Finally a Debate Worth Watching!
Are you tired of watching Republican debates with eight to ten candidates fighting for time?
Are you sick of seeing your favorite candidate passed up for questions on key issues because there are simply too many people on stage?
Well, you’re in luck because today Fox News announced their next debate on January 6th in New Hampshire will feature only five candidates. Finally we’ll be able to see Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, Romney, and Thompson go at it without those annoying second tier candidates.
I’m also looking forward to seeing how the Ron Paul crowd reacts to their man being left out.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Hmm, Paul is ahead of Thompson in New Hampshire and yet…
December 27th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
how are we going to feel when ron paul launches a third party bid for the presidency?
scary thought ain’t it ?
December 27th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Can you please provide a link to the source where this Fox news decision to cut Ron Paul out of theNH debate was released to the press?
December 27th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Get real!!! Go RP
December 27th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
John,
Here you go.
http://bigheaddc.com/2007/12/27/fox-news-to-host-special-gop-candidate-forum/
December 27th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Fox News will hurt for years to come.
Especially when it will propels Ron Paul, and he wins the presidency.
Go for it Fox,… stoke the flames of liberty.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
If Fox bans Paul, his followers will dominate outside the debate. His absence will make news on other networks and maybe even during the Fox debate. When Paul was banned from an Iowa debate, Paul supporters produced a bigger crowd than the debate did!
A ban from the debate could produce much more positive and sympathetic press for Ron Paul than debate clips ever would.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Ya, umm, let’s exclude the candidate with the greatest number of individual donations (from average American Citizens like me) for the fourth quarter = around 130,000 individual donations which will total around around $20,000,000. In terms of individual donations no other candidate will have half as many individual contributors. In terms of total amount raised for the last quarter Ron Paul will probably be the number 1 leader in the bid for the Republican nomination. So ya, by all means let’s just not invite the leading candidate for the Republican nomination when using the measuring stick of fund raising prowess. Makes sense to me! It’s not like money has anything to do with politics in the first place. Go Fox News, yippee, just what I wanted to see a 100% collectivist agenda candidate forum. “So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause”.
Shawn Murphy
December 27th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Paul is ahead of Thompson and Huckabee in NH and ahead of all of them with $$ so I doubt he’ll be left out.
Plus the debate is right here in NH where he will be.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
If they hold it, Ron WILL be there. So,Shot you won’t have to be disappointed in the end.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Apparently beating every other Republican candidate in fund-raising is meaningless.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Go Ron Paul
December 28th, 2007 at 12:27 am
This has more than just a whiff of desperation to it. It seems pretty clear that the authoritarian faction of the GOP is scared of Ron Paul’s popularity, and not sure what to do about it. Primaries start in a week, they have a very split ticket, and Ron Paul is rising in the polls, so they are in panic mode. Like most decisions made in panic, this strategy has failure written all over it: the more blatently the media tries to exclude Dr Paul from its reindeer games, the more voters sit up and take notice. They are looking for somebody who can take us off the disastrous path we’ve been on for seven years… and who better represents a shakeup of the old status quo than a grassroots candidate who has raised more money this quarter than anybody else on the guest list, yet still doesn’t get invited to the party?
December 28th, 2007 at 12:56 am
“I’m also looking forward to seeing how the Ron Paul crowd reacts to their man being left out.”
What is it that you are looking forward to see? What do you expect? Are you looking forward as some form of gloat or are you simply curious to see what they’ll say? Are you expecting outrage or complacency and given either, what is your particular interest and opinion?
Why did you think there were too many people on stage before and at what point did the number of participants EVER figure into time allowed per candidate? How do you feel that it affected the debates of the past and will improve the upcoming debate? Is there something that you wanted to know about that eluded the list of topics covered? What is it that you still need to know? What more can you learn about these people that you didn’t know? Does it affect you either positively or negatively that the field of qualified candidates was arbitrarily pared down by some corporate executive or corporate/political committee? Does this alarm you in any way that small groups of men sitting in their high board rooms can make decisions regarding what is important or how much a nation is to hear of any given subject or idea? Or do you find this perfectly acceptable. And why are you alarmed or placated by such manipulation.
Did it bother you that Kucinich was dropped from the last debate? Was that fair to the American people to lose such a large percentage of alternative opinion and ideas because of an elite group of individuals decided the American people had heard enough of that particular idea?
Thanks for the heads up, you might try understanding that we SHOULD hear the second tier candidates as they are the un-anointed in the field and therefore the least controllable and probably the better choices for America.
December 28th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Narrowing the field might make sense, but given that Iowa’s caucus is a couple days beforehand, wouldn’t it be, oh, less patently stupid to just pick the top five coming out of Iowa?
December 28th, 2007 at 1:51 am
No such press release exists. See for yourself:
http://www.nhgop.org/press-releases/
December 28th, 2007 at 1:57 am
I was wrong. It’s in the Associated Press:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNxTApa2sQRu0Xx99P3jt2bEXw7gD8TQ2N282
December 28th, 2007 at 2:02 am
i support a second tier candidate, and i know it is time to get real. one of the candidates listed above is going to be the republican nominee, its time to trim the fat. paul is a joke of a republican and will most likely leave the party to run on his own, which will cost any republican a chance at being president. since that is most likely the case he should be left out.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:37 am
Yeah – Ron Paul will so be the next president. Let me know who your dealer is. That must be some good stuff.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:18 am
HELP! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!!!
December 28th, 2007 at 4:37 am
With a .308 Winchester.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Go Ron Paul, that’s all there is to it!
December 28th, 2007 at 6:28 am
And will you be answering the quality questions posted by Andy?
December 28th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Both the AP article AND this one:
http://bigheaddc.com/2007/12/27/fox-news-to-host-special-gop-candidate-forum/
simply say “here is who has ACCEPTED”. It never says anyplace that Ron has NOT been included. The NH GOP has never had a bad word to say about Ron.
In an article in yesterday’s UL, it says Rudy’s campaign doesn’t even KNOW about it yet…and Fergus says it’s hard to get commitments.
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=All+candidates+accept+debate+offer+from+ABC%2C+WMUR&articleId=141a7c52-a168-4f70-9497-8230e7309e9e
Scroll down to read it.
So, the AP has its head up its butt once again.
And you 2 bloggers are are assuming something that is not yet confirmed, in print, anyplace.
Your wishing it to be true doesn’t make it so.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
[...] guy named Andy posed the following questions on our post about the debate excluding Ron Paul when we said ““I’m also looking forward to seeing how the Ron Paul crowd reacts to their [...]
December 28th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
well i can see the paul supporters had there big glass of crazy this morning!
December 29th, 2007 at 12:53 am
It’s great they got rid of Ron Paul… that man is an annyoance and so is his campaign people. He’ll never get elected. Get over it.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:27 am
I notice that the taunts posted online by pro-tyranny voices have changed over the past few months. They used to talk about their own preferred candidate, now and then; that seems to have almost stopped. Now it’s just Paul-bashing — or, even less relevantly, Paul-*supporter*-bashing.
They’ve moved into stage 3.
RP 08 FTW
December 29th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Why would it be worth watching, when they all give the same answers?
December 30th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
“Ron Paul excluded from debate? Not exactly:
Candidate claims Fox is afraid of him, but forum canceled”
So is there a debate or not?
December 31st, 2007 at 2:14 am
It was all bogus started by bigheaddc.com so they are saying.