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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNote to republican debate complainers...
If, in the world as seen through the looking glass, you find that one of you has been elected President please note that the questions will not only continue but get harder and more pointed. You actually would have to respond in a rational and adult manner. The real world in which you seem to have little experience will not allow the leader of the most powerful nation on earth to whine and cry about how tough and hard life is. You purport to be the strong, tough and resilient political party that is founded on the frontier spirit emblematic of the resourceful, hard fighting folk who created this country. Well, act like it! I suggest you take a page from President Obama' Book of Class to see how a real man responds to the hard realities of leading a nation. If you can't face answering questions about your own actions and statements how are you ever going to acquire the character to face anything else. It may be humorous to op ed writers and pundits to poke fun at your antics, but I see you as immature, willfully ignorant and dangerously ideological. You are running for the Presidency of the United States, act like it. Not a single one of you has demonstrated the intellectual or psychological qualities required of a county clerk let alone a President. The media is not the problem, your penchant for free stuff is the problem. You want to have freedom from hard questions, freedom from being held to your prior statements, freedom from having your actions exposed to the nation, freedom to say anything regardless of its truth or lack there of, freedom to accuse, with impunity, your opponents of moral or physical short comings. In short you want intellectual Welfare of the type you so heartily complain poor people getting. You want free handouts as questions, 'soup kitchen questions' as it were. You might want to take a clue from the democratic debates and the demeanor on display there. No one complained about the hard questions and no one called their opponents dumb names like they were on some kindergarten play ground. Don't forget, one of you is going to have to debate one of the democrats. You, whichever republican candidate you are should be afraid, very afraid. Get a grip and act like you deserve to be considered as a possible candidate for the office you are running for, stop be an embarrassment to our country. Yes, I'm a democrat and would never vote for any of you, but that doesn't mean I want the world laughing at my country because of its klown car political party known as the republicans.
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's a big block of text.
Visually, it does not invite reading, with no paragraph breaks and single spacing after periods.
Earth Bound Misfit
(3,554 posts)It is so very important that when you pen a manifesto that you eschew paragraphs, punctuation and cogent thought.
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)And while I agree that any Presidential candidate needs to be able to answer tough questions, I would personally prefer tough questions that actually relate to the position being sought.
None of the debate moderators have been outstanding, IMO, but CNBC took competency in moderator duties to a new low. Again, JMO.
randome
(34,845 posts)What's interesting is Reince Preibus' reaction. He is obviously the most unreliable 'leader' of all time. He says he's "pissed as hell" but now the candidates are meeting together without his input.
Just further evidence of the weakening of the RNC -and the GOP- as we go along. They are falling apart before our eyes. It's beautiful.
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FSogol
(45,488 posts)and media in lieu of answering any questions.
BTW, the reason the media wants fantasy football to be a major topic is that they are cashing in on advertisements by that unregulated industry and are afraid that the Democrats will call for regulation.
In the next GOP debate look for Khloe Kardasian to read questions that the candidates wrote themselves.