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Forget Lincoln-Douglass. At these prices, you’d expect someone to at least throw a punch.
If you want to see Herman Cain debate Newt Gingrich Nov. 5th at The Woodlands Resort north of Houston, without the filter of the “lamestream media” and about the "most pressing issues facing America today," all you’ll have to fork over is $200 -- and that’s for the cheap seats.
That and a $5.99 processing fee gets you “some good ole apple pie” and a chance to “sit and enjoy the debate.”
For a cool $500, you get a “Patron Ticket - prime seating and Nite Cap party after the Debate. 8:30pm til 10pm: Mingle with the candidates and enjoy some drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Seating will be based on order of receipt of reservations.”
Or you could really step it up -- to the $1,000 level, which “includes best seating in the house for the debate and attend the Nite Cap Party in the Lakeside Room at The Woodlands Resort and have a professional picture take [sic] with the candidates.”
There is a student discount. Students get in for $150, but, unfortunately, that promo's no longer available. That sales period has “ended.”
So where’s all this money going?
To the Texas Tea Party Patriots PAC, which bills the event as:
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate was then...
The Cain-Gingrich Debate is NOW!!!
It also issues this disclaimer:
“Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation and name of employer of individuals whose total contributions exceed $200 in an election cycle.”
So, if you go, it's also a federal political contribution.
By the way, at those prices, a cash bar is available. But, hey, don't worry, the group says there will be "Plenty of All American Apple Pie, Coffee and of course Tea!"
No word if this main event will also be available on Pay-Per-View.
(Hat tip: Wall Street Journal and The Woodlands Villager.)
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HA!
The Pizza King vs. The King of Bling!
I wouldn't watch it if it was FREE!
One idiot talking over another is not my idea of entertainment!
If it was Political Deathmatch,...well then MAYBE I'd pay something. I'd at least spring for the pizzas!
What does it matter anyway? They're two 'also-rans' that will never get the nomination much less the presidency.
They couldn't pay me. Watching Beavis and Butthead reruns would be about the same thing.
I'll spring for copious amounts of alcohol GF!
It's the ONLY way it would make that 'steaming hot mess' watchable!
*popcorn*?
See #3 below!!!
Ahh.. you guys are answering my question from last night....lol Knew something was up! Thanks for that expensive news!
LOL! Great minds and all!
Cheers!
Now envision, Calista in a bikini doing some fancy pageant walking while holding up the score cards in between rounds!
Feisty--it staggers the imagination!
I don't pay much attention to the polls, but Newt has actually been steadily climbing. It's been a slow climb, but in a debate he will destroy Cain, the current front-runner. Gingrich cannot lose.
For those who have been following this spectacle, we know Cain doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of securing the Republican nomination. Cain the carney barker will sell his books, make speeches, and feather his nest. He may not understand the government treasury, but he certainly understands how to fatten his personal treasury.
Cain wins even when he loses. Herman Cain, the flavor of the weak.....minded.
exactly!!!
I would only pay if they have a contest about who can eat more hot dogs or pizzas. If they open their mouths to talk, they will have to pay me to listen.
What would I pay? Nothing.
I wouldn't walk across the street to listen to either of them. However, things are looking up for Herman Cain. He said he is now a foreign policy expert, according to Think Progress. Want to know how he got there?
CAIN: Do you think I’m dumb enough not to study up on those issues? I’ve been studying up on these issues for months. I can now explain right of return to any reporter better than they understand right of return. Because, you know, you get caught off guard, you go to school and you learn. So I challenge them to try to explain it to me. Secondly, I have been consulting with former ambassadors, former national security advisers, I’ve been consulting with a number of experts to get up to speed on some of the situations we have around the world. So I challenge anybody who says I wouldn’t know how to address foreign policy.
Get that? He said he's been studying up on these issues for months. LoL.
Also, there is this:
Among the things Cain is doing to study up on national security is read a “one-page briefing from his chief foreign policy adviser on news from around the world” every day, the Daily Caller reports...
