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Chris Wallace: Number Of GOP Debates Is ‘Ridiculous’ And ‘Insane’: ‘They’re All Stupid’

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It turns out that moderating several Republican debates does not actually make one immune to thinking that there may be too many of them this time around. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace visited radio host Mike Gallagher to talk about Thursday’s debate, and ended up instead talking about debates generally, and how “ridiculous” the fact that there have been nineteen of them is.

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Wallace told Gallagher that “it is ridiculous how many debates there have been– this is the nineteenth debate. It is insane that there have been nineteen debates!” to which Gallagher replied that the debates had become something of a reality show. Wallace noted that he had “been party” to four debates and it was difficult to come up with questions after a while, since they have already outlined their policies multiple times. The causes moderators to instead ask about personal attacks between the candidates. “I’m not saying it’s a great moment in journalism,” he clarified, “but on the other hand, they have been asked about almost everything a million times.”

After a comical exchange in which Gallagher tried to talk but Wallace complained he didn’t give him enough time, the former noted that “nobody ever booed Chris Wallace,” to which Wallace objected, joking that he was “still in therapy” for getting booed when asking Gingrich whether reports that his campaign was “a mess” were valid. Wallace then noted that, unlike himself and other moderators, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer had the State of the Union address to work with, and not discussing it was a “huge failure.”

After playing the exchange where Gingrich got feisty with Blitzer for a question about his attacks on Romney, Wallace began once again to analyze the clip before again repeating, “why on earth did they think it was good to have nineteen debates?” and later adding, before his point on Romney, that “they’re all stupid” and “people are not tuning in” to learn about policy: “it’s like you’re tuning in to a car race, you really want to see if there’s a wreck.”

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  • Anonymous

    “Chris Wallace: Number Of GOP Debates Is ‘Ridiculous’ And ‘Insane’: ‘They’re All Stupid’

    No shit Sherlock.

  • Anonymous

    I assume they were working on the basis that it’s free publicity and that any publicity is good publicity so all the debates would be a good thing for the party and the assorted candidates when the opposite is true. The candidates are overexposed and people have had time to see them for exactly what they are, which was anything but a good thing for someone like the bumbling Rick Perry or for Newt Gingrich who has had all his skeletons brought back out and freshly polished.

    It’ll be hard for the eventual nominee to patch up all the wounds this process has left, hard for them to paint some of the attacks and allegations against them as liberal attempts to divide the nation when they first surfaced from the mouth of other republicans.

  • Anonymous

    I totally agree the number of Republican debates are nonsensical with television, internet, facebook, twitter, blogs,newpapers, radio and good old word of mouth, the amount of information out there on all the candidates is enough to satisfy the most delicate nit pickers.
     
    How many debates have the GOP agreed for their prospective candidate to engage in. The GOP should pick 5 largest states to run their primaries and then the GOP official candidate has time to campaign for the November 2012 presidential election.

    Who is running the GOP primary schedules CNN?

  • Anonymous

    Chris Wallace has always reminded me of Paul Lynde.  He was the guy who played Uncle Aurthur on that old sitcom Bewitched and after that he was a big star on Hollywood Squares.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ StopElectionFraudClickHere

    Government posters really dominate this website.

  • http://twitter.com/RabbleRealist A Rabble Realist

    I just heard there is another debate tonight (sat 1/28) on CNN – is this true? 

  • Gloves Waxy Donahue

    Not really looking forward to the Obama/Romney debate in October hosted by Donald Trump.

    “Let me tell you guys the Trump way to handle China…”

  • Anonymous

    ‘They are all stupid.’ Chris Wallace

    How many debates did it take for him to arrive at that glaring summation?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    What Wallace meant to say is that Fox News is ridiculous and insane and most of the anchors are stupid.

  • Anonymous

    CHRIS WALLACE,
    Review some of your programs.  The number of them are ridiculous, insane…and they’re all stupid.  When you run for the school board, you can determine how to run debates.  Until then, I doubt that your opinion is needed.
    Delores Smith
    Delores109@cox.net

  • Anonymous

    SO ill informed and so clearly a conservative, and you were aware that the founders wanted to make sure the populous heavy political entities could not dominate the less populated political entities, totally rejecting the formation of a republic in favor of a constitutionally contained democracy.

    A republic as a form of government relies upon less than 10% of its population to be the controlling power and authority of a hereditary governance modle, you know like North Korea or Iran or like what the Rethuglican Conservaligious Corrupted Corporate Governance “we need to find an alternative to universal sufferage and the grant of the franchise to every citizen” crowd want to impose on America complete with a Chancellor and Tea Bagger fingermen and a mandatory single religion for 90+% non-citizens residents they want to rule with a one party only government.

  • Anonymous

    There is only one real problem with the debates. Even when the moderators ask pointed and cogent questions (which they rarely do), the candidates don’t actually answer them. Instead the candidates say something like “Well one thing I know is that Obama is ruining this country blah blah blah”.  At this point, the moderators should force them to answer the question instead of leaving it at that, but they never do. After the moderators get a real answer, there should be follow up questions, such as “How does that work?” and “Where did you get information from?” and “How do explain that the numbers you’ve just cited are refuted by this other report?” But the moderators instead just move on to the next non-answer. So all we get are hours and hours of meaningless sound bites. It’s not just a Republican problem either. 

