follow up via emails (for those of us who are FB/twitter challenged) from Newt, his campaign and those who've endorsed him. I did receive the Gov. Perry email, but would like to see a lot more info-filled emails I could then forward on. That was going to be my idea/suggestion ;)
BTW, is there a link to a replay somewhere? YouTube?
Hmmm... let’s see now...
There’s fear of heights... fear of flying... fear of spiders... etc... etc.
These conditions all have a scientific name.
I wonder what the “Fear of Newt” is called?
>> did you bother reading the article? <<
Hey, don’t spoil our fun and games! We’d don’t need to read no stinkin’ article. We’d much rather bash Santorum without knowing the facts!
If he does this, Newt should present some solid numbers on how much of the electorate has seen over, say, 2 hours of the debates so far. I’m sure it’s not a high %. Plus, multiple new or resurfaced issues have cropped up in the last couple weeks.
That makes a lot of sense ...hope they do that!
Not to the tele-townhall, that I know of. But, who knows...with the great response it seems like they’d like to promote it. He mentioned that his speeches from CA and his FB video would be posted on Newt.org.
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