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With the wheels coming off the GOP debate he is supposed to host, Donald Trump admitted Friday that he’s looking into canceling the sparsely-attended forum.
But Trump, in a typical display of chutzpah, said there’s another reason why he might pull the plug - he still may run for President.
“If the Republican, in my opinion, is not the right candidate [to defeat President Obama\],” Trump declared, “I am unwilling to give up my right to run as an independent candidate.”
Donald Trump looks into canceling GOP debate he's set to host (just as Sarah endorsed it, lol)
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He also claimed that several GOP candidates told him they’d only do the December 27 debate if Trump vowed to not launch a late bid for the White House once “The Apprentice” was off the air.
Trump refused.
“I must leave all of my options open,” the flamboyant real estate magnate said in a statement released Friday, “because above all else, we must make America great again!
Ah, Donny's giving the excuse why all but Gingrich and Santorum refused to the debate.....otherwise they all would have come...they just didn't his competition....ROTFL.
Their decision to skip the event has damaged Trump’s reputation as a GOP kingmaker - and it was Michele Bachmann’s refusal that appeared to wound The Donald most of all.
“She came up to see me four times,” Trump said. “She would call me and ask me for advice. She said if she wins, she would like to think about me for the Vice Presidency.”
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I figured they'd all jump back in the boat after the 1/2 gov. gave her blessing to the "debate".
- 29 votes
Well, since Trump is considering getting back in the race, why doesn't he just debate himself for an hour? Or maybe he could debate his hand, Señor Wences-style.
I can see the opening graphics now. "What if Donald Trump threw a debate and nobody came?...Hosted by...Donald Trump!"
- 33 votes
Trump's one of those that can't admit they got screwed no matter what.
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Does anyone believe Trump? Anyone?
Charlie Sheen is more stable than this joker.
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Not that I like / dislike or endorse Trump....I think the GOP is afraid of him asking real questions that could and or would really embarrass and or derail most if not all the candidates campaigns right off their tracks.....
Charlie Sheen is more stable than this joker.
Rofl........good one.... :)
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It's looking more and more like they're stuck with Mitt even though they hate him.
- 13 votes
Donald Trump is the "Great Pretender", but I guess the GOP want to play at getting serious now. Too bad the the GOP front runner was rubbing all over The Donald saying how exceptional he was.
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OMG, does anyone reading this get the feeling that it's a new chapter from Bizarro World? The saddest part is that no one could make this up--even in substance-induced stupor--and the Rethuglicons are doing with a combination of natural stupidity and pure hubris.
Unbelievable....
- 22 votes
Charlie Sheen is more stable than this joker.
Now he'd be an interesting debate moderator. Not very coherant but interesting. ;-)
- 13 votes
Well, with his little debate going down in flames, The Donald had to come up with something to keep himself relevant (if that's possible) - hence the announcement about running (sigh...again).
Really, someone needs many, many years of therapy!
- 7 votes
Not that I like / dislike or endorse Trump....I think the GOP is afraid of him asking real questions
Like where is Obama's birth certificate? I doubt it. Trump's pitiful excuse for an intellect is not even up to the sad level of the rest of the GOP's loser candidates.
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This is too funny, Only Newt and Santorum were going to attend.
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Poor old Donald, he's a bit like Sarah Palin in her attempt to keep the media focused upon her. It didn't pan out, now it's Donald's turn. Funny how the loser never realize he/she has lost and just keeps hammering away like everything is they way they think it is.
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If the Republican, in my opinion, is not the right candidate [to defeat President Obama\],” Trump declared, “I am unwilling to give up my right to run as an independent candidate.”
Is that supposed to be good news? Oh Please! Everybody things that he is a clown. I guess he enjoys a good kick in the butt. Obama already kicked his butt with the "birthing"question. If he wants more, let him have it.....
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Yeppers.....now that his chance of being a 'real' Kingmaker has been dashed, and his ego stumped into a pulp, Trump wants to pick up his debate and go home. I mean, what kind of contest could you hope for with just Gingrich the Great Adulterer, and Santorum the More than Stupid, as the only two candidates to debate world affairs and the real needs of the American people.
What a shame. And this right after his lap dog Palin endorsed it too!
I am wondering at this late date he can cancel it, it's just a couple of weeks away. But, I am sure Trump has enough money to buy off Newsmax. They obviously work cheap.