Perfect candidate for today's Republican Party. Herman Cain.
Arrogant. Uninformed. Mean-spirited. The Koch Bros. must be proud. But he could hold his own against Newt on foreign policy issues for sure. Newt is really "out there" when he starts talking foreign policy. A real nut case.
These are the people who want America to be the most powerful country in the world. It's kind of hard to be that when he have people like these Republican candidates running for the Presidency, as well as people who would vote for them.
Mitt doesn't like to be held accountable for his own words. Cain doesn't want anyone to speak to him, unless spoken to. Or something like that. He sounds like the Cabots & the Lodges of old.
Cain/Gingrich/Romney/Backmann/Santorum.
Hoooooooooooooooooly batman.
I'll watch! $10 for TV, $500 if I have to show up in person; cash, only--no checks.
What would you do for a Klondike bar?!
These two have partnered up to merchandise themselves, and anyone who buys into it is an even bigger idiot than Gingrich and Cain are.
If two right-wing zealots debate in a Tea Party vacuum, does the debate really happen? Or something like that. The very existence of this endeavor should prove to all of us where the campaigns of these two extreme individuals are headed. Cain and Gingrich are more interested in selling themselves and making big bucks on the side rather than making a serious bid for the very serious position of president. Whether it is these two engaging in sideshows, or Rick Perry believing the presidency is so humorous as to "poke fun," the GOP has shown a startling lack of seriousness this campaign season. http://www.sunstateactivist.org
How much do I have to pay for the "Tequila Patron Ticket"? That's the one where I get drinks before the debate.
(Maybe if I'm crocked they'll make more sense.)
Da Noid you little rabble rouser! ; )
Ummmm, NOTHING! But for the "teabaggers" to compare those two mental midgets to Lincoln or Douglas is so appalling and insulting that it deserves nothing but contempt.
Thanks. But No Thanks.
newday--you are right on the money! Count me out too!
Wow, I can see why they call you guys left wing loons. Listen to yourselves.
"Moonbats"...we're called "moonbats"...say it with me..."MOON-BATS"!
PS - It's not our fault if you don't find the humor in this proposed debate.
Sorry, I thought only Feisty was called a "Moonbat".
Actually I'm half moonbat & half Soro's Monkey! ;oP
Keep it straight... will ya?
I'll see your half moonbat & half Soro's Monkey and just call you Feisty Skankhead. How's that, something we can all agree on!
That would be MS. Feisty Skankhead to you...
You should know the rules by now! ;o)
I'm libtarded! I got dain bramage from being kicked in the head by a unicorn.
Forrest:
[I'm libtarded! I got dain bramage from being kicked in the head by a unicorn.]
A unicorn? They said you slipped on an ACORN and cracked your melon.
He can only remember the 'corny' part of the punchline,...lol
how desperate are these guys for money? It reminds me of Ryan and cantor charging constituents to ask them questions at a town hall meeting...
Personally they could not pay me to attend. Newt is nothing but a hater from the 90's and can't say anything but Get Obama and whine about debate commentators trying to get the GOTP bunch to actually debate each other.
Cain is one of those cocky wanna bees that seems to actually believe that running for president is like being president...
Newt is running for VP and cain is selling books! This is insulting to tout this as a Lincoln Douglas debate anything. Shame on the Tea Party idiots. I wonder if any one of them could tell us what those debates were about and what Lincolns stand was?
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Aww man! The Democrats should pay for the venue, make it free to the public and then use clips in the re-elect Obama ads! Something tells me the performance would be priceless! "This is why we are asking you to re-elect President Obama. Obama/Biden 2012"
It's entertainment -- some people would pay that amount of money to see a Broadway play or to attend a professional sports event or music concert, and some will pay to see a successful retired executive and motivational speaker debate a not-as-successful former politician and college professor. The question is, do they get a share of the gate receipts? or is ALL the money really going to the Texas tea party group?
