Oct 8, 2012 – The next debate is the town hall style debate. … Aaron: Clearly this debate made its mark. … Maybe The View wasn’t such great debate prep after all.…

Jan 9, 2012 – Let us set aside for a moment the many crazy things that Ron Paul says and the ways in which they might damage the GOP brand. … I mean, I’m not thrilled to have the guy up there on national television representing the GOP in any form or fashion, but on the merits … presidential nomination.…

Jan 9, 2012 – The Biggest Mistake of the Worst Debate 6. … The Biggest Mistake of the Worst Debate Let’s face it: the ABC News New Hampshire debate was the worst debate of the entire election … Romney was able to sit pretty throughout the entire debate, except for one monologue from Santorum at the end of the debate.…

Jan 8, 2012 – As Politico noted on Sunday, GOP Chairman Reince Priebus made an attempt to put some controls around the debate schedule. … We need to have some order in our debate process.” … Virtually every major media outlet: CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, Bloomberg, C-SPAN – have all sponsored and/or co-sponsored a GOP debate…

Mar 19, 2013 – Reince Preibus, chairman of the RNC, ordered up the autopsy to try to find a way forward for the GOP without repeating many of the … Candidates like Josh Mandel were model candidates for the GOP who ran great races, but still lost. … Many Republicans wondered why the GOP would ever allow NBC to host a debate, let alone with the Politico, given the biases involved.Additionally…

Mar 28, 2013 – In the 1996 GOP Presidential primary I persuaded my parents to cast a protest vote for Pat Buchanan, as I felt Bob Dole was too liberal … Three reasons: The debate over SSM is a divisive political issue that is tearing this country apart culturally and politically, while … This whole debate begs the question, Why does the government have an overriding interest in my personal contract to love and care for…

Jul 17, 2013 – But the vehemence directed at Trende’s number-crunching suggests a Democratic establishment that fears honest debate intruding in its … and demographic determinism, even if the GOP does defeat the current iteration of “comprehensive immigration reform.” … Stripping away the rhetorical overkill (“GOP phone home!…

Jul 27, 2013 – for the Republicans is for the same reason why it has for the Democrats: the 2014 election cycle will only have an effect on the GOP … For better or for worse, 2015 will be giving us a bunch of viable Presidential candidates who will being able to claim “successful … governor” on their resumes… including at least least two candidates that certain factions in the GOP will positively loathe.…

Aug 6, 2013 – We do not yet know who the Republican presidential nominee will be in 2016. … If you can’t win an exchange with a heckler, how are you going to win one with a presidential candidate? … Nobody ever had their campaign sunk by skipping a primary debate.…

Aug 5, 2013 – The head of the Republican Party threatened Monday to cut out CNN and NBC from the GOP presidential primary debates if the networks … Moe Lane (crosspost) PS: You may safely assume that I – and a lot of my compatriots – will not be unhappy to see our 2016 debate…

Aug 15, 2013 – One of the most popular leaders of the opposition, much-touted as a leading presidential candidate for 2016, goes on the air to inform … It’s like a boxing match where the GOP gives itself a black eye before the first bell is rung.  … Republicans accept leftist rules of engagement without quarrel, obediently sidelining the narratives that would change the terms of debate…

May 18, 2022 – That is how it’s done, and it’s not something Joe Biden would be able to effectively counter should the issue come up in a presidential … debate between the two in 2024 (assuming DeSantis runs). … But that’s unlikely to happen, which will mean more GOP victories in future elections at the state and local levels that will have…

Aug 7, 2015 – There are a very few questions that have any place in a presidential debate. … TRUMP: Why not use this first Republican presidential debate to share your proof [IRT illegal immigrants and crime] with the American … BUSH:  [A] story appeared today quoting an anonymous GOP donor who said you called Mr.…

Aug 7, 2015 – Last night’s GOP presidential debates were, in Churchill’s phrase, not the end or the beginning of the end, but the end of the … First, a few words on the debate itself. … That debate drew 10.7 million viewers.…

Aug 7, 2015 – Here at the Redstate Gathering, we’re going to be hearing from most of the Republican Presidential candidates. … Then he had a meek performance in a debate, seeming to shy away from Mitt Romney, and he was done. … I think many of us hope she’ll be in the ‘main debate’ next time.…

Aug 4, 2015 – On Monday evening, GOP front-runner Trump officially blessed a strategy that would include a rider that defunds Planned Parenthood … Like it or not, everyone in the GOP is reacting to what Trump does right now. … He is absolutely and without a doubt driving the debate on all its terms.…

Aug 17, 2015 – His polling fell after the first debate, but there are limited debates and the second one is still a month away. … Usually it is the GOP who want a coronation. … This time, a quarter of the GOP has fallen head over heels in love with the flamboyant Donald Trump while Democrats have rushed to…

Aug 15, 2015 – Via that arbiter of GOP presidential choices, the New York Times, John Kasich’s Appeal to Moderates Gains Traction in New Hampshire … Because the New Hampshire GOP electorate doesn’t look like the GOP electorate in virtually any other state: Mr. … For instance, when Megyn Kelly wasn’t preening during the GOP debate, she took the time to ask Kasich this question: “if you had a…

Aug 11, 2015 – Donald Trump presents a threat – we can debate how big a threat, but a threat – to the conservative movement and the Republican … primaries without running a third-party campaign, and brings his current supporters into the fold to not only support the Republican presidential … only–the #Jebbernaut. https://t.co/WRzHe1kWen — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) July 8, 2015 Hilarious that pundits are demanding GOP…

Aug 26, 2015 – I am pretty much with most of the GOP electorate. I like Florida [mc_name name=’Sen. … would probably win rave reviews at a debate festival, but when you are talking to working men and women who are worried about their … We’ve seen two presidential campaigns run by happy losers using happy talk.…

Aug 25, 2015 – or interest in the details), he said, in effect, “Well, you know, I could, I make $500 million a month, and then at some point the GOP … He said “According to literally every poll I won that debate. … Each thing he says is so bizarre, or ill informed, or demonstrably false, or un presidential in tone or character, that it becomes…

Aug 25, 2015 – Probably, we are past the point where the GOP Presidential candidate can have a reasonable chance of outright winning the Hispanic … Hispanics have mostly positive-to-neutral attitudes towards the GOP candidates – ranging from +11 (Bush) to -7 (Cruz). … elections (although to what extent remains a topic of hot debate).…

Aug 24, 2015 – I know and like many of the Presidential candidates for the GOP. … His 2012 debate performance lingers on too. … I am so happy for a number of the Presidential prospects this time.…

Sep 6, 2015 – Now, registered as an independent, he leads the Republican 2016 presidential field. … He criticized presidential candidate Steve Forbes for favoring a flat tax, which Trump thought unfair to the poor. … Yes, the Establishment GOP is awful. We should have supported Alison Grimes in the general election, just to be rid of Mitch. …

Sep 2, 2015 – The Republican presidential primary has both a blessing and a curse: a staggeringly deep field of candidates, many of them talented … In past presidential contests, some early entrants dropped out well before the voting started. … And Graham’s not even on the first debate stage. Two: Do I have the resources to keep going?…