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- TheLagerLad
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Re: The Trumpster Flexes His Muscle
Rongone wrote:
"If the candidates are going to be forced into them, I don't blame them for wanting to get an approach and a setup that works best for their particular campaign.". LagerLad
I'll bet they don't allow their kids that option when it comes to their own family in regards to child rearing. Besides, this isn't supposed to be all about what works best for their particular campaign, it's supposed to be about what's best for the voters and the country.
Right, but just because of the number of candidates in the field, someone is always going to get short shrift around the number of questions they are asked, while someone else (see: Trump, Donald) is going to get the lion's share of the questions because he's good for ratings, he's likely to say something interesting/absurd/repulsive/dumb, and the media wants to have a story to come out of the event.
And so if you don't subscribe to liking the Republican party, I get that the candidates would sound whiney. But let's say you actually really like one of the candidates. And that candidate gets 3 questions over 2 hours, and just has to sit there while the moderators, who very strategically map out the questions in order to put on the best "show", focus the majority of the time on two or three candidates in an effort to get that 30 second soundbite.
I think the frustration that candidate and their supporters would feel is reasonable and that they would want to see changes made to the whole format of future debates.
I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
- Just Fred
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Ok, I'll go back to my original question: Who's running the Republican Party, or to put it another way, who's calling the shots?
Here's an article that sheds some light on the "debate over the debates" .............
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Ok, I'll go back to my original question: Who's running the Republican Party, or to put it another way, who's calling the shots?
The Republican Party is my opinion, is largely leaderless. Reince Prebius has no idea how to manage the grassroots kooks, the well heeled establishment, nor the loudmouth leading candidate who is hardly anybody's idea of a Republican.
Will Rodgers had this quote, "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." I think he said it somewhere back in the 1910's. A hundred years later, that quote clearly belongs to today's GOP.
I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
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Reince Priebus can't handle his group of pre-schoolers any better than Boehner was able to handle his. The factional candidates will throw a tantrum any time the current set of circumstances do not fit with their agenda. They will go off in a corner, sulk about it, generate a new set of circumstances that they believe favors them, and spring it on everyone. The results are basically chaos.
And especially when you have to deal with certain self centered kids with a HUGE ego and a bad case of ADHD . . . Like this bozo:
Donald Trump Wants to Get Paid for Debate Appearances
Donald Trump wants to get paid for his appearances in future GOP debates. The money, he says, will go to charities helping wounded military personnel and veterans.
The real estate mogul detailed his demands to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday, only hours after announcing he intends to individually negotiate his own terms going forward with the debates, and would not sign a letter drafted by fellow GOP candidates outlining a list of their demands.
“I personally don’t care too much in terms of the debate; they’ve been hitting me one way or another. I guess I have been doing very well. I just want to have the debates. I like the debates,” Trump said, adding, “The networks are making a fortune with the debate. I’d like to see the wounded warriors and the veterans get some of the profits. I mean, we’re going in, we’re getting nothing, and that’s fine. But [the networks] are getting tremendous … 23, 24 million people.”
Trump was also asked whether he would also insist on Republican moderators at the debates, something the other candidates wanted — Trump said, “I just want to answer the questions and be done with it. Frankly we’re doing well.”
Stephanopoulos also showed Trump a video of President Obama mocking GOP candidates for saying they would be tough on Putin while complaining about a “bunch of CNBC moderators.”
“He can’t handle the country,” Trump said of the President. “He’s doing a terrible job running the country.”
Asked what he thought of Ben Carson, Trump acknowledged “it’s going to be probably, maybe tight,” adding the retired neurosurgeon didn’t “have the experience” needed for the job.
Trump came in to plug his new book, Crippled America, which hits bookstores Tuesday.
He was there to plug his book. A self promoting showman at his best. P.T. Barnum would be proud.
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Speaking of the Trumpster's latest schtick promoting himself and sticking it his rivals at the same time .......
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