The Rising GOP Debate Strategy - Don't Debate

[candycorn]

a Laurel and Hardy short, I believe.

306>232.

 

[rightwinger]

Well, this is interesting.

If you want to avoid tough questions about your behaviors and positions in debates, just don't show up to debate. Then say the debate was unfair, as an excuse.

The Republicans have threatened not to debate in the Presidential debates. Now Cawthorn and Walker are doing it. Who's next, do you suppose?

America's electoral process is being destroyed in real time. Right in front of us. A relatively small group of people who want to rip it all down are winning.

Herschel Walker’s no-show looms large over Senate GOP debate

Former football great Herschel Walker skipped the first major Republican U.S. Senate debate, but his absence at the event in Gainesville on Saturday helped shape the back-and-forth among the five candidates who showed up.

www.ajc.com

Republicans May Nuke the 2024 Presidential Debate Process

After Donald Trump whined about “unfair” treatment in 2016 and 2020, the RNC is threatening to pull out of future contests overseen by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.

www.vanityfair.com

Update: Fresh off Trump rally, cocaine orgy story, Cawthorn declines April 11 debate

After a turbulent week that included being chastised by party leaders, Rep. Madison Cawthorn will not attend the April 11 debate.

www.citizen-times.com

Hawthorne does not want to defend his past statements

Walker does not want to expose how little he knows of the issues

Best they stay away from debates

 

[Mac-7]

Well, this is interesting.

If you want to avoid tough questions about your behaviors and positions in debates, just don't show up to debate. Then say the debate was unfair, as an excuse.

The Republicans have threatened not to debate in the Presidential debates. Now Cawthorn and Walker are doing it. Who's next, do you suppose?

America's electoral process is being destroyed in real time. Right in front of us. A relatively small group of people who want to rip it all down are winning.

Herschel Walker’s no-show looms large over Senate GOP debate

Former football great Herschel Walker skipped the first major Republican U.S. Senate debate, but his absence at the event in Gainesville on Saturday helped shape the back-and-forth among the five candidates who showed up.

www.ajc.com

Republicans May Nuke the 2024 Presidential Debate Process

After Donald Trump whined about “unfair” treatment in 2016 and 2020, the RNC is threatening to pull out of future contests overseen by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.

www.vanityfair.com

Update: Fresh off Trump rally, cocaine orgy story, Cawthorn declines April 11 debate

After a turbulent week that included being chastised by party leaders, Rep. Madison Cawthorn will not attend the April 11 debate.

www.citizen-times.com

When are you biden voters gonna learn?

any game senile old joe can come up with repubs can learn to play

 

[struth]

Something drastically has to be changed. We have seen how debate mods have conspired with the DNC and gave them questions in advance, we saw the Committee literally simply cancel a scheduled debate and never make it up after the Dem got beat in the first

So something has to be done before the GOP should debate the demafasict

 

[Auld Phart]

306>232.

306>232.

304-227 in 2016...


But, Trump cheated, right?

 

[there4eyeM]

One thing that could be done is to have what is really a debate, not responding to questions without answering them.

 

[Harry Dresden]

unless the people ask the questions and these people have to answer right there, it aint no debate...having them know what topics are going to be talked about and letting them get prepared doesnt mean shit.....

 

[there4eyeM]

unless the people ask the questions and these people have to answer right there, it aint no debate...having them know what topics are going to be talked about and letting them get prepared doesnt mean shit.....

...or, rather, means exactly that.

 

[konradv]

Lincoln said it best:

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It’s actually a rewording of Proverbs 17:28.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

It's not really a debate when those conducting it are invested in partisan outcomes. Debates are good and debates are healthy, but when those who run the debates work to engineer an outcome, the very process is compromised.

In any case, I do find it highly ironic that those who support a puppet who hid in his basement for months leading up to the 2020 election are now throwing stones at those they have been instructed to hate.

 

[Mac1958]

You implied that not having debates was destroying the electoral process. Dont deny it. It was wrong.
They are not attached in any way nor should they.
Read what you write if you want credibility.

Rather than attacking out of ignorance, you may have asked for clarification first.

"Hey Mac, are you saying that not having debates is destroying our electoral process all by itself?"

Clarification. It's a good thing.

Funny, I have to say the same thing to the orange cultists.

 

[Mac1958]

Hawthorne does not want to defend his past statements

Walker does not want to expose how little he knows of the issues

Best they stay away from debates

And it could very well work.

Again, demonstrating how far we've fallen.

 

[rightwinger]

It's not really a debate when those conducting it are invested in partisan outcomes. Debates are good and debates are healthy, but when those who run the debates work to engineer an outcome, the very process is compromised.

In any case, I do find it highly ironic that those who support a puppet who hid in his basement for months leading up to the 2020 election are now throwing stones at those they have been instructed to hate.

You mean like when they couldn’t get Trump to shut up?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

we saw the Committee literally simply cancel a scheduled debate and never make it up after the Dem got beat in the first

Except the Dem did not get beat in the first. At the worst it was a draw which was a win for Joe as Trump had been painting him as weak and fragile for months and then Biden held his own for the whole debate, even winning it by some standards.

 

[Mac1958]

Presumably, this is one of the neat benefits of having someone convince you that you're "at war".

Ignore the rules, ignore the guidelines, ignore intellectual honesty, ignore anything you have to. Just beat the "enemy".

 

[Moonglow]

Remind me.

When was winning the popular vote necessary for winning the presidency?

When the electoral college decided their popular vote counted more than the popular votes from the rest of America.

 

[Couchpotato]

The GOP knows that losing huge states like CA and NY by landslides is irrelevant. Any vote above what's needed to win, means nothing.

So now they've learned (and you have to give them credit for this) that it's not how many votes you get, it's where and how you get them. Then add a little more control over the electoral/voting process, and the actual "will of the people" doesn't matter.

Who needs to debate now? They've figured this out, and they know they can get away with it.

Yeah this is some secret only GOP politicians have figured out... I hear the only reason the NE Patriots won so many SB's is because they "figured out" that scoring more points than your opponent wins games not how many yards you gained. Shh though dont tell the rest of the league.

 

[Couchpotato]

When the electoral college decided their popular vote counted more than the popular votes from the rest of America.

So in other words since ratification of the US Constitution then.

 

[Moonglow]

So in other words since ratification of the US Constitution then.

Yes indeed.

 

[SC Patriot]

Well, this is interesting.

If you want to avoid tough questions about your behaviors and positions in debates, just don't show up to debate. Then say the debate was unfair, as an excuse.

The Republicans have threatened not to debate in the Presidential debates. Now Cawthorn and Walker are doing it. Who's next, do you suppose?

America's electoral process is being destroyed in real time. Right in front of us. A relatively small group of people who want to rip it all down are winning.

Herschel Walker’s no-show looms large over Senate GOP debate

Former football great Herschel Walker skipped the first major Republican U.S. Senate debate, but his absence at the event in Gainesville on Saturday helped shape the back-and-forth among the five candidates who showed up.

www.ajc.com

Republicans May Nuke the 2024 Presidential Debate Process

After Donald Trump whined about “unfair” treatment in 2016 and 2020, the RNC is threatening to pull out of future contests overseen by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.

www.vanityfair.com

Update: Fresh off Trump rally, cocaine orgy story, Cawthorn declines April 11 debate

After a turbulent week that included being chastised by party leaders, Rep. Madison Cawthorn will not attend the April 11 debate.

www.citizen-times.com

So I guess you are saying that Americans are so stupid, they will vote for a candidate who refused to debate.

Glad to see you have faith in the American collective intelligence.