If Perry didn’t attend one debate or one Interview how come he’s the GOP front runner?
Rick Perry is an Al Gore minion, so naturally Washington wants him.
He runs a large state with the best record on the economy and jobs even in this recession.
If he can do for America what he did in Texas y’all would be a lot better off.
If Perry didn’t attend one debate or one Interview how come he’s the GOP frontrunner?will they be dissapointed?
Yecch.
Should the GOP keep Palin from having anymore interviews and cancel the VP debate?
They know how to win elections. This is exactly what they will be doing.
Why doesn’t the Florida GOP want Gary Johnson to be allowed to debate?
But the former New Mexico governor and fledgling presidential candidate still won’t be on the ballot at Saturday’s Presidency 5 straw poll, since the Florida GOP controls that order exclusively.
Fox and the state party disagreed on an interpretation of the rules, which require a candidate to receive at least 1 percent support in five recent national polls, said Florida GOP spokesman Brian Hughes. But Fox tweaked the criteria to require candidates only poll 1 percent in the last five polls in which they were presented as an option, allowing Johnson to qualify.
“We had a sense of what their criteria meant and they felt their criteria was clear,” Hughes said. “I think it’s fair to say there is a misunderstanding in how non-inclusive polls would be considered.”
Fox News included Johnson at the first debate of the season, in South Carolina in May, but not in the debate it hosted just before the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa.
The reasons behind the network’s decision to alter the rules in a way that seems to have specifically benefited Johnson’s campaign were not clear, and a Fox spokeswoman did not comment on that or the disagreement with the state party over Johnson’s invitation to Thursday’s debate.
Johnson, in an interview with POLITICO, said he has not received word of the invitation, but said he’d take it if offered. He said he doesn’t plan to use the debate stage to make a spectacle of his campaign, but will reiterate his campaign themes.
“I would be saying things different than everyone else up there,” he said. “I’m promising to submit a balanced budget in 2013. I am promising to veto spending legislation that exceeds revenue. I am promising to overhaul the tax code, that means throwing out the entire federal tax system and replacing it with the fair tax.”
Johnson is no stranger to Fox: since June 1, Johnson has appeared on Fox outlets 18 times, according to the liberal Fox monitor Media Matters. That figure is more than fellow GOP candidates Mitt Romney (eight times), Jon Huntsman (11) and Rick Perry (five) — though Huntsman and Perry entered the race in July and August, respectively.
Hughes said the state party used its interpretation of the rules to disqualify Johnson from the Saturday straw poll, for which ballots have already been sent to the printer.
“The Republican Party of Florida was using a version of the criteria to determine placement on our straw poll ballot,” Hughes said. “For logistical reasons, we had a different deadline. Based on using the criteria with a different deadline cut-off, Gary Johnson does not qualify for placement on the actual ballot that will be distributed Saturday.”
Johnson spokesman Joe Hunter said it is “not surprising” that Johnson is being excluded from the straw poll ballot.
“Straw polls,” he said, “are not what our campaign is about.”
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most people are tired of hearing all the BS some politicians are saying to get our votes
there is an old saying ” your actions speak louder than words”…maybe people are wanting
a man who can be still instead of bragging or slinging mud at others to get their votes
I know I am sick of it…the debates are worse than a tv roast…I’d rather see what they did,if they followed through with what they said they would do…everyone had skeletons in their closets..so it gets old to only hear that over & over,rather than what they plan on doing…kinda like pointing the finger at others os no one will really look at how bad you may be
The same reason Palin gave a boost to McCain.
Most of them haven’t heard him speak yet.
Because he’s new and shiny and most people know nothing about him.
Remember, Donald Trump was the frontrunner in the polls when he first announced.
Fun fact: The only way he balanced the Texas budget was through stimulus funds.
Yes, a lot of it has to do with Perry’s newness – once people realize he’s a backward hick, they’ll cool off toward him. On the other hand, we are talking about the GOP…
Righties don’t care if their candidate does a debate.
John Boehner declined to participate in SEVEN debates with his opponent last year. Every single debate – he bailed. The election wasn’t close ‘cuz Boehner’s voters are stupid and don’t much care to learn.
Now, we’ve got a part-time speaker of the house who refuses to write a jobs bill.
No, they should keep letting her speak out everywhere. Look at the anger she’s bringing out of you liberals. It’s amusing yet pathetic.
It’d be in their best interest. Compared to Hillary Clinton, this lady is a joke.
Only if they want to win.
Their already have because two days in a roll; she has managed to unravel the mystic about her presence into a dwarfing approval rating.
A ham sandwich in front of the microphone on convention night would’ve gotten the same response ’cause McCain is so deadly dull but it’s becoming more and more apparent that Palin is failin’.
lol, she’s so toast, you almost feel sorry for her
Only is Biden is scared of her.
All they need to do is have her interview on Fox News. We know how “fair and balanced” they are!
Should you be banned from asking questions like this?
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For the McCain campaign I think she should quit talking but for the Obama campaign—lets hear more, the more she talks the more people will she how under prepared she is.
Govenor Palin is not backing off just because the Democrats are scared.
If Senator Biden wants to forfeit the VP debate, then let him. Otherwise he faces Sarah the Barracuda face to face!
God help him!
Because Gary Johnson is not a globalist as are both parties, Democrat and Republican,and most all members of Congress belong to big globalist organization called The Foreign Relations Committee. I doubt Johnson is a member, I know Ron Paul is not as a non globalist. Globalist elites who run our country and others through banks, corporations, media would never want a non globalist to be President, when will they be called out?