Posted on 02/05/2016 7:32:21 AM PST by Kaslin
ABC News announced the lineup for Saturday's GOP presidential debate in Manchester late Thursday evening. Seven candidates will take the stage just three days before the New Hampshire primary. For Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will not be one of them despite beating rivals John Kasich and Chris Christie in the Iowa caucus. She's also beating Dr. Ben Carson in New Hampshire polling.
.@ABC reveals Republican candidates participating in Saturday's #GOPDebate https://t.co/phaAPdGLAh pic.twitter.com/VHuGgmlBd4— ABCNews PR (@ABCNewsPR) February 5, 2016
Fiorina is responding with accusations the "game is rigged."
"I've been telling you the game is rigged. And here's even more proof: The people of Iowa voted in an election this week, and I beat the establishment's guys. Tens of thousands of you stood with us yesterday to demand a fair debate. But Disney's ABC and the RNC have decided to keep me off the debate stage this weekend, caving to pressure from the same establishment candidates we beat who are afraid to debate me," Fiorina sent out in a campaign email Friday morning. "This isn't about me. It’s about you. It's about the people of New Hampshire who are about to vote. This is emblematic of the power that is being taken away from you every day?—?by the political class, the media establishment, and the bureaucracy. They don't want your votes to count. They don't want your voice to be heard. The network of George Stephanopoulos wants to tell you to sit down and shut up and elect Hillary Clinton."
"Well, guess what? ABC and the RNC and other candidates may keep me off that stage. But I will not be silenced. Our government is broken, and we know the establishment isn’t going to fix it. It's time to stand together and say we won't back down," she continued.
Yesterday New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former GOP Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney publicly advocated on Fiorina's behalf.
Hey @ABC: put @CarlyFiorina on the debate stage! She got more Iowa votes than John and Chris. Don't exclude only woman.— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) February 4, 2016
Yeah, right. Cruz has the best shot out of all of them to win the primary. Trump’s negatives are INSANELY high. 3 times as many people say they will NEVER vote for him as they do Cruz. Rubio is a lightweight with a squeaky, high-pitched voice. Only Cruz has the intelligence, manner, articulated policy views and the right tone to seem presidential.
America is going to elect whoever they elect.
It’s up to us to decide if we want to be free.
If we failed to teach our young people the value and cost of freedom, and they choose otherwise, then that’s what happened in America.
Hopefully others in the future will learn from our mistake.
“There needs to be a woman on the stage.”
Why?
In the past Republican debates, Ms, Carly Fiorina has focused on the scandals, the embarrassingly lack of any meaningful accomplishments of the Democrat establishment candidate Hillary Clinton.The Democrats want to negate these statements of facts by a woman, against a woman. Ms. Fiorina trumps the Democrats/ABC/MSNBC/CBS/WASH POST playing the sexist/gender card.
The remaining Republican candidates should STOP tearing into each other, unite in this media play against a woman. Set forth and frame the argument how the media is waging a "war against women".
As we are now in the Primary Season, this is just a means to protect 'their' candidate Clinton.
As some many have noted these are not really debates, and at this conjuncture only Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Carson should be in this 'debate'. Otherwise allow Fiorina onstage as Kasich, Christie, Bush are now allowed.
Is there any more inarticulate, lacking outward manifestation of personality candidate than Kasich? The way Kasich grabs and holds the podium, I likened to elderly grocery shoppers bent over and resting their elbows on the shopping carts.
Would a pole dancer count?
Ducking for cover
Hillary, is that YOU?
Part of ABC’s War on Women.
Exactly
“Seriously, why are they not allowing her to be there? Going by primary numbers she deserves it. And she’s way more intelligent than Kasich.”
Because ABC will portray her exclusion as another Republican “attack on Women”. After all they have to look forward to the general election, Bernie or Hillary is sure to need their help this year.
LOL. For some reason I just had a mental image of Hillary pole-dancing. Yikes!! I need help quick.
Heading out to snort the acid from my dozer battery up through my nose in hopes of flushing this from my memory.
No no, that’s not jorge stepenfechit. It’s George (Jorge) Steponallofus (You forgot the “t” in fetch btw)
Either way, the little Greek homo, loves to lewinsky bill while being greeked by huma with hildabutchbitch using the camera and selling photos to foreign gummints for futures.
Another example of ABC & George Steph..... doing everything they can to cripple the RNC.
IF Carly is the only other candidate still in the race, how hard is it to add 1 more podium to the stage?????
Sometimes, the bias of the media is just too blatant to hide.
ABC knows that Carly would easily beat Hillary if Hillary can’t run as the only woman so they want to make it harder for Carly to get the Republican nomination. ABC wants Stepford women who will believe what Democrats say women are suppose to believe.
ABC News war on women continues.
Carly is a one percenter.
Both economically and in her voter support in the R primaries.
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