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Subscribe to RSSSo far during the GOP presidential contest, there have been 19 debates. And next week's -- in Arizona -- will be No. 20.
But it looks like there won't be No. 21.
First, the Romney campaign today said its candidate wouldn't be attending a March 1 debate in Georgia sponsored by CNN. The reason: Mitt Romney wants to use his time campaigning in the Super Tuesday states, scheduled for March 6.
"Gov. Romney will be spending a lot of time campaigning in Georgia and Ohio ahead of Super Tuesday," said spokeswoman Andrea Saul. "With eight other states voting on March 6, we will be campaigning in other parts of the country and unable to schedule the CNN Georgia debate."
In response, Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond fired off this tweet: "@MittRomney spits in Georgia's face and cancels Atlanta debate appearence."
He added, "If @MittRomney won't stand up and debate his GOP competitors how will he face President Obama?"
But the Paul campaign also said it was NOT participating. And the Santorum camp tells NBC News that they haven't confirmed with CNN their participation, either.
And now comes the word, via CNN, that it's pulling the plug on the debate. "Without full participation of all four candidates, CNN will not move forward with the Super Tuesday debate," CNN said in a statement. "However, next week, CNN and the Arizona Republican Party will host all four leading contenders for the GOP nomination. That debate will be held in Mesa, Arizona on February 22 and will be moderated by CNN's John King."
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Mitt won't attend the debate because they won't let him sing "America the Beautiful". Maybe CNN will re-run highlights from past debates, like the $10,000 bet.
Me thinks Willard is worried he won't be able to clean all the egg off his face after he gets shellacked in Michigan!
Michigan voters just aren't feeling the love for their 'home boy'! lol
PS: Congrats on being #1 Steeler Fan! ;o)
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maybe we can see Obama clapping and cheering at one of the Chicago church services he attended for 20 years
Feisty---imagine if John King asked Mitt an "electability" question? Glad to hold down the top spot for you.
Dennis---thanks for posting that link---it is a cute site. People are so clever. What ever possessed Romney to share that story is beyond me.
I hate to support Gingrich on anything, but what a coward Romney is! Romney knows he won't do well in the south compared to Gingrich (or Santorum), and knows Gingrich wants to prove himself again in debating. Romney, leading from behind (you're off the hook this time Santorum--ha).
Romney knows that the debates haven't helped his candidacy...quite the opposite. The more he puts his expensive- leather-shod foot in his mouth on the debate stage, the worse it gets for him.
He wasn't going to win Georgia anyway.
I sort of dont blame them, I can just imagine how tired all of them are. Running for President would be a giant pain in the rear. Half the country trying to tear you down, the other half trying to prop you up. Cant we just have a lottery?
While Romney may have won the debates over his Republican competition, he's done nothing but hurt himself if he makes it to the General.
Romney's only losing voters, not gaining any at this point.
Obama / Biden 2012
I am a bit surprised that Newt's head didn't explode. Debates are his "thing" (maybe his only thing) and this one in Georgia would have to have been one of his best opportunities to bluster and wax all hysterical-like in front of a sympathetic audience. I bet he is one p'd off hombre!
Feisty! Thought you would be busy heading the Obama Truth comission! You know! Searching for the transparancy that was promised. Oh and trying to figure out how that pesky lobbyist got into the white house! And of course the hiring of a tax evader left a little bit to be desired!
American Girl - this is all a dog and pony show for the less informed. Romneycare will be reluctantly given the Republican flag. He will go down in a decisive loss against the President, and we should not have to see Willard's two faces anymore.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, say its not so.
unsustainable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take that Newter! I ain't playing opening act for you no more, or you either Santimonium. You want your mug on TV, pay for it just like I do. Lucky for me, I can pay for a lot more than you can.
The Republican frontrunners are afraid to take on Newt and afraid to go on national television and defend the absurdities that have become the central core of the Republican Party's message. The conservative wing of the GOP has made issues such as birth control and women's rights a central theme of this campaign, taking on a subject widely seen by most Americans as uncontroversial and totally in the mainstream. They are deathly afraid to stand up and defend this archaic position.
Now that the economic indicators are ticking up (no thanks to Republican obstructionism) they have no way to stir up the base except to blow their dog whistle on social issues. I hope they keep tacking to the right, all their way to the edge of the flat Earth.
Those must be some powerful hallucinogenics your on, mattpfl!!
I'm getting bored with these debates. I know what wee need to do to spice things up, a real contest. Since these guys are "running for office", how about a 'Running Man' style contest? Drop them in an urban wasteland landscape, and they have to find the podiums and give a speech to unlock weapons and the next part of their quest. Of course, there will be a time limit and they will be hunted down by well-armed PAC representatives.
May the best man win...
and make them do things like rub sticks together to make a fire, to eat the fish they have to catch, and sleep in a shack made of sticks. Like the survivor show, ha ha, stupid presidential candidates. I cant stand any of them.
Why is your headline "Romney pulls out" and not "All Republican candidates pull out and leave Gingrich throwing a tantrum in Georgia? The big cry baby.
Hahaha, Independent! Notice Rick Santorum was the only one that didn't 'pull out'. Must be his religious beliefs!
unsustainable
Do we really need to hear these scum bags on national tv ever again??? We already know where they all stand. They stand where ever some poor tax payer has to pay them to stand. BAH-HUMBUG!!! I dont care---it works well here too! I am so sick of the mud slinging, the lies, the deciet. Where do they really think they are going? To the white house? Get real, they dont stand a snowballs chance in he!! !!! LMAO! FOFL! LOL! Etc, etc, etc.
BWAAAK, BWAK, BWAK...
A chicken aint nothin' but a bird...
or maybe a mitten.
