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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 02:13 PM Nov 2015

Republican Debate 'requests'



https://twitter.com/costareports/status/661208582059233280

They also demand to know who is allowed to be in the audience and what instructions they are given about cheering. And for certain sweatier candidates, they also demand that the temperature be kept below 67 degrees.

All of this reeks of a growing insecurity within the Republican Party about their presidential chances. Despite having 15 active candidates, they have zero stand outs who have any hope of being elected in the general election. Their biggest candidates – Trump, Carson, and Fiorina – have proven to be fact-checking manna from heaven. They simply cannot stop saying truly idiotic things into microphones. This is especially true during debates.

It’s no wonder than that the Republican Party is hoping to quash any hope of a candid, informed debate about policy and instead turn the “debates” into heavily-scripted performance pieces played out on stage. This letter seems to prove everything critics have been saying about the Republican presidential field: They are shallow clowns incapable of answering hard questions without completely falling apart and crying about big bad liberals being mean.

How unpresidential.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/02/heres-the-embarrassing-list-of-debate-demands-republicans-just-sent-to-networks/



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Republican Debate 'requests' (Original Post) one_voice Nov 2015 OP
Questions are hard. liberal N proud Nov 2015 #1
Why don't they just go to paid cable. Historic NY Nov 2015 #2
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