  • Anonymous

    Do you honestly believe that the President would attend a Trump debate?

    Chris Wallace would call that stupid, Trump is just another standard Rethuglican member of the Ignoratty Conservatas.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Of course, the irony is the most stupid of all of the Republican debates were the ones in which he was a panelist.

  • Anonymous

    How many debates were non-Faux debates? those are the ones he thinks are to many, remember he is another Rethuglican elitist who believes only the most conservative of conservatives has a divine right to rule.

    Note that he had no problem with the Bushers claiming legitimate Presidential Unitary Executive Authority as derived from the CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION, Yep that John justify anything illegal Woo is such a loyal American that he relies upon ILLEGAL documents to justify his case to turn the country s Presidency into a dictatorship.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like Mr Wallace is tiring of this parade of car crash TV Reality Debating…

  • Anonymous

    Who exactly is taking that point of view seriously?

    The Electorate will always look at issues a little closer to home, despite their fears being played on.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    “They’re all stupid.” I couldn’t have described the republican candidates any better myself.

  • Anonymous

    Honestly, I’ve watched and enjoyed every single debate. It’s helped me understand these guys better. With that said, I wouldn’t vote for any of them. It’s nice to see Chris Wallace be honest here and destroy Mike Galleger’s silly, bias, one-sided views. 

  • Anonymous

    Too bad the Rethuglican one party government we had at that time was not interested in legitimate Presidential authority, it was only when Democrats got control of the House that Rethuglicans disavowed those justifications
    for actions they had taken under those memos of WOO-woos authorship.

    Years to late.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    What’s to misunderstand? The candidates and republicans as a whole have been walking in lockstep for YEARS. If you didn’t know what these chuckleheads were about before these “debates” you must have been under a big rock.

  • Anonymous

    If all you libs have such a problem with the number of GOP debates, why do you watch them? If you’re not watching them then what’s your problem?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Like some cheese with that whine?

  • sid_id

    I wonder if that includes the one he helped moderate as well.

  • Hout Bosques

    “it’s like you’re tuning in to a car race, you really want to see if there’s a wreck.” 
    Not even a funny-cars race – a demolition derby!

  • Anonymous

    I agree with Chris Wallace.  In fact, watching the Republicans being so nasty and spiteful towards each other, has been to Democrats advantage.  Furthermore, knowing what I know about Socialist tactics in virtually any context, it is entirely possible the debate process was contrived.

    The Socialists-Communists invented the ruthless, unapologetic intelligence service which was part and parcel of the burgeoning Soviet Union.  Ergo, it is logical to conclude that “you can’t have one without the other.”  Current American Socialism is, at least presently, only slightly less volatile than Soviet methodology.  Starting with Obama and his unsavory associations, Alinsky, Ayers, Acorn, surreptitious trips abroad, etc.  The current administration reads like a Tom Clancy novel, replete with an ‘agents provocateur’ ensconced in the highest office in the land!

    I don’t care what the leftist’s think about my comments as they are the “useful idiots” who allowed this conspiracy to come to fruition.  However, I do worry about the patriotic Americans who, despite warnings, voted for Obama and his future “polituro”/”Supreme Soviet,” American style.  Also, I worry for my Conservative brethren, as again we may be asked to save America, only this time from itself?

    Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately, I suggest the “Libs” contrived them?

  • Anonymous

    Cute (not!)

  • Anonymous

    They contrive a lot of things on this board.

  • Anonymous

    Lots of LOL FOXNEWS viewers seem to be posting here today. I think my quota for misinformation has been filled nicely. Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    I heard you keep your waste basket, ON your desk, labeled “IN?”

    There, that comment should be indicative of how useless your comment was!

  • Anonymous

    How many debates were held  in 2008 on both sides?  I know that Clinton and Obama had more than any one else.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Corny (yep!)

  • Anonymous

    So you plan on “saving” America with Newt or Romney?  You Sir are the idiot.  If America really needs saving why would the Right put this bunch of nutballs on their ticket?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer
  • Anonymous

    Democrats are considered to be, and referred to as politically “Left”.  Therefore, there is a direct relationship with Socialism and Communism.  Communists were/are the absolute masters of deception and misinformation, disinformation.  The KGB quite possibly was the most effective intelligence agency, ever.  They managed to find American Socialists hidden in very secret and important places, and persuade them to turn on their country and fellow citizens!

    Hence, we must conclude that FOX exists to fend off Leftist Propaganda, NOT promote its own.  If we could bury Socialism once and for all, we would no longer have this problem, wouldn’t we?

    Purveyor

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    It’s a conspiracy! Get your tinfoil hat back on!

  • Anonymous

    You obviously couldn’t come up with an intelligent response to my point. It seems you’re the corny one with your stupid one-liners.