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Election results:
Official republican candidate Mitt Romney 10%
Official libertarian/anarchist candidate Ron Paul 10%
Official court jester Hairpiece 5%
And 2nd term winner Obama 75%
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Well, since Trump is considering getting back in the race, why doesn't he just debate himself for an hour?
Or he and Newt could debate which pick-up lines work best.
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Tink -
I am wondering at this late date he can cancel it, it's just a couple of weeks away.
I can imagine a chorus line of The Rockettes with Newt on one end having a blast and Santorum, arms crossed, evil eye stare, on the other with The Donald in a party hat playing a kazoo.
Now that's entertainment!!!
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I can imagine a chorus line of The Rockettes with Newt on one end having a blast and Santorum, arms crossed, evil eye stare, on the other with The Donald in a party hat playing a kazoo.
The visual is hysterical. ROTFL
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Well, since Trump is considering getting back in the race, why doesn't he just debate himself for an hour?
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours ~Benjamin Disraeli.
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Santorum, arms crossed, evil eye stare,
Did they make him wear the fishnet stockings and garter belts?
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Did they make him wear the fishnet stockings and garter belts?
No, he did that willingly. He pitched a hissy when they said he had to wear the suit!
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Donald Trump looks into canceling GOP debate he's set to host (just as Sarah endorsed it, lol)
He can blame Sarah for it, but he knows the people don't want to see his tired and fugly azz at the debates. He has no business to be hosting or asking any question, he's using politics to promote himself and his crappy shows.
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Im confused
wasnt Donald just whining a few days ago about how he hasnt been invited to the White House, and now he back to the "Im gonna run cause someone has to be beat Obama"
how the hell did someone that dumb get wealthy?
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#1.12- Being fired is the thing that is ticking Trump off more than anything else.. " HOW DARE ANY OF THEM TELL ME NO!!!!" is Trumps point of view, but he forgot he is dealing with the party of "NO"!!!!!!!!!!..... It Appears Santorum and Gingrich will shake hands with the devil to become President....
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how the hell did someone that dumb get wealthy?
He started out with wealth, took bankruptcy when ever he owned money, and was fraudulent in business and a con....that's basically how he did it.
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"Humpty trumpty" needs to crawl back into his hole and put a cork in it before he loses what little (?) credibility he has left. Enough already. What a joke.
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Lebowsky - #1.23 - That would make for very good entertainment, and about as good as it would get with that group.
I picture all 3 dressed in clown suits. Trump strutting around the stage in over-sized baggy pants, imperiously waving a red-white and blue flag, with the very smug look on is face. Santorum kneeling on one side of the stage pounding his Bible like crazy, and Newt with a big red nose ambling aback and forth across the stage ogling all the women in the audience and drooling while making the sign of the cross.
At any rate, it should make for a very pathetic event.
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It really is easy to imagine them doing anything except, something serious!
Tonight's debate should be interesting, akin to a lobotomy.
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,” Trump said. “She would call me and ask me for advice. She said if she wins, she would like to think about me for the Vice Presidency.”
So it would be fair to say that he is responsible for all the ignorant things that she has said, that now identifies her as being an idiot, is due in-part for his adversarial roll in her campaign?
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#2 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 1:01 PM ESTThat's what happens when you ask The Donald for advise.
It hilarious....I wonder if Gingrich and Santorum feel really foolish now. Gingrich, as Nancy Pelosi is releasing the damning ethical evidence to remind everyone why he was put out of Congress, and Santorum who doesn't have a chance.
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#3 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 1:17 PM EST#3:It hilarious....I wonder if Gingrich and Santorum feel really foolish now. Gingrich, as Nancy Pelosi is releasing the damning ethical evidence to remind everyone why he was put out of Congress, and Santorum who doesn't have a chance.
I began to roll with laughter as I saw your headline. I can only laugh and say again, "what took them so effing long?"
Don't they see the writing on the wall or is their denial just that great? Oh Boy!
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LOL, he must have watched Karl Rove on GMA this morning....Karl said those Republicans willing to do this (right after Christmas) were foolish as Trump has said he'd might run as an Independent...
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#5 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:02 PM ESTObiviously The Donald forgot to look at the calendar. Scheduling a debate two days after Christmas. No one in their right mind would watch. Besides there's football.
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#7 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:15 PM EST#59:Obiviously The Donald forgot to look at the calendar. Scheduling a debate two days after Christmas. No one in their right mind would watch. Besides there's football.