I have just a few questions I'd like answered by the canidates and to date I still do not have answers because these retarded debates lead by gottcha reporters are more intrested in boxer of briefs.
Why would Romney want to debate in Georgia? Georgia is just Southern South Carolina. He can just sit back and let Santorum and Gingrich fight it out for the pick em truck, bible holdin but not readin (hard to read with a 3rd grade edumacation), Klan rallyin vote. Hell, I did not even know Newt was still in the race. When you cannot even beat out the old senile grandpa in the corner in some primaries/caucuses, you really need to just go way. Oh, but then there is all the Sheldon Adelson money you have to spend. How fitting that your chief SuperPac guy is being investigated by 3 different federal agencies.
Everybody from the left knows why Mr. Romney is not going to debate then, by that time he'll need to be running a fulltime dedicated rough and tumble dirty political airwar on his compatriots in the Republican field and needs to give himself enough to do it and doesn't need to be questioned about it. Good move on his part because he's got the money to win this election.
I should say primary not election because he's going to wiped out by the President so don't want to get any false impression that I'm supporting him.
Another silly comment about Obama winning another term. Obama is bring us back in time. He can go by himself and take his friends with him. The majority of us will stay here and live in comfort and not misery as we are now. But we will send you the bills to pay for.
Romney is doing what he needs to do. He's feeling a bit desperate so he has to go do some glad-handing and back-slapping to make sure he beats Santorum. Mittens has spent three times the money Santorum has and yet he is still behind in the polls. Weird, apparently folks there are smarter then we thought, thats good.
Santorum is just wasting his time and splitting the vote, his extreme views, lack of mainstream support, lack of big money, his hard-line adherence to catholic catechism is not something that works good to make you president.
Ron and Newt who?
Romney is not desperate he, like many, are just tired as hell of these debates. They should limit the damn things. We all know what they stand for with theirspeeches and media questioning. After so mnay of these things they all seem to be about the same thing over and over again. Something like Obama and Hillary that went down to the wire. I sure wish the Democrats would voted for instead of Obama. Now that was a very bad decision on the part of the Democratic Party.
Let's see, Romney has participated in 19 debates and people are calling him a coward? Seriously? Do you think Obama would ever agree to 19+ debates? Now there's a REAL coward.
As for the response from Angry Newt's campaign, it figures they'd be nasty as always. I guess by their standards Gingrich spit in Virginia's face because he was too lazy to get on the ballot for his home state.
At least Santorum and Paul are being stand-up guys.
My name is TR Rose II, not ESOR TR! The Mexican Republican corporate puppet has an excuse for everything! Now, he doesn't want to debate again! THAT'S STRANGE FOR A MAN THAT SAYS HE WANTS TO BE OUR LEADER! WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA RAN FOR PRESIDENT, HE WELCOMED DEBATES WITH OR WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER!! Hey MEX, TALK TO OUR PRESIDENT, MAYBE HE'LL LOAN YOU A TELEPROMPTER! Your a true jerk, the only thing you have done is bad-mouthed Obama when it was your OWN REPUBLICAN PARTY'S doing that created our economic crisis which cost millions of Americans their jobs, their foreclosed homes, 401K's, pensions and to top it all off, we have been forced to bail out the same corporate theives that caused this mess!
Yeah, like Democrats didn't have anything to do with forcing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to loan money to losers with a lousy credit history. Pleeeze. You want to blame someone for the mess we're in, blame Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Their fingerprints are all over this crisis and their messiah has added to the problem.
Obama likes to talk about the handful of jobs he's "saved or created". I'd like to hear him talk about the millions of jobs he's destroyed. He's squashed 10 times as many potential new jobs with his anti-business policies. More people unemployed and for a longer period of time than even the Depression. That's quite the record. Only fools would vote for Obama for a second term.
Wow getting nasty late in the day. That's a bad thing to do before going to sleep at night. The Republicans will do OK and a lot better than Obama. Obama has thrown us to the wolves. Wake sleeping beauty and see what you have been missing.
Democrats should have someone with more knowledge about politics explain whats going on in the country with Obama at the helm......reminds me of Nero ........while Rome burnt.....
No worries, we don't watch FOX!
independent thinking atheist===It might not matter to you but Nero blamed all of his problems on Christians. We have gotten closer to the pass then most realize.
So there won't be a debate and Mitt won't speak. Should be the high point of his campaign!
Do you think he really spit in their face? Gee. That's not polite. Gingrich is so much more a gentleman. If I remember correctly, he invested very heavily in some of the aspirin companies. He's so smart.
Mr. Romney, Michigan is seeing through your continued superfluous words, rambling on about nothing and everything. How much you love your state (which one) and ten cent warm fuzzies about what a good guy you are and your tough stance with the Republican right. Wrong. The entire United States is now aware what a goof ball you are and lack of real world ideas to help the country.
Lest you forget, that is what this president thing is all about, helping the country with "your" ideas not just bashing the current President and your competitors. You have finally reached your level of incompetence even with all the money you have in off shore accounts. You are not a true representative of the U.S. or your church that you say you represent.
Can you be a man and diplomatically close the door and go to one of your off shore islands with your "family" and the multi millions you gave them. Your done sir.
The American Public is keenly aware of our present problems, jobs, economy, and more. We are looking at BOTH the Republicans and Democrats ideas and suggestions and all we hear is bashing, lies, from the Republicans. I was a Republican and have no reason to vote Republican with the Rush Limbaugh mentality that now exist presently with many of the hard (dull) right The President is not perfect, but he is trying, and that is all a person can do. He is doing the job with credibility and sticking to the issues, the Republicans should do the same.
CNN has just one agenda...assuring that Obama is re-elected...just watch its spin on things...
No wonder they are no longer #1....
So, when does Willard get the bad news that he lost his 'home' state of Michigan? Not any of his other home states. That one.