  • Anonymous

    26, but apparently Chris Wallace thinks these are the dumbest.  I agree.

  • Anonymous

    I assume you are showing me YOUR trophy for inane comments?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    What point? That you’re embarrassed(as you should be) of these “debates” and wish the big bad libs would stop picking on candidates? Get f*cking real, whiner.

  • Anonymous

    Shhhh… he’s being preserved.  http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/lenin-mausoleum.jpg

  • Anonymous

    All a “conspiracy” requires is two people, plotting…  I suggest that requirement has  more than been met by the Obama Administration?

  • Anonymous

    “Hence, we must conclude that FOX exists to fend off Leftist Propaganda, NOT promote its own.”

    It’s just a shame that’s not true. Fox does in fact perpetuate it’s own form of propaganda. All news agencies do, Fox just so happens to be it’s own special flavor of misinformation and Republican talking points.

    As far as socialism and communism, well, it’s been in the U.S. for far longer than anyone on this website has been alive. Polling suggests that programs like Medicare and Social Security and the Postal Office and things of that nature are loved and needed.
    If you could show me a non-partisan poll showing otherwise, then maybe I would agree that Socialism and Communism are not staples of the American way of life.

  • Anonymous

    Well done, that was clever…  LOL

  • Anonymous

    “Hence, we must conclude that FOX exists to fend off Leftist Propaganda, NOT promote its own.”

    It’s just a shame that’s not true. Fox does in fact perpetuate it’s own form of propaganda. All news agencies do, Fox just so happens to be it’s own special flavor of misinformation and Republican talking points.

    As far as socialism and communism, well, it’s been in the U.S. for far longer than anyone on this website has been alive. Polling suggests that programs like Medicare and Social Security and the Postal Office and things of that nature are loved and needed.
    If you could show me a non-partisan poll showing otherwise, then maybe I would agree that Socialism and Communism are not staples of the American way of life.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    He’s in it with the aliens…Obama is building landing strips for gay martians! I swear ta’ gawd! You know what purveyor…I like you…you’re not like everybody else…here…in the trailer park.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Adam. There’s nothing embarrassing about the debates except to a know-nothing liberal like you. Maybe after the Democrats are out of power we can talk about how stupid their presidential debates are, that is if they’re smart enough to have any.

  • Anonymous

    Nice try, but all governments are comprised of some Governmental agencies, thats what makes the “Governments.”  Ergo, such does NOT denote Socialist proclivities within a Capitalist system.

    Your argument is fallacious and disingenuous.  Try again…  Ouch!

  • Anonymous

    “Sir” and “Idiot” in one sentence!  Where did you learn to do that, at the Kennedy School of Foreign Relations?

  • Anonymous

    The “Trailer Park Boys.”  I bet we both know people just like them?  Ouch!

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s tomorrow on FOX, either at 8 or 9 p.m. I’ve read conflicting reports. Don’t take my word for it, though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Nah. I was referring to the old Dead Milkmen song about whack-a-doodles like yourself that think everything is a grand conspiracy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuvcpjf1JU

  • Anonymous

    I thought they were perfectly reasonable questions.

  • Anonymous

    Was it  the idea  of the debates or the participates?

  • Anonymous

    I’d like the moderators to ask the candidates their opinion regarding Obama’s eligibility to be POTUS/TOTUS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Translation: I want my republican party to lose…….and lose BAD.

  • Anonymous

    ” If we could bury Socialism once and for all, we would no longer have this problem, wouldn’t we?”

    I was merely commenting on this little quip by you. The fact is, unless you want to get rid of social security, medicare and other things that the government has been offering since before any of us were born, then you are at odds with the majority of Americans.

    Socialism is not going any where any time soon. It does not matter if it just resides on some agencies inside the rest of government. These things such as the post office are stables in the American way of life and no matter how much someone whines or complains that America is some how falling to the evils of the eurpean ways of life (speciafially in the last three years /rolleyes), they just prove themselves to ignorant to the last century of advancement of social programs making sure the poor and elderly do not go hungry or homeless.

  • Anonymous

    Both, but can you use participates as a noun?

  • Anonymous

    The irony is that there is no “left” in America.  There was the “consensus”  that historian Richard Hofstadter wrote about; but that is what the “right” is unraveling.  There is no litmus test for political candidates that represent the tenets of the “consensus”; but there is a litmus test that is rigidly enforced on the “right”.

