GOP Presidential Debate 2015

This is just too strange. Fox is only taking the top ten. Out of the top eight, four seem to me to have absoluteley no chance to be elected. Among the bottom eight, at least four seem to me to have a chance to be elected.

If I'm anywhere near correct, the GOP is essentially tossing away two or three of its best chances to take back the White House, just to appease Fox and the GOP Chairman. (What's his name? Ranch Pringle?)

[Hornsby]

I can't wait to hear the hard hitting, incisive questions the Fox News panel asks.

[Judge Jude]

wait, this is a "Survivor" episode? I thought it was just 10 candidates more than a year out....

[revo]

This was exactly my point in the Trumped thread. If that clown is not serious, he may be costing a "real" candidate a shot.

[chancellor]

I can't wait to hear the hard hitting, incisive questions the Fox News panel asks.

I'm sure all of them will be better than the CNN fat broad.

[GwynnInTheHall]

I'm sure all of them will be better than the CNN fat broad.

Sanders is the Misogynist?

[Lucky]

And Rick Santorum made that same point when someone suggested he would be out of the running if he didn't get into the debate. It's a pretty good point. Considering that Trump should flame out well before February, as well as The Huckster, Carson and probably Cruz, and also that Santorum will likely have done well in some primaries by then (given the fact that he is playing a ground game while the others are trying to game the Fox system), he and some of the others may have a little oxygen to breathe.

Observations/predictions: When Trump does finally drop out, it will not be his fault. It will be because the deck is stacked, or somebody conspired against him, or he has too much money to make elsewhere, or the job is too screwed up and beneath him...anything other than he didn't think he could win.

You notice now that every time Trump mentions another candidate, he mentions how poorly that candidate is doing in the polls and how well Trump is doing in the polls. This is an old lawyer trick, and I assume a trick in many other professions. Should Trump drop to, say, fourth in the polls, you'll hear him talk about how polls are unreliable, misleading, and how they had to start rigging them when they saw he was going to be #1 all the way. The less honorable device (which he uses ad nauseum) was the one he did on Graham, when he said Lindsey must not be popular in his own state based upon all the applause Trump was getting there. Logical fallacy, and pretty tacky in the other guy's home state.

[Wonderboy]

If I'm anywhere near correct, the GOP is essentially tossing away two or three of its best chances to take back the White House, just to appease Fox...

Well, you gotta have your priorities straight.

[Moonlight J]

and Kasich may not even make the list of 10 in the first debate in his own state where he has a 60% favorability rating. LOL

[Pogues]

wait, this is a "Survivor" episode? I thought it was just 10 candidates more than a year out....

Perhaps they should have all the candidates involved, make it a 3 day debate, with candidates voting each other off every 8 hours.

[Lucky]

Maybe they could do it like the old College Bowl. And the tossup goes to Cruz, Princeton!

Oh, sorry, Governor Walker.

[Cobain's Ghost]

This is just too strange. Fox is only taking the top ten. Out of the top eight, four seem to me to have absoluteley no chance to be elected. Among the bottom eight, at least four seem to me to have a chance to be elected.

If I'm anywhere near correct, the GOP is essentially tossing away two or three of its best chances to take back the White House, just to appease Fox and the GOP Chairman. (What's his name? Ranch Pringle?)

this happens every time there's a large field early in the campaign - they can't have everybody on the stage, they have to cut it off somewhere, and polling numbers are pretty much the only objective measure to pick the participants. they can't just arbitrarily pick the guys that some random dude on a baseball website thinks are the most qualified.