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Pro forma party orimaries
| June 1st, 2015 at 5:46:46 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18215 |
These things have to have a cutoff somewhere. If The Donald was sharp he would have an anti-debate with Carly and others. Even he and just Carly as a "business people debate." Rent a venue and put it on some kind of TV. Some place will cover it. With even 10 it gets next to impossible to keep things orderly and moving. The President is a fink. |
| June 1st, 2015 at 6:36:23 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Early indications for the top 10 are below, but new formal entrants may change the ranking. But given television in our culture and obsession with ethnicity race and gender means you almost have to pick the Black Republican, the Woman, the Donald and Huckabee who wisely spent the last four years on TV.
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| June 2nd, 2015 at 2:19:46 AM permalink | |
| TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 | Why the Donald? He's a bloviating waste of a bad haircut. I don't recall reading one thing he's said that would be an asset to the republican party and get them elected. I read Carly Fiorina's pages, and wasn't really sure what she was trying to do, or even which nomination she was going for. The participants should quickly work out whose the real fighting chance to get elected, and debate the line they want to take, with out injuring each other. If they do all the attack work for the Democrats, it'll make it easier for Clinton as she looks (right now) to be relatively unopposed. And so will be less bloodied byt the primaries. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
| June 2nd, 2015 at 4:08:49 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Well the polls are always going to include in the top 10 the people who are different and have a history of being on TV. The black man, the woman, Mike Huckabee and The Donald. After two presidents and three terms a Bush is going to come out in the top 10. At the very least FoX news should make a preliminary cut of the top 5 four weeks before the debate. Then they should at least give a high profile introduction of 2 minutes apiece for a half hour show on the remaining 13 or so candidates. Then a national poll two weeks later. It would give the other candidates at least a fighting chance. |
| June 2nd, 2015 at 5:18:24 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18215 |
If I were them I would have say three at a time on a one-half hour show once a week, rotating. A hybrid between a "Sunday Show" and a regular debate. Let the feedback determine the "winners" and who keeps moving forward. Those who do not get over with the public are not invited back as much then eventually not at all. While doing it, be sure to show how the lamestreams are just shilling for Hillary perhaps. The President is a fink. |
| June 2nd, 2015 at 6:44:32 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
I'm not sure whether it's Huckabee or Trump who is the comic relief in this bunch. About timing in politics: In 1991 right after the Gulf War, it seemed Bush the Elder could be reelected by acclamation, while the Democratic party would have been well advised to run no one at all and put all its money in resurrection research. How did that turn out? So for those who think the Republican primaries are the means to pick the candidate to lose against Hillary, remember 1991. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| June 2nd, 2015 at 10:55:34 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I think it is a shame to exclude governors who have only declared their candidacy for a few weeks based on a national poll. The ones who are not on national TV don't stand a chance against eve the non-politicians who are going to rank high simply for being different. They really ought to start with two debates, and simply divide them on previous experiences (governors debate and non-governors debate). At least everyone gets there couple of minutes on the national stage.
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| June 2nd, 2015 at 11:24:39 AM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11810 |
Now the rush is on for senators and govenors to get on TV. In order to do that, they have to pretty much ignore their jobs. The whole political system has evolved to getting the worst senators (missed votes) and worst Govenors (ignore the state to campaign in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina) to run for President Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| June 2nd, 2015 at 11:36:42 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | BTW, the high approval ratings, and the perception of a certain landslide reelection which Bush the Elder enjoyed, were instrumental in gutting the democratic field of the better-known candidates. See who ran in 88 vs 92. IMO, people like Mario Cuomo stayed away from what they perceived as certain defeat, and opened up the gates for a rather obscure southern governor. Prior to 92, Clinton was best known, outside his state, for delivering a long speech at a Democratic party national convention. How he survived revelations of personal affairs worse than those which sunk Gary Heart, that's pure Slick Willy Magic. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| June 2nd, 2015 at 2:13:56 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Lest we forget, Last time they really had only 10 candidates that appeared in debates, but never more than 9 at one time. There were 5 governors (1 present governor)
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