Did anyone watch any of the "other ones"? Aren't they all the same? If you have heard one dictum, you have heard them all, haven't you?
In addition, what can they say that we don't already know anyway? They don't like or support the middle and working class; we already know that!
In addition, we should have the NBA playing by then.
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Did anyone watch any of the "other ones"?
All but two....I believe in knowing one's enemy being informed.
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Lebowsky,
The Trump debate was on the 27th....is there ANOTHER one on tonight?
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All but two....I believe in
knowing one's enemybeing informed
Rachel I seeded an article in which recently voting Republicans were asked to name one person running for the GOP nomination. 26% couldn't name anyone. High on the list from the others was Donald Trump, and some guessed Sarah Palin.
38% of the Democrats were unable, but well, WE won't be voting in the Republican primaries.
- 5 votes
Yes there is a debate tonight with a national television audience! :o) Oh Boy
An increasing rivalry between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney is expected to garner the most attention, even though four other White House contenders will also be on the stage. This will be the first debate since Gingrich passed Romney to take a big leads in Republican polling in Iowa and New Hampshire. Gringrich has not had to participate rigorously in previous debates because he was trailing badly in polling, but things are expected to change in tonight's debate from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
John Huntsman is not expected to to participate this evening.
The debate, to be televised by ABC, is scheduled for 7 p.m. Mountain Time - Boise Weekly
9:00 PM EST
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rescue- I can't vote in any primary! We don't have open primaries here and I'm a registered DTS (declined to state), so no GOP or DNC primary for me!
OPEN primaries for ALL!!!!
- 4 votes
You live along the coast, right? I live in the high desert of NM.
- 4 votes
As do I!
Regardless of our voter registration category, we are all Americans and we should all have the right to vote for the ones we really want to see represent us!
- 5 votes
There ya go Mr. Trump.
This is showing you just how truly important you really are to America.
Move along......you are nothing to see here.
K, baiii.
- 14 votes
#8 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:20 PM ESTMove along......you are nothing to see here.
Hey, Susi, you cockroached my favorite saying. Right on!
- 10 votes
LOL js.....great minds think alike, then!
I have to admit, I had never heard of "cockroached" before
:)
- 9 votes
Yep it's cool!
Hawaiian pidgin?
Lived there for 7 years and never heard it.
:)
- 8 votes
My questions with so many seeds about this so called debate:
1.) Where are all the right wing posters?
2.) Why are they NOT defending having Mr. Trump as the moderator of this so called debate?
3.) What do they think about having so many of their candidates dropping out of this debate?
4.) What do they think about the two remaining candidates who said that they would attend this debate?
5.) What do they think about having Ms. Palin endorse this debate?
Could it be that they are just a bit ashamed of the GOP for letting this reality TV host be the moderator of what is a very serious matter to the nation and turned it into a farce?
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#9 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:25 PM ESTThe Donald was probably thinking two things: one, he could make money putting on this circus, and two -- he's get lots of free positive press.
Wrong on both counts.
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Could it be that they are just a bit ashamed of the GOP for letting this reality TV host be the moderator of what is a very serious matter to the nation and turned it into a farce?
Well, it is embarrassing.
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The Donald was probably thinking two things: one, he could make money putting on this circus, and two -- he's get lots of free positive press.
Wrong on both counts.
His birther comments and his lack of credibility in the political arena (will he or won't he run for president) has with any hope tarnished the Trump brand and just maybe his reality show will take a hit in the ratings, now that would be icing on the cake and a sign that his 15 hours of fame is finally up.
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" tarnished the Trump brand and just maybe his reality show will take a hit in the ratings"
Shhhhhhh!!!!! That would mean that he would jump back into the political arena for another shot at the Presidency to try and raise his viewer ratings. Surely, there could be nothing about himself that would turn off viewers. It has to be the fault of those ungrateful, stupid candidates who spurned his invitation to join his 3 ring flea circus to allow Trump to make even bigger fools of themselves at their own expense.
Poor Bachmann....now she did it. She has no one of any 'real' intelligence to turn to now for expert help with her campaign. And.....with Trumps revelation that she has been seeking his advise for her campaign could explain why she has become even more inane and illogical of late, if that is possible.
