LOL, That's for sure. This article is laughably absurd and a grossly obvious reversal of Hillary's fears.
Posted on 08/10/2016 4:53:14 PM PDT by Zakeet
One of the 10 or 15,000 Donald Trump subdramas heading into the fall is the question of whether the Republican presidential nominee will participate in all three scheduled debates. It's usually taken for granted that major-party candidates will agree to the Commission on Presidential Debates' schedule, but there’s no law requiring it, and Trump has never seen a political norm he hasn't considered razing and building something gaudy over. And over the past couple of weeks, he’s laid the groundwork for not participating in the debates by suggesting that they are, in some nebulous way, a trap he can't agree to until he's carefully combed through the conditions.
Don’t be fooled. He's going to do them. Well, at least he'll do one of them, and see how much he likes it. What he first needs is some face-saving adjustment to the schedule, the debate rules, the debate hall, or whatever. It doesn't matter what it is, and it doesn't even have to be an alteration that's tactically advantageous. The whole point of his debate moaning is just to act as another dominance play to demonstrate his ability to wield leverage in negotiating a deal.
[Snip]
If he can’t negotiate one of his masterful deals, he has a ready-made excuse for a poor performance when he participates anyway: It was rigged all along, just like the whole election is.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Which is exactly why Slate and others are pimply this meme now
debates...yes, they will have breaks this time for Hitlery to use the bathroom.
LOL, That's for sure. This article is laughably absurd and a grossly obvious reversal of Hillary's fears.
Let’s see....the members of the Commission on Presidential Debates
Co-Chairmen
Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.........Republican - RINO
Michael D. McCurry..............DemocRAT - Former Clinton Press Sec.
Hornorary Co-Chair
Paul G. Kirk, Jr................DemocRAT
Board Members
Howard G. Buffett...............Son of Buffett
John C. Danforth................Republican -RINO
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.........Republican - RINO
Charlie Gibson..................DemocRAT
John Griffen....................Presumed DemocRAT
Jane Harmon.....................DemocRAT
Antonia Hernandez...............DemocRAT
Reverend John I. Jenkins........Notre Dame U - Presumed Rat
Jim Leher.......................DemocRAT
Newton N. Minow.................DemocRAT
Richard D. Parsons..............Republican - RINO
Dorothy S. Ridings..............DemocRAT
Olympia Snowe...................Republican - Proven RINO
Shirley M. Tilghman.............Presumed DemocRAT
What could possibly go wrong?
And it’s got to be particularly galling to Trump, who takes such pride in deal-making, that the Repubs make such a bad deal on the ground rules for the debates.
He’s trying to negotiate a better deal, but of course the liberals call it petulance.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he was negotiating such things as
“no oxygen tanks on stage”
“no bathroom breaks”
“no walkers”
Trump will clean Hillary’s clock.
Of course this IS Slate. So, consider the source.
Another pajama boy. Color me shocked.
Friggin parasite.
Trump said he is glad to do three debates but he wants a moderator that will be fair. At last we have a GOP nominee that doesn’t sheepishly take whatever DNC hacks they throw at him.
Heh. Good pic.
“Trump ISN’T the one complaining!!!”
The only complaint that I’ve heard is that the debates have been scheduled to miminize the audience size/
When is someone going to out the Debate Commission for being full of lefties?
And Trump was asking why they were on NFL Football nights, he is thinking about the people that want to see the football and debates, nothing wrong with that...that’s why I won’t watch something if it interrupts my football...
Somebody needs to tell Little Jimmy the Slate Boy that Trump is pissing and moaning about the debates because he knows that if Clintoon croaks up on the stage, the turds in the liberal “media” are going to blame it on him. Take another toke Jimmy.
“And Trump was asking why they were on NFL Football nights”
Yes. I continue to believe the Hillary people want to find a way to keep her from having to debate.
I hope Trump doesn’t say something they can twist around to justify cancelling the debates.
Wearing his Hillary Senate Hearing edition eyeglasses. A true Snowflake. Go figure.
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