  • Hout Bosques

    There are only going to be 4 debates, as settled on by the parties months ago. 1 of those will be for the VP nominees, as usual (even though that over-rates the value of a bucket of warm urine by a factor of at least a million). All 4 have to go to legitimate news organizations; thus, FNC, MSNBC & CNN are out of the running completely, as political opinion channels (along with Wing Nut Daily, Current TV, & Red State Update sad about that lost one).
    The debate commission chooses who gets to host & host-televise. Last time PBS got  the VP debate (Gwen Iffel) & one P debate (Jim Lehrer), and each of CBS (Bob Schieffer) & NBC (Tom Brokaw) got one.PBS is going to get at least one again, for a lot of very good reasons (tho I wish they would add Bill Moyers to Jim Lehrer – they won’t, but probably Gwen Iffil), but the other 3, including the VP debate, are up in the air. Schieffer is getting awfully, awfully, awfully old, to the point of being maybe dead – as in Brokaw, except CBS has the least credible replacement (Scott Pelley? Good luck with that.), with NBC having Brian Williams. So, there’s an opening for ABC with Stephanopoulos and/or Diane Sawyer. This may explain in part the recent ThisWeek change to George S. as recycled host, and certainly explains what Williams was up to silencing the crowd in last Monday’s GOP debate – NBC & Williams know damn well the Debate Commission won’t put up with any raucous outbursts or grand-standing questions from hosts.My best GUESS is that PBS loses the VP debate so that each of the major trad networks gets one debate: 1. NBC retains a presidential, this time at least, with Williams joining Brokaw for the transition of Brokaw to Valhalla (though who really deserves it is Maddow – she’s the smartest of the bunch & SHE’S got the Emmy – but that’s not how the Commission rolls, not yet at least), & 2. the real fireworks are between ABC & CBS for the last P debate versus the consolation – the VP debate.

    Here is who is served best by the Debates Commission format: 1. Obama, 2. Obama & 3. Obama. Why? Because the Debates Commission does not like hosts allowing contestants to get away with lying. You can argue & spin, but you can’t lie. That is why Lehrer always gets one spot – he’s like a human lie detector. Williams & NBC want to sew up a permanent spot among the P-worthies, so no surprise that Williams has been channelling Lerher in the GOP debates. CBS has been grandfathered for many decades due to Murrow, Severeid, Cronkite & Schieffer but the dynasty has dried up & Pelley is & may well always remain a light weight (as is Williams, but again – Williams is making the effort & it seems to be working). That is ALSO why you saw George S so much more combative on last ABC hosted debate – he has to toughen up to impress the Debates Commission. Not being able to get away with lies & vague platitudes is going to cut massively into Romney’s vocabulary.  

    But it gets a little worse. The recent evolution of political TV is moving the hosts far more over to encouraging head-on-debates, with the contestants controlling the process; it’s great drama, way better than asking which color you wife likes best or which animal you could be (I’m talking about you, Blitz Wolfer). The GOP brain trust has not missed this trend. If you really want to know the WHY behind this huge number of debates for the GOP, think this: the GOP establishment wanted to prepare Mittens to debate Obama head-to-head. Now Mittens is thinking he’s done, he should be graduated – after all, he’s besting Gingrich. Uh – no; Newt’s just Newt – he goes for the flashy dive every time, and if he nails it he demands way too much pointage & if he fails he really fails ugly. No, the real problem is that SANTORUM can take down Mittens & Mittens is too bubble-headed to see that; & if Santorum can do that to Mittens, then they know Obama can & will dance circles around Mittens & stomp him into the ground. This is not 2008′s Mr. Hopey Changey play nice-nice Obama anymore – this is 2012 Cultural Warrior for the Middle Class Imma cut you up like confetti if you force me Obama.  

    (I’m really really really looking forward to the 3 P debates, because I think Obama’s going to show us the full Ali Triple-Play – one in which he floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee; then one in which it maybe be rope a dope it maybe Thrilla in Manilla but no matter which, it’s still slugfest; & then the final one, a real Sorry Mitt, but this isn’t personal, it’s business & I have to take you down to save the middle class & the American way of life; here’s a pillow to break your fall & a bottle of Advils for the pain Imma about to visit upon you & your descendants.)

  • Anonymous

    I dislike repeating myself, however, I will indulge you this once…  

    Your main argument is that Government, by having the trappings of Government, (Police, Fire dept., post office, even forms of welfare, etc.) Ergo, all Governments are Socialist.As I said above, that is a trite and fallacious argument.  To be a Government, a Government must provide Government, meaning a minimum and consistency of services.The Socialist has a counterproductive and frequently oppressive view on what “Government” should be?Personally, I assert Government need only assure or provide equal opportunity, NOT equal outcome which is the Socialist demand and a recipe for human misery.  ”One death is a tragedy, a million deaths, a statistic.”                          Josef Stalin

  • Anonymous

    Historian Richard Hofstadter  has explained that  a political society cannot hang together, at all, unless there is some kind of “consensus” running through it, on those entities that are needed for the greater good; and  this  social-conflict model embedded in U.S. history has mitigated the struggle among competing economic groups.   So the staples are not simply socialism and communism, but the “consensus.”

  • Anonymous

    In order to stop Socialism the theme for 2012 has to be Bury Barry or OMG Obama Must Go.  I will let every who I know that the election of 2012 is not between Democrats and Republicans.  It’s between Capitalist and Marxist Soicaists.   The young voters need to understand that their future is at stake.   

  • Anonymous

    That is interesting, but, you need to tell me a bit more?  Provide a bit more information?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    I completely agree.

    Too add to your comment:  We are “engaged in a great civil war,” but fortunately, not of combat, but of philosophy.

    Capitalist, Free enterprise versus Marxist, Socialist.  