Rather would like to see obama partake in the debate with the top frontrunners. They have fantasy football, why not fantasy debates? Then we could all see the fantasy land that obama thinks he lives in.
I would love to see Mr. Gingrich and Obama in a debate. Everyone knows Obama wouldn't have a chance since Obama still doesn't have a clue what to say if the teleprompters aren't telling him. He is still in campaign mode after almost three years in office.
Mr. Gingrich is the only candidate with the experience, knowledge, ideas and plans on how to get our country back on track. He would show the country what a phony fraud Obama really is.
Mr. Newt Gingrich - 2012 for president.
Is there Jello involved?
and can we tag team Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann into the mix?
That is flat out sad and pathetic.
Their junkie arses sit on those stages debate after debate, decrying out desperate of shape this Country is in from every conceivable angle...domestic, foreign, energy, blah, blah, blah
..and yet while acting as though the US is being shipped to the Communist Planet that the President left 40+ years ago, this is the best crap 2 of the leading GOP candidates can come up with?!!?
WTF do these people think this stuff is? They are (allegedly) running for President of the Free World for goodness sake.
Crap like this makes me want to friggin hurl (more than I already do after watching each of the ridiculous specticles that have been the GOP debates), that is. Please GOP supporters, please...someone please point out the "leadership" in this event that you claim is so absent in the President?
It doesn't seem any worse than selling a chance on dinner tickets(with the President tonight) for $5 and later reduced to $3. The winners were two teachers, l Postal worker and l small business owner. They are being flown in so I assume they made a lot on the raffle.
They'd have to pay me. Now I have an elementary school history teacher friend, who I'd pay a good bit to see take them both on. Simultaneously!
What is the saying---a fool and his money are soon parted?
The question should be...
How much would you have to be paid to watch a Gingrich\Cain debate?
I don`t have the money, but I have an old pair of jeans and a sweatshirt.....nah, wouldn`t fit either one of them.
I think I would rather poke my eyes out. The poor republicans trying so hard and the just can't win. They sure do know how to crash world markets, and are pretty good at hate mongering.
A perfect setting for two entirely commercial candidates.
I'm really enjoying this Cain campaign. Never saw a convention he couldn't ignore, lol. Sure, why not - a fundraiser/debate. It's just great stuff.
I wonder if any of the other candidates have been looking at their more traditional campaign teams and asking, "for the money I'm paying you guys, why can't you come up with some new ideas like this?"
With whose money?
Not mine
Now elmo and cookie monster , that would be a debate and more realistic. I don't think the Sesame Street contract allows them to lie.
If half you folks had worked as hard as Herman Cain has in he's life, you would have a lot more respect for him. Just keep it in mind that the group between 16 and 60 are the people that are going to be paying back the National debt money. I my self worked all my life and still working at 75. What most of you folks do here is mouth off about one good hard working man. You sound like Obuma supporters. Good Luck
There's no paying back the debt, except maybe with intentionally devalued dollars. Either that, or we'll scrap the currency and start over. Just talking reality here. There's absolutely no way we'll pay off this monster in any other manner.
Nothing, I'm tired of Republican rhetoric, same ole, same ole, "get rid of govt. it's evil" give the money back to the individual they can do it better themselves". I'm on a HOA board, NO THEY DONT the individual is self centered and could care less about their neighbor. Cut taxes! cut taxes!!but guess who bitches first when pot holes are not patched, good and services are cut? Republicans! especially if their on the recipient end of a cut. Gingrich is a master on Republican rhetoricism. Oh, yes, "we're the fiscally responsible party" how come Reagan and Bush ran big debts, how come we fought 2 wars and had Bush tax cuts at the same time, going on 10 years! Never in American history of conflict have we massively ran up that kind of expense and had tax cuts! Rhetoric!! Go watch college football, you won't get brainwashed, unless your a Buckeye fan.
They would have to pay me to watch.
Really? You only watch the guys you agree with?
Of course, just like you!