4 Years Ago There Was A Stage Full of Republicans Debating
This Year Shawn may have to do all the talking himself
South Carolina Republican Presidential Debate
Hannity Denies Certain Behaviors During His College Days/Nights
It is still on, with or without candidates. Fox News has discussed the possibility of renting candidates from a local Temp Agency but decided to go with another stragedy. If there is no candidate the Shawn Hannity work around will be employed, work around not reach around. More about that later.
This Guy Did So Well Last Time
The first debate of the 2012 Republican presidential primary contest appears set to go forward Thursday – even if there is just one major candidate on stage or one minor candidate or a couple of temporary candidates or just a right wing radio announcer attacking President Obama.
Field is So Thin Tim Pawlenty is Considered Top Tier
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is the only top-tier candidate expected to participate in the forum at the Peace Center in Greenville, S.C. Tim is very excited as this is the first time he has ever been top-tier in or at anything. How proud his family must be.
Odds are Snookie will be the Republican VP Choice for 2112
To introduce Tim and also to pose questions for the candidates Fox has arranged with the cast of Jersey Shore for Snookie to be its special guest. Snookie has a long relationship with Senator John McCain who sort of ran for President in 2008. As John remarked "Snookie, Sarah, Whatever".
Republicans have learned the lessons from 2008 and in picking Snookie for the VP candidate are insuring that simple questions can be answered rather than the candidate freezing in the headlights like a deer. What newspapers do you read Snookie? Snookie answers with out hesitation, "None."
IF the bail bondsman comes thru Rick will be there
Fox News, which is producing and staging the debate with the South Carolina Republican Party, said the other anticipated participants were former Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, restaurant executive Herman Cain and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. Ex Gov. Johnson is late night cable famous for his plans to legalize pot. Ron Paul spends a few weeks running for president every 4 years. He views it as being on vacation. He will be dropping out in late June. Since CNN retired Larry King these candidates have almost no where to go but Fox News and right wing radio.
Michele says She is Happy to be in South Carolina where the Civil War Ended
The importance of these Fox News Debates can not be underestimated as this is how Fox picks the Fox News Candidate for the President of the United States. The runner-ups go on to be contestants on Dances With The Stars or American Singing Idol or commentators on Fox News like Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin.
Ron Paul on Vacation
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, was originally expected to be included, will not meet Fox News’ requirement of garnering at least 1% in the five most recent national polls, said Michael Clemente, senior vice president of entertainment news for the cable news channel. For some reason Fox didn't want to pay for a couple of national polls to bring Roemer up to snuff or waive its requirements. Well they don't employ Roemer at Fox so that puts him in a singular and unique position.
Mitt has decided Not to Blow the Bank Roll on this one
Other Republicans considered likely or possible contenders in 2012 have opted not to participate, including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Ambassador Jon Huntsman, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Minnesota Rep. Michele
Bachmann, and former half term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and New York Blowhole Donald Trump.
They call him Mitch Daniels, WHO?
"Our job is not to marshal the field or to ask the tough questions of those republicans who do get in the race," Clemente said in a statement. "This is the first of our five debates, and I'm sure we'll be able to kick-start the conversation about who will be the next president of the United States and promote family values for our Fox News right wing conservative viewers."
Republicans Can't Get Enough of this Guy
Fox News laid out flexible criteria to qualify for the debate, including requiring candidates to register exploratory committees or to have announced a formal presidential campaign or to be considering a formal presidential campaign, to file or prepare to file all necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and pay all federal and South Carolina filing fees with a good check and make a minimum number of appearances on Fox News.
Can Donald Trump Raise the $25,000 entry fee
That amounts to $25,000 per candidate in South Carolina, due to the Republican party by 5 p.m. Tuesday. It's unclear who, if anyone, has yet paid. Fox would likely post the money for Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin if they can be talked into running. Donald Trump was re-structuring his finances to try and free up the 25
grand and Rick Santorum was trying to cut a deal with a bailbondsman that would allow him to front 10% and the bondsman would pony up the remainder. Party spokesman Joel Sawyer declined to comment further, adding that the information might be released Wednesday or much later than Wednesday.
Sarah is well rested after her half term as Gov.
Huckabee is learning to play Bass Guitar and may skip the party
And as of midday Tuesday, neither Santorum nor Cain had registered an exploratory committee or filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission and Trump had done nothing but talk about running and promote the final show of the season of his hit TV Show. Clemente said he expected all to do so by the end of the day. Clemente smiled and revealed he had expected to have a better paying job by this time in his life. Thats how it is with expectations, he said. Republicans expect to find another Ronald "Win One For The Gipper" Reagan.
The debate is set to air at 6 p.m. PDT/ 9 p.m. EDT on Fox News Thursday and will be re-run every two hours around the clock for the next 4 weeks or until a second debate takes place.
The start will be delayed until at least two candidates show up. In the event two candidates do not show up by 12 AM (Midnight) Shawn Hannity will interview the one candidate for two hours or if no one shows Hannity will tell lies about Democrats, Obama and the Obama administration for two hours and that will be re-run every two hours around the clock until the polls close on election night. Hannity said he was an experienced broadcaster and expected no problems as he had worked alone many times.
Based on the Supreme Court decision opening the floodgates on political donations Fox will provide an unlimited amount of funding to any republican running against Obama. Fox news, we tell you what to think and you decide to think it.