    We need not abandon our Constitution as the recipe to repair the damage we have done to ourselves, is contained within.

    Thank you, as I was fielding a blizzard of comments, it is nice to see a compatriot?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.  Ronald Reagan.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Translation: Reagan and the whole of conservatism want to do away with the rule of law so they can rip as many people as possible off.

  • Anonymous

    H8 and spewisms and WOW you ground that ax in to metallic dust.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Took the words right out of my mouth.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    The only reason I can see to watch these debates is comedy value.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Not even the dunce platoon of Republican candidates want to touch that Birther lunacy with a 10-foot pole.

  • Anonymous

    I used to think all these debates were ridiculous, but it’s funny watching these clowns on the stage every other night.  I really miss Mr. Oops and Mr. 999.  Maybe they can rotate them in and out in the next few weeks.  

    “They’re all stupid” -Chris Wallace.    

  • Anonymous

    Media are all stupid. 2010 results were about fiscal responsibility. Paul is he only one who pledges to cut government, and he is just a footnote. None of the candidates has a chance in hell of cutting governmehasn’t he doesn’t make it a central plank in his platform.

  • Anonymous

    NO YOU CANT and It’s participants not participates, but don’t tell the conservatives, cause they will be calling me a word Not-see and a literate elitist just for knowing the difference.

  • Anonymous

    Are you single? add me.I can help you to find   lover…address:(— ‘sugarcupi d.С’(‘⊙)M—–

  • Anonymous

    When did you save America?

  • Anonymous

    Obama and Clark Kent…..

  • Anonymous

    Exactly !

  • Anonymous

    It’s not about cutting government, it’s about cutting crooks….

  • Anonymous

    The debates were not stupid, the questions were. Not one of the panel asked the question what you would do about the 1 million (legal) immigrants that come to this country every year. With unemployment at almost 8 1/2 %,  where are they going to find jobs ? We cannot support any more welfare recipents, we are at the breaking point now and must borrow money from China to pay our debts. We need a president that will stop all legal and illegal immigration until our country gets back on it’s feet, if ever. For the last 50 years our government has done nothing to stop immigration, legal or illegal. Many jobs have left our country and we still import immigrants, doesn’t make sense to me. We need a president like Truman or Ike to stop this insane practice.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FPPLBUFZMIJLGIIUMMRPGUQE6I Banh

    And you support Ron Paul, correct?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FPPLBUFZMIJLGIIUMMRPGUQE6I Banh

    So, you are a Ron Paul supporter?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FPPLBUFZMIJLGIIUMMRPGUQE6I Banh

    The media has put forth huge efforts to make him a footnote. In reality, he’s more than a footnote. He could be the foot with a big ole boot which will kick ass on our 2-party/media corruption.

  • Anonymous

    Wow!  Happy I could help you get all that crap out of your system.

    Isn’t the bottom line MAJORITY RULES?  Whether there are 10 million in one state and 125 million in another state, why should the 10 million voices have an equivalent voice as the 125 million.

    If that is the rule 10  is equal to 125 than what is the point of the INDIVIDUAL VOTE  

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul gave answers, but the moderators didn’t like them and avoided him as much as they could. His answers were simple and to the point of the question. Their main purpose was to try and trip him up, but they soon gave up knowing he was infallible because he was truthful and had common sense. 

  • Anonymous

    Not true at all.Two term republican president Eisenhower would today be a liberal.As your party continues to shift into right wing wackoville it gets smaller and less relevant.Eventually you will self destruct or we will be forced to exile you and your ilk to the moon,along with your leader newt.Maybe that’s why he wants to colonize the moon.

  • Anonymous

    You live in a corpocracy,and don’t know it.It’s a very small club and I doubt that you’re part of it.If you don’t know what the problem is you sure as hell can’t fix it.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with Chris Wallace enough of debates I think everyone knows where everyone stands should have only been 4 or 5 debates and that is it just my opinion. GOP Overexposed themselfs and did the work for Dems to use againist whoever wins Nom.

  • Anonymous

    If conservatives believed in the majority rules they would have respected the choice of the American people uin the election of 2008, just as they demanded that democrats respect the majority that elected Bush in 2004, but we conservatives Senators elected in 2004 and 2006 claiming they were elected to oppose the Presidency of Barack Obama who was chosen in 2008 so THEY BLATANTLY LIED.

    AND YOU!!!!! You did in fact did not help me get any non-existent crap out of my system showing how easily you resort to a lie and tactics of enemy domestic in that you would choose to let just 10% of the states choose the president who would stand for election even though the other 90% had no part in his selection and that is why you are so very……..Conservative Rethuglican in word and perverted desires.

    You have no respect for minority rights and would as in a republic impose your will on the 90% you would steal the franchise from denying them the basic right and responsibility of citizenship.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    The Republican debates were the most entertaining thing on television. I did my best to watch all of every one of them, and the laughs just got better and better!
    I will miss them when Romney finally sews up the nomination.
    So, I hope that Noot Gingrich stays high on the popularity polls for another couple of months.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Legal immigrants do not get welfare. They are legal because they get work and if you think you can’t compete with them for that work, it is your fault for not developing a skill that will get you that work.