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#9.4:Poor Bachmann....now she did it. She has no one of any 'real' intelligence to turn to now for expert help with her campaign. And.....with Trumps revelation that she has been seeking his advise for her campaign could explain why she has become even more inane and illogical of late, if that is possible.
Oh that is so funny! "Kill two (bad) birds with one stone".
- 7 votes
Trump's 'Great Ship of Fools Debate' sank faster than bin Laden's bullet-ridden carcass sank to the bottom of the Arabian Sea.
- 8 votes
#10 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:27 PM ESTTrump, just accept the fact that nobody cares about you. Denying it doesn't help, it just makes you look pathetic.
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#11 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:33 PM ESTHoist by your own petard, Trump!
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#12 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:39 PM EST"On his own petard", whatever a petard is. Do you know anyone who has a petard? I don't. I think it is some kind of spear. But I'm going to look it up on Wikki-Wikki-Stan-Stan.
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But I'm going to look it up on Wikki-Wikki-Stan-Stan
OMGosh...I'm laughing my bum off...hope the phone doesn't ring!!!
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Hey Suz: I'm back from Wikki-Wikki-Stan-Stan with an apology. The expression is properly "by his own petard." The reason is even funnier than suspected. It seems, according to
Wikki, that a petard is a bomb whose name comes from a middle French word for passing gas. So being hoisted by one's own petard means literally being blown upward by ones own bomb, or in Trump's case by his own flatulence. Of course the sarcasm is intended to mean that one is caught a problem of his own making.
Too good to be true!
- 9 votes
Yep, demo. By his own petard.
To be injured by the very thing you intended to cause injury by.
Basically, it blew up in his face.
- 10 votes
From the Urban dictionary:
petard
a device contrived to hurt another person; boobytrap; an explosive contraption used in warfare to blow in a door or form a breach in a wall.
to "hoist by one's own petard" means you have been hurt or caught by the very device that you intended to hurt someone else. This phrase is often used mockingly, as if to say that you stepped in your own mess.
That was one great laugh, Susi, score!
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:) js.....thanks!
In Spanish we would say......
"Matado por su propio pedo"
(Killed by his own fart)
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#12.2:But I'm going to look it up on Wikki-Wikki-Stan-Stan
OMGosh...I'm laughing my bum off...hope the phone doesn't ring!!!
That is so FUNNY! Rotflmao-wikki-wikki-stan-stan!
- 5 votes
The Donald is throwing a party and hardly anybody has accepted his invitation. He probably intended to make another faux run for the presidency anyway after the debate, but now he has to cancel the ludicrous debate plan or be embarrassed by the empty chairs. There is only one face saving way for him to avoid cancelling because of no-shows. He has to suddenly say that he has changed his mind and isn't doing the debate because he has decided to run himself. Get ready America. Here comes the comb over for one more self-promoting attempt to look like a candidate instead of just a fool. He has to get it all done before the new season of his T.V. show, so this will be a very brief episode of Candidate Trump just like the last one was.
By the way, any person who would pretend to hold a political debate on that vile NewsMax network cannot be taken seriously accept as a bigot and a conspiracy theorist. That is their stock in trade. They make Fox News look like the choir from St. Patrick's.
- 6 votes
#13 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:43 PM ESTThe GOP is a laugh a minute. Ship of Fools comes readily to mind.
- 3 votes
#14 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:43 PM ESTMaybe but Paul, Huntsman, Perry, and Romney all did the right thing in this instance. Give them a little credit at least.
- 7 votes
Johnny, you no angel. Now it will take me several days to rid my mind of that image.
- 2 votes
Give them a little credit at least
I just don't have any credit left to give to these witless chumps.
- 7 votes
johnny angel - "Backing away from a turd in the punchbowl is right too"
Wow....did that bring back memories of some of the stunts we used to pull at parties when I was a youngster! One was similar to the stunt you mentioned. :-)
- 2 votes
Donald was crying that even if he had the debates he still might run for president. Conflict of interest! OK run who gives a ___— ! The game is OLD let it go.
- 4 votes
#15 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:51 PM ESTDonald Trump looks into canceling GOP debate he's set to host (just as Sarah endorsed it, lol)
On the day this goat rodeo teabate was announced by The Donald, I said it would be cancelled within a week...well there ya go!
- 6 votes
#16 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:02 PM ESTlol come on admit it, it's like promoting an Apprentice which the contestants won't show up.