Though candidates are somewhat cool to the event, state party activists are not. The South Carolina GOP says that the event is "at capacity" and almost all of the 200 seats are spoken for.
Rumor has it that Stephen Colbert will not be in attendance but many remember his magnificent 2008 run that energized the
Republican party.
At that time Colbert was run out of the race because of cooperate sponsorship but since that point the Supreme Court has decided that anything goes in politics. After republicans ran Colbert off Barack Obama became the possesor of the "Famous Colbert Bump" and went on to victory and a new residence at Number 1, Pennsylvania Avenue.
South Carolina's Favorite and Number 1 Pick
Without question republicans and Fox News have put a great deal of planning into these debates. Much more planning than Fox does for an hour and a half of entertainment on its coast to coast network. No spectatle of this magnitude could have occurred while Michael Steele was leading the RNC. It is easy to see the great changes that Rance Prebis has wrought.
Steele was winning everything in sight, Look for big changes with Rance
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Also in The News
AT the White House Correspondents' dinner Donald Trump was the source of many of the jokes of the evening, and he's not finding it very funny. Here's TRUMP Whining, "I had no idea it would be to that extent, where you know, it was just joke after joke after joke. It was almost like, is there anyone else they could talk about? So in a certain way I was honored, but you know again the economy is having such a, it's going through such a traumatic period, I was thinking to myself, it just seems inappropriate.”
Donald Trump is an insuferable blowhole and for him to complin about others talking about him is beyond funny.
BLOW-HOLE
The Tea Party was also the butt of many jokes at the dinner. Although Seth Meyers joked he'd be getting an "angry voicemail from Ginni Thomas in 18 years," Thomas may be one of the few upset by the remarks. It seem the conservative fringe group's popularity has been sinking, and 47 percent of Americans disapprove of them now, according to a recent Gallup poll.
This weekend Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum addressed an NRA convention, where he told the group that Obama "doesn't understand" America, and that the administration is "anti-gun" and "anti-second amendment."
And Sarah Palin jumped on the new meme of questioning the president's academic achievements, asking "What the heck is wrong with asking the president of the United States to disclose what his college thesis was, what some of the Harvard Law Review papers were that he wrote?" Amazing isn't it, Sarah doesn't even read the newspaper and she's interested in Obama's writing. Remember that if Sarah didn't take a cheap shot she would have no shot at all. How long before this Alaskan BIMBO shuts her trap and stays home? Not too long, I suspect.
We still have no clue who is likely to get the GOP nomination for president, but Florida Senator Markio Rubio is making it clear that he does not want to be considered for any vice presidential spot. Meanwhile, Tim Pawlenty is still desperately looking for someone, anyone, to debate him at this week's Fox News Presidential debate.
And monday morning came with the shocking news that Osama bin Laden, mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, is dead, and his body in U.S. custody.
All in all a great weekend.
Republicans Want Credit
After nearly a decade of action, Osama bin Laden is finally dead, according to the President. But there is an election coming up, so while Republicans are willing to celebrate the death of the face of
terrorism for the United States, they definitely aren't going to willingly cede ground by giving Barack Obama much credit for the event.
Bush Laughing after finding out he had terminated Bin Laden
Republicans claim they were waterboarding a prisioner and as he lay upside strangeling on water he was heard to say abb-baa-aoo-ott-tab-aba-aba-bad. Though not completely understood at the time 6 years ago Republicans now know the prisioner was naming the town Bin Laden was living in. The pisoner died 4 and a half years ago but republicans are certain he was saying Abbottabad, the very town Bin Laden was found in. George W Bush deserves all the credit for President Obama finding and terminating Osama Bin Laden.
Tea Party queen Sarah Palin placed an effusive note on her Facebook page praising, "...all the brave men and women in our military and our intelligence services who contributed to carrying out the successful mission to bring Bin Laden to justice and who laid the groundwork over the years to make this victory possible," very studiously avoiding mentioning the President at all.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was certain to give Obama third billing in his statement, following everyone else, including former President George Bush. "I commend our troops, the intelligence community, and the military leaders involved in both the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama for their perseverance and courage in pursuit of this most grievous enemy of the United States of America."
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his team were first of potential 2012 presidential contenders out of the gate to congratulate the U.S. intelligence forces for killing Osama bin Laden, but declined to give credit to President Barack Obama.
Here are some other spins the republicans are trying:
.....it's easy to overestimate the significance of Osama's demise: Remember when we thought finding Saddam would turn the tide in Iraq?
To figure out the Republican playbook for these statements, you only have to read the Alternet list of potential spins, and you will see that each public comment falls into one of their listed categories:
1. The Tea Party GOP will say that it was actually Bush that set the wheels in motion to get Osama bin Laden -- that Osama was killed under Obama's watch is just a coincidence.
2. The Right will suggest that Osama bin Laden was actually a figurehead at this point and his death means nothing.
3. Osama's death is a vindication of George Bush's misadventures in the Middle East. History will remember him well.
But we'll finally know that they are scraping the bottom of the barrel if they start congratulating the new royal couple on their part in the death of the terrorist. After all, it was their wedding that
provided the distraction that allowed the mission to finally be accomplished.
Republicans desperately want the American people to think they had something to do with terminating Bin Laden.
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