Nancy Reagan invites 16 candidates to CNN GOP presidential debate

[Geee]

Washington Examiner:

Former first lady Nancy Reagan is inviting 16 Republican candidates to participate in the CNN/Reagan Library presidential debate.

Candidates must achieve an average of at least 1 percent of support in three national presidential polls before Sept. 10 to be included in the Sept. 16 debate at the Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.

The top 10 contenders who made it into the first GOP debate last week on Fox News — Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, John Kasich — have all been invited, as well as six of the seven candidates who participated in the earlier debate: Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham and George Pataki. Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore has not yet been invited.

The CNN event will be broken into two back-to-back debates with two groups of candidates. CNN's Jake Tapper will moderate both debate groups.

[Valin]

This will be a different debate joint press conference from the last one.

[Geee]

This will be a different debate joint press conference from the last one.

Guess Gilmore was last man out. I imagine that Perry will try to hang on until this debate to see if he have a good performance and pick up some following. I think this is the proper way to handle all of these candidates. Two debates, half and half. I like Jake Tapper also.

[Valin]

I'm hoping Rick is able to stay in, I like him.

 

About the joint pressers, I think the campaigns put to much emphasis on them. Understandable, as the 20 second sound bytes that come out of them are the only time most people pay any attention to the primaries. That don't mean I have to like it.

 

I think this is the last cycle where these giant pressers really matter. Social Media/You Tube are starting to take over.

[clearvision]

I don't know how we change things now as a country, but if you have never contributed .01 dollar (1 penny) to the government in income tax, in your life, then we need to consider prorating the vote. We are going to fail because the takers (especially those who NEVER contributed a penny) have as much say as those that do.

[Valin]

Jake Tapper On Debate Prep And The Purpose Of Debates
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 | posted by Hugh Hewitt

 

I began the show with Jake Tapper who will be moderating the first CNN debate in which I am asking questions at the Reagan Library on September 16:

 

Audio

 

(Snip)

 

HH: Now Jake Tapper, Hilary was talking about Trump, but she pivoted out and drove off the highway and made a right turn so that she can run over Marco Rubio. What’s that tell you?

 

JT: Well, there’s two things. I find it furious that Hilary Clinton would think that it’s the role of the press to take a position on what Marco Rubio had to say about his views on abortion. I mean, Marco Rubio has his views that he does not believe in abortion even in cases of rape and incest. But as a minority view in this country, but it is a view. I don’t why the media should find it outrageous. Certainly we should report on it, but it’s a political and religious and spiritual and moral position. It’s not something for us to be outraged about. So that’s one. Two, you know, for a long time, Democrats have said that Marco Rubio – at least on paper – seemed like the most troubling candidate in terms of who could beat Hilary. He is young and attractive. He’s Latino. He comes from a battleground state. He is a great speaker. Very eloquent. And an impressive guy when you know him. So the fact that she would single him [out] there – as opposed to say, Mike Huckabee, who has the same position and in some polls is actually above Marco Rubio. But Hilary Clinton probably doesn’t perceive him as much of a threat. But, you know, I think that’s pretty telling.

 

HH: It is pretty telling. Here is something that Jake Tapper said yesterday after our brunch on Sunday which I found very useful for people to hear. Jake said it on his show yesterday.

 

 

JT: Here are some of the issues. Just some of the ones that Republicans would like the media and political worlds and voters to be discussing today. Democrats in Congress coming out against President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. The head of the Iranian Quds forces traveling to Russia, violating a UN embargo. The cyber attack on the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, perhaps conducted by Russia. Lingering questions about why Hilary Clinton used the private email server and why she deleted emails from it. The Black Lives Matters protesters who interrupted socialist senator Sander’s well-attended rally in Seattle over the weekend. Now, what the media and political worlds and voters are discussing instead – whether or not Donald Trump was insinuating that a female Fox News anchor was aggressive in her debate questions last week because she was menstruating.

 

 

HH: Jake Tapper, you summed up nicely the problem we face here. We need to be fair next month, but we also have to be of the news and we also have to be about the Republican primary voter. It’s tricky.

[Draggingtree]

And Now for Something Completely Different

Brian Watt August 19, 2015 23 COMMENTS

 

I think we all need this:

https://ricochet.com/and-now-for-something-completely-different/