God bless, Steve
Are you perhaps referring to Carly?
That's funny, considering Carly Fiorina is a GOP Establishment type candidate. Like Donald, she is very bold in what she says, and I agree with some of what she says. Whether her past record can stand up to her present rhetoric, however, is a completely different story. Also like Donald.
OK, so by your logic, The Donald is the "chosen one." After all, he's the one who's getting all the air time from the msm.
Spike, if that were true, then Jeb Bush would be on the stage debating himself because all those not chosen would be out.
God bless, Steve
You can stand there straight faced and claim that Jeb is not the EGOP "chosen one"???
That is a new low for you, my friend!"
That's not what I said, and it's not what I meant.
My point was simply that there are multiple "Establishment" type candidates, and she's one of them, definitely. You're acting like she's a dyed-in-the-wool Tea Party Conservative raging against the Establishment and therefore they're conspiring to keep her off the stage. That is ridiculous, take a look at her record. She may be more charismatic and willing to take on Hillary than some of the other Establishment candidates, but she's still an Establishment candidate and it would give the GOP elite no heartburn to have her as the nominee like it would if Ted Cruz was the nominee. There's no conspiracy here. The debate rules were set months ago. There's no doubt that from her performance in the first debate, she has vaulted herself at least into the "middle" tier of candidates. However, should they change the rules of who gets in the debate just to accommodate one candidate who thinks they deserve to get in? Maybe if she wanted so badly to get in the debates she should have found a way to get more traction in the polls over the last several months.
CNN had been expecting there would be fifteen national polls between the first debate and the second one as has been the historic average.
Now that it appears there will only be five such polls, they have changed their weighting to more accurately reflect recent results and trends.
"Perhaps I misunderstood you, and you me, but rest assured that the rules were set months ago specifically to favor those who did well early on and the EGOP made sure Jeb was at the top of the list while denying it even cared."
What utter nonsense!
The rules were set to include a base of polling data averages for rolling time periods prior to each debate. By rolling the time periods, candidates who were moving up would be more likely to be included than those (like Jeb!) who were moving down.
Not everything is a conspiracy, Spike!
What an amazing statement. The rules got changed because she is very high in the polls, not at all because she doesn't like the outcome. No one with any sense of right and wrong was against her being in the debate. Truth is that this was a huge surprise to most people that the top ten at the time of the debate were not going to be the ones allowed in the debate. Fox did not announce who was in their debate until just before the debate. Funny how we expected CNN to do what was right.
God bless, Steve
Yep, me too.
Within my business we change and adjust our "rules" all the time as we see fit. Some ideas sound good until they hit the street, then they don't work like you think they should have. You change em. Or dump the plan altogether and come up with a new one.
Big difference between "rules" and laws and regulations. If no contract was signed between the parties that forbid her being included then essentially there is not a problem. At the same time you honor the spirit of the agreement to those who are engaged in it.
And while I may think Bush is a putz, if he were being excluded based on low ratings months ago and now is pulling much higher numbers even as others dropped.... yeah, put him in. Nobody else can cry fowl as they were not excluded, even if they have dropped to near irrelevance.
Or in other words.... even if they should have been....=D
God bless, Steve
HA/KS: My answer was given by TD./ Yes I would change the rules to allow one in that was In the top ten ratings. I believe what they have decided to do is both fair and equitable. And yes if Bush were in Carleys position my sense of fairness would apply to him although I will never vote for the man nor see him as suitable for any public office.
God bless, Steve
God bless, Steve
Yes, CNN is a business. So is the GOP.
