Kasich dropped out too and the debate has been cancelled.
Speaking of CLUELESS!
Once Trump chickened out, Kasich dropped out. Had Trump not ran away in fear... Kasich would still be in the Fox News debate.
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"This morning, Donald Trump announced he would not be participating in the debate," Fox News Channel Executive Vice President Michael Clemente said in a statement. "Shortly afterward, John Kasich's campaign announced that without Trump at the debate, Kasich would not participate.
(Washington Post)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
RNC Official Says Party Decides Nominee, Not Voters
NO! Say it's not so!! Don't tell me voting is a waste of time! You've been convincing me that voting was my "duty" as a citizen. Now you are telling me that a couple thousand party officials(selected delegates) ACTUALLY decide our choice of rulers? That sounds very similar to Soviet democracy.LMAO
Once Trump chickened out, Kasich dropped out. Had Trump not ran away in fear... Kasich would still be in the Fox News debate.
(Washington Post)
I guess 12 or 13 debates isn't enough. And seriously Boxy, you sound just like the Cruz-bots over at the TheBlaze.com. "Donald is scared to debate Cruz"...As the tears are flowing out of their faces.
Why should he? So Kelly, Cruz and Kasich can just tee off on him for 2 or 3 hrs.? Because that's what it'll be.
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
That rates as one of your dumbest interpretations!
Yeah...Because Kasich who is last in the race dropped out of the debate and gave up two hours of free prime-time air time on a network that is watched mostly by Republican voters. Kasich, the guy who complained he didn't get enough speaking time at the previous debates, is now passing on an opportunity get out his message without Trump dominating the stage. That was smart of him. It's Trump's fault.
Anyways, Kasich dropping out gave FOX News an excuse to cancel the debate and saved them the embarrassment of airing a debate that most American's wouldn't watch if Fox News Channel was the only channel they had available and watching paint dry was their other option.
Yeah...Because Kasich who is last in the race dropped out of the debate and gave up two hours of free prime-time air time on a network that is watched mostly by Republican voters. Kasich, the guy who complained he didn't get enough speaking time at the previous debates, is now passing on an opportunity get out his message without Trump dominating the stage. That was smart of him. It's Trump's fault.
Anyways, Kasich dropping out gave FOX News an excuse to cancel the debate and saved them the embarrassment of airing a debate that most American's wouldn't watch if Fox News Channel was the only channel they had available and watching paint dry was their other option.
^^ this
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
Yeah...Because Kasich who is last in the race dropped out of the debate and gave up two hours of free prime-time air time on a network that is watched mostly by Republican voters. Kasich, the guy who complained he didn't get enough speaking time at the previous debates, is now passing on an opportunity get out his message without Trump dominating the stage. That was smart of him. It's Trump's fault.
Anyways, Kasich dropping out gave FOX News an excuse to cancel the debate and saved them the embarrassment of airing a debate that most American's wouldn't watch if Fox News Channel was the only channel they had available and watching paint dry was their other option.
^5
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When Donald Trump decided to change his party affiliation from DEMOCRAT to REPUBLICAN, he agreed to abide by party rules... Even those rules on BROKERED CONVENTIONS:
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Republican Party Under Rule 40b of the Republican National Convention rules, a candidate must have the support of a majority of the delegates of at least eight states in order to get the nomination. Rule 40e then states that if no candidate has received the majority of votes, "the chairman of the convention shall direct the roll of the states be called again and shall repeat the calling of the roll until a candidate shall have received a majority of the votes."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Since its first convention in 1856, the Republican Party has had ten presidential elections in which no candidate coming into the convention had a majority of delegates. In 1860, Sen. William H. Seward entered the convention as the favorite, with 37%of the delegates. After three ballots, the convention settled on the 2nd place contender, who had only 22% of the delegates. That 2nd Place Contender...PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
...............oooooo...they're fired up in this one!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The 2012 'Ron Paul Rule' Change to stop Ron Paul actually help Trump.
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Hogan Gidley: Rule GOP Establishment Wrote to Block Ron Paul Now Prevents Them from Blocking Trump AP, ReutersAP, Reuters by JOHN HAYWARD 16 Mar 2016
Hogan Gidley, who served as national communications director for Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign, appeared on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon to discuss a crucial aspect of the Republican primary: the previously obscure, but increasingly notorious, Rule 40.
Technically, most of the analysts citing Rule 40 are referring to the current version of Rule 40(b), which sets a certain minimum threshold for candidates at the Republican National Convention. According to this rule, candidates must arrive at the convention with a majority of the delegates from eight states or territories, or else they are disqualified from the first round. In most elections, this is a mere formality because the clear winner of the nomination is well-known before the convention begins, making the convention an extended infomercial for the party and its nominee.
Of course, there is good reason to suspect the Republican convention will be rather more exciting this year. Gidley noted there is apprehension among front-runner Donald Trump’s supporters that the GOP Establishment will use some “shenanigans” to “steal” the nomination from him at the convention. Among those shenanigans could be changing Rule 40 to bring candidates who don’t meet the established minimum threshold into the game.
There are two ghosts from the 2012 election haunting the Shakespearean drama of the 2016 primary, and Gidley invoked them both in a single breath: Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.
“This is actually called the ‘Ron Paul Rule.’ The Romney people put this in place,” Gidley explained. “The Establishment hurt Ron Paul, but I think this Establishment rule will actually help Donald Trump.”
Gidley noted there is no way for one of the last three remaining candidates, Governor John Kasich of Ohio, to win the necessary majority of delegates from eight states. Texas Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% currently stands at seven.
He further asserted that, contrary to much speculation from pundits, Rule 40(b) technically blocks disqualified candidates from participating in any of the subsequent ballots, which scuttles the notion of denying Trump victory in an initial vote where only he and Cruz are qualified candidates, and then parachuting some other Establishment-preferred candidate into the convention hall to seize the nomination, possibly someone who didn’t even run in the 2016 primary at all.
(Cruz is arguably even less acceptable to the Establishment of his own party than Trump — a point that will be made by many an anguished Hamlet delivering monologues over the skull of Marco Yorick in the weeks ahead, to continue that Shakespeare metaphor.)
Rule 40 “was an effort to stop the Ron Paul faction from gaining traction at the convention,” Gidley recalled. “And now we see the fruits of that rule, which was designed to stop Ron Paul, could effectively stop the Establishment.”
“The second part of the rule is, you can’t even count votes for anybody else who doesn’t meet that threshold,” he pointed out. “So people can try to submit votes for other people — like Kasich, or like Rubio, or like Romney — but if you haven’t won a majority of the delegates in eight states, you can’t be on any ballot, at any time. First, second, third, fourth, fifth — it doesn’t matter.”
It has been suggested that the Rules Committee will simply change Rule 40 to arrange whatever outcome is necessary to block Trump, but Gidley was skeptical of this idea. Normally, a presumptive candidate who has reached the “magic number” of bound delegates needed to secure the nomination can control the rules. If Trump is held below that 1,237-delegate threshold this year, the Rules Committee could theoretically rewrite the rules to hurt him, but Gidley anticipated sheer chaos if such tactics were employed.
“If you think people are mad now … it’s gonna be a political jihad,” he warned.
...............oooooo...they're fired up in this one!!!
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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