  • Anonymous

    So if Fox exists to fend off what they see as propaganda, then it’s not really a “fair and balanced” news organization, is it?

  • Anonymous

    I knew there were too many debates but didn’t realize there were 19! Whatever the number, I thoroughly agree with Chris Wallace. (And would if they were Dem debates too.) Too much is too much.

  • Anonymous

    I disagree. I love aerial fights and watch in awe as the take out each other and burn all the way down crashing to the turf. Poof! Poof! Poof! Reminds me of Wylie, the coyote and the ledge he’s falling off of.And it’s so cute to see Gingrich being endorse by Perry and Cain. I’m sure Gingrich will watch with his own awe Perry’s “Deer in the head lights look” as he repeats “Oops” over and over again! And Cain’s endorsement reeks of complacency with Newton’s gregarious philandering. Gingrich – the defrocked speaker of the House, original godfather of government gridlock, two-faced philandering impeacher of Bill Clinton, fondler of six-figure Tiffany jewels and now in a dead heat with Romney? Not! I like the debates and wait for one or two go down in flames. 
    This is bigotry and discrimination in America. This bigotry and prejudice is taught. From mother and father and friendships. It even emanates from our political leaders. Bigotry and prejudice are alive in 2012! Newton Leroy called Barack Obama the “Food Stamp President! Continuing with poor people should want paychecks, not handouts. In South Carolina, the center of bigotry and discrimination in the South as they still fly the Confederacy flag. Gingrich said this on Martin LutherKing, Jr. Day! He used the word “Liberals” in his statement which has infuriated many blacks in that state. His tactic in South Carolina smacks of the type of rhetoric used in his “Southern Strategy” and his “bread and butter” wordage bordering on racist. This candidate started a confrontational debate tonight when confronted with his second wife’s allegation of his request for an “Open Marriage”! Gingrich, being from Georgia, continues his stereotyping of blacks in his speeches. Santorum seconded the the continued stereotyping of blacks in his speeches with “I don’t to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” Every TEA-GOP-Republican knows their oratory wording can make or break them depending on which state they are stumping and even the area of that state. They are all career politicians.

  • Anonymous

    They were assclowns when they started,they’ll be assclowns when they finish.If this is the best their party has too offer,they have serious problems.

  • Anonymous

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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/TDQLXWNW4SZM63ZHEAZFKLPTL4 BKB_girl

    Low IQ linked to social conservatism and prejudice.

     
    http://www.mediaite.com/online/study-suggests-low-iq-social-conservatism-and-prejudice-go-hand-in-hand/
     
    Chris Wallace should have added that there are NOT fit to run the country.  The problem is NOT the number of debates, it’s that they have NOTHING better to offer the American people.  It took the 8 years to RUIN it and now expect President Obama to build it OVERNITE with an uncooperative republican congress.

    The question is why are “good” republican candidates not running?
    They KNOW that President Obama is NOT the problem.

    Let’s not forget why Mr. Gingrich left congress!! 

    Can someone please tell me know how many jobs were created by Mr. Romney’s $42 million dollars?

  • Anonymous

    THe original topic I was responding too was by ARREPLICA, whereby he/she asserts FOX disseminates “misinformation.”

    My retort covered that “topic,” not yours which is “fair and balanced.”

    You have changed the subject rather than address it.  Typical.

    Purveyor  

  • Anonymous

    Of course not! How on earth you could conclude that based on my posts, is a mystery?

  • Anonymous

    How can 3 people approve of your comment, which does not provide enough information to comment on?

  • Anonymous

    How can 3 people approve of your comment, which does not provide enough information to comment on?

  • Anonymous

    “Dead Milkmen” “Whack a doodles” ?

    Is that an end note or a foot note?

  • Anonymous

    Incoherent, more information please?

  • Anonymous

    Incoherent, more information, please?

  • Anonymous

    Finally I can agree with Chris on something. Enuf with the debates.

  • Anonymous

    Do you fries with your order?  

    I am sorry, but your post sounds as if you are ordering fast food at the drive up window.  Two statements, masquerading as sentences.  SAY SOMETHING substantive, support your argument, offer a solution…Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Question:  ”ARReplica”  As a gun owner and shooting enthusiast, my first reaction is that your pseudonym relates to weapons manufactured by the “Armalite Corporation,”  Or, you own one of the many clones being manufactured today?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Respectfully,

    That comment stands the law and common sense on its head.  

  • Anonymous

    If there is a foole in a room full of fooles, who don’t think the foole is a foole,  does that mean the foole isn’t a foole?

    Purveyor

    (Note: The final “e” on the word fool, is in deference to the late George Carlin)

  • Anonymous

    Remember my theory of “economic treason?”  The economy, like water, MUST seek its own and proper level, and that means wages.  Any artificial program that is inserted into the economy disrupts other aspects of economy, thus creating a false economy.