Call that weak, now he is turning it into something else. Lets say everybody shows up, would he be saying what he is saying now? NO, i don't think so.
- 3 votes
#17 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:13 PM ESTTrump is probably just starting to realize that his Presidential campaign was the end of his celebrity career. Going on TV for weeks and weeks spreading a demonizing lie about the President, and then getting punk'd by reality, is probably having a huge effect on people who used to sort of like him, but now cannot stand the sight of his fat, bigoted face on TV.
I would hope that like Sarah Palin, we hear less and less of Trump until he just falls into his own black hole and @!$%#s off permanently.
- 7 votes
Donald complained the other day that President Obama hadn't invited him to the White House, or ask for his advise.....what world does that ego manic live in?
- 8 votes
Please, Please, PLEASE!! run as an independent... you can split off the rabid "birther" and Teapublican votes and help to hand the Republicans an even more humilitating defeat in 2012...
- 5 votes
#18 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:23 PM ESTThe Donald should run..... but not for Pres. Well, that's that. What's next? I'm sure that is what everyone wants to know. Who is left to offend? What should we cut next? What program should we close? Whose closet door is slowly opening and what will be inside?
Stay tuned, the saga continues...
- 7 votes
#19 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:37 PM ESTLOLOLOL!
Trump to Don Imus this morning: *paraphrased*
Michelle Bachmann come to see me 4 times! Calls me asks me for advice.....says I should be her VP.......
And now she doesn't show up?
Where's the LOYALTY???
OMG!!
How does this man manage to breathe right through so much hair and ego maniacal bombast!??
- 8 votes
#20 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:37 PM ESThee, hee, hee, old donald is showin yew librals wut a grate man he is. he don't need no para sailin to git his pole up an he dont need to ware no depends cuz he is independent. now this heer is a grate man. trump towers above awl yew librals. he don't need no one else to kum to his debait. he kin do it by hisself cuz he is a master debaiter. stoopid librals.
- 5 votes
#21 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:46 PM ESTWould you mind trying just a tiny bit of spell check and sentence structure in your posts please, baddestbob? I had to squint to figure out what you were attempting to convey in your message. :)/p>
- 7 votes
It's his running 'hilbilly' gag. He's been doing it pretty consistently for a while now.
- 6 votes
My bad, I haven't had to read "hillbilly" for a long time now, thank goodness.
- 7 votes
rescue dogs62 - "Donald complained the other day that President Obama hadn't invited him to the White House, or ask for his advise"
I read that too, and thought, "Good grief. He verbally bitch slaps the President, calls him all sorts of names, brings back the Birther nonsense, then boasts that "he" forced the President to publicly post his long form birth certificate, saying "he" was the only person who had been able to do that, and blasted the President with all sorts of other lies and insults, then has the guts to bitch that the President didn't invite him to the White House? I don't think so!"
- 3 votes
Tink,
He is a complete ego maniac....and definitely not in touch with reality as we see it.
- 2 votes
Exactly, rescue, and he is his own worst enemy. His arrogance, big mouth and disrespect for the American people will be his undoing. He has a button that he is daring anyone to push, and someone will push it soon, and he will be his own undoing.
- 2 votes
Well, of course Donald is going to cancel. Someone explained his misconception. It turns out a "mass debate", with Rick Santorum, wasn't going to be what he was hoping for!
- 12 votes
#22 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:49 PM ESTWhat? Did Donald find out that they would be keeping their pants ON?
- 10 votes
3rdview, good one! it wasn't till the second reading that the mass debate thing hit me! thanks for the laugh!
- 10 votes
Yeah, 3rd, Donald might have thought he and Rick were gonna' work up some santorum!
- 8 votes
it wasn't till the second reading that the mass debate thing hit me! thanks for the laugh
I didn't get it until you mentioned it.
I wonder how Newt with his adultery, sick wife abandonment, ethics violations would debate someone who doesn't believe in birth control, and the missionary position is the only way to do it?.....then they're Trump with his own adultery and bankruptcy and fraud issues....I might ever moderate it myself. lol
- 7 votes
Of course, if the Donald decides to cancel it, he will make a big to-do about it. He will probably set a date to "announce a decision" and be in the news every day up to that time. He is an attention whore and just can't help himself.
- 6 votes
#23 - Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:58 PM ESTWow, this GOP clown show of a primary race is the most dysfunctional political extravaganza I have ever witnessed.
- 7 votes
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