    When I am told that Americans won’t work in the field for low wages, my response is  raise the wages, NOT bring in what amounts to a form of “slave” labor.

    “But the prices will go up”  That is nothing more than the economy seeking its level. Higher wages paid to a group of Americans means more money inserted into the economy… and “water seeks its own level”

    Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Чёрт Возьми

    In what way, sir?
    The key word is legal , so what is your reasoning? Remember you vow to neutrality in your opinions.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Who else propounds this theory of “economic treason?” Certainly not Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, nor any other candidate for any office that I know of. In fact, it is only the unions who consistently argue as you do, that American jobs belong only to Americans. And, they most certainly agree with you that wages should go up, never down.

    As for the legal immigrants that get Green Cards, many of them are highly educated. They are doctors, engineers, managers, etc. Let us not forget tens of thousands of students from all over the world. They are not taking jobs that Americans don’t want. They are more qualified to do those jobs than many Americans.

    Would you insist that an American be your doctor if someone from India happened to be more qualified than the American is? Would you have American medical schools lower their standards in order not to commit “treason?”

  • Anonymous

    With the advent of computers, this proposal is very doable:  Program and create two or more fictitious Nations, all with natural resources, populations, technology, variables, etc.  Then add or subtract variables such as famine, a good harvest, population, etc.

    Then, apply various forms of government and see what happens, in theory?  The other aspect of which I am interested in is the affect of population on this scenario?  Quality of life issues and ecology would be exposed.  How or what happens when population becomes unsustainable?  

    Do they look for “leibens raum,” (spelling?) or find another solution that threatens the morals of a portion of the population?  And so on…  Anyway, is an opportunity to see what pure free enterprise looks like. 

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Common law tells us that no profit should be made from an illegal act.  Not just the immediate players, but there are ancillary considerations that may be applicable.  Granted, a legal immigrant is a “legal” immigrant, but what about children born to that family while in America, is the child now an American citizen?  Was that the intent in the first place, to fraudulently insert themselves into an American citizenship?  

    IT GOES ON ALL THE TIME, and I am sick of being the patsy!

    Furthermore, you asked me about my vow of neutral principle? The Theory of EconomicTreason is pure NP.

    Lastly, with proper wages established, there will only be a minimal need for foreigners.  Today, America uses PC reasoning to allow for a percentage of foreign students.  (Who or what dreams that stuff up?)  NO demand, no foreigners.  No foreigners, no skewed political nonsense based on population as a political weapon. No La Rasa and no Nationalist Mexicans spewing venom.  No foreigners, also equals less terrorism, etc.

    Tourism is fine.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    I don’t make the laws that make immigration legal. I, too, am surprised that so many foreigners become students in the US, but it seems to be economic in that somebody is paying those schools to accept foreigners. It is economics, too.
    Must I remind you that only one country in the world now refuses to let foreigner enter and work. That country is North Korea.
    (Japan will not allow a foreigner to become a citizen of Japan, but it does let foreigners work there.)

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/HGSSKY4QXLW5DBH4NJTPZXTCCY CharlesW

    Wallace is an idiot! They haven’t been asked any important questions by the press. No one has asked them where they stand on Agenda 21! Not one has asked them how they would solve high unemployment or attack the huge Obama deficit! Not one has been asked about how they plan to fix Social Security! What about asking where they stand on foreign aid – wasted on the Palestinians and countries like Pakistan. How do they plan to fix the economy? Wallace should get his head out of his butt and learn what questions to ask.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Stanley/100000152482172 Steven Stanley

    Especially when the candidates need to pander state to state.

  • david r

     Zzzzz.

  • bugspotter24

    I’ll BET Wallace finds the debates stupid.
    They allow his masters’ enemy to speak to the People.
    And reminding them about the Constitution.
    And now, the People are becoming aware that they are surrounded by criminal propaganda, sponsored by a foreign fear-mongering war-machine.
    This fact is often brought up during a “number debates” by said Constitutionalist, enemy of Wallace’s masters.
    Do you understand why Wallace finds the debates stupid now, patriot?

  • Anonymous

    ROTFLAMO!!

    The thing that many young people do understand that they are graduating college with a crushing amount of student loan debt and starting salaries are constantly decreasing due to the fact that there are more qualified people in the job market than there are people. This is happening while corporations are sitting on trillions and if they are hiring it’s not in America.

    As for your Capitalist vs Marxist Socialists you sound like Sarah Palin…all sound and fury signifying nothing.

    I bet you couldn’t give the simplest definitions of either capitalism nor marxist socialist. LOL

  • Anonymous

    The more that Conservatism is ‘on parade’ the better it is for the base, the better it is for the country.
    There is no future in Progressivism nor timid rinos

  • Anonymous

    I don’t compete with anyone, I’ve been retired for 7 years and do as I please, but when Americans are unemployed the last thing our government should do is import more workers.

  • Anonymous

    “Who else propounds the theory of “economic treason?”

    Most of what I write about are my own ideas, or ideas of others that I have expounded on, hence made my own.

    I proposed a long time ago of taking philosophy out of the cloistered hall of academe, and let those ideas see the light of day. What good is Plato and Locke if you can’t relate such to current events?

    My professors taught dry philosophy, which was so wrote I couldn’t understand why they didn’t take the next, obvious step and apply , compare and contrast, etc.?

    That is why I, AM a philosopher!

    Furthermore, many religious teachings can be found in the intellectual reasoning of the great philosophers, thus satisfying my question: Morality or ethics?

    Neutral principle was not my idea, however, as I have evolved that philosophy, I have made it my own, thus share with whomever… reason or emotion?

    I want to share my ideas, not impose them.

    Purveyor

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Ah, ok. The future is in regressivism. That makes sense.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, well sure. But here we get to see them talk for themselves instead of being spoon-fed sound-bites and opinions about them from other sources.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t have a problem with them. I say do more!! I think it Chris Wallace had a problem with them though, and I doubt he is a liberal. lol.

  • Anonymous

    In this instance, Liberty is the opposite of Progressivism
    Happy to clear that up for you

  • Anonymous

    The ONLY future for America that includes the freedom to be middle class is Progressivism. The conservatives have proven for the last 30 years that they are out to destroy the middle class. And, they have been hugely successful at it. Without President Obama putting the brakes on their assault on workers, it is likely there would now be bread lines. Plus, it is not too late for that to happen in the RepubliCONS get their way.

  • Anonymous

    I see you like to make up your own definitions.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the debt is Republican. It has only increased 16 percent under President Obama. 189 percent under Reagen. 115 percent under G Bush. Look it up.

    Social Security is solvent for the 28 years or so, with NO CHANGES. (There are 2.7 Trillion dollars in the SS trust fund. All paid for by current and future beneficiaries. Not a cent from the government.) And SS would be able to pay out at 80 percent of the same rate for the foreseeable future. Simply raise the $108,000 cap and we actually would have a surplus for the foreseeable future. Look it up

    Foreign aid accounts for about EIGHT-TENTHS of one percent of the budget. Look it up. Why not eliminate corporate welfare, and save hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars?

    When you get your info from FOX so-called-news, you sound like a fool. I realize that facts have a liberal bias, but at least they ARE verifiable.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, I can tell you the difference! Oh,wait 

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Why is anyone surprised by the number of GOP debates? The choice is between the epidemy of Vulture Capitalism, the actual ‘Banker’ who foreclosed on your home and the Eliot Spitzerest, Newt ‘no morals’ Gingrich who won’t finish his first term anyway due to all the corruption scandals.

    Obama is the choice of a propserous future. 

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Let me sum up that debate for you:

    Moderater: Gentleman, my niece makes 40,000 a year, the average salary in America, she has some college but didn’t graduate is 35 and has a daughter. How will your policies help her and differ from your opponent or Obama?

    Mitt: I have video of Mr. Gingrich sleeping with a 10 yr old.

    Newt: Mr. Romney, you are a liar and I am baffled by your arrogance.  That video footage was disproven 10 yrs ago by TMZ.

    Paul: I would say why does government have to help her? a single mother making 40,000 is a lot of money in Somolia.

    Santorum: She’s a whore, she should have kept her faily together instead of sleeping around.
    (Republican Crowd cheers)

    Moderater: I’m going to go jump off a bridge now, but if I survive, I’m voting for Obama.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Actually, there is one at 8 on the topic of Newt’s corrupt time as Ousted Speaker of the House moderated by Nancy Pelosi, then there’s one at 9 moderated by the SuperPac that wrote King of Bain and co-moderated by the SEC’s fraud and financial crimes task force.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Isn’t Trump’s clothing line of shirts and ties manfuactured in China?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    In all the 19 debates Ron Paul got a total mic time of 15 minutes.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    As long as Jersey Shore is on, there will continue to be more GOP Disasterbates

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    As long as Jersey Shore is on, there will continue to be more GOP Disasterbates

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Yes, we all know this. But that will not change the minds of Republicans who could care less. 

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Example:

    Moderator: Please tell us how much money your tax plan gives to the middle-class and how much to teh top 1%? A specific number please?

    Mitt: I am Mexican and my mother is from Florida, yo halba espanola.

    Newt: I did not have sex with that woman!!

    Moderator: I’m sorry gentleman, the question was about your tax policy.

    Ron Paul: Do I get a chance to speak?

    Moderator: No.

    Gingrich: No.

    Santorum: I hate gay people.

    Modertator: Okay, once again, can we please have a specific answer:

    Newt: I think this entire line of questioning about my personal affairs is preposterous! We need to talk about real issues, like my plan to create the 51st state on the moon by 2097.

    Mitt: Yo tengo mucho tax cuts para corporationes.

    Ron Paul: (His microphone has technical difficulties)

    Santorum: I will give 50,000 in tax cuts to each family, that has a mother and a father, as long as they live in a gates community, and 2.5 kids and will serve in the military as we will need to boost our troops to prepare for war with Iran.

    Moderator: (has been clinically dead for the last 25 minutes after hanging himself with his tie: no one noticed)

    Republican Crowd Cheers!

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    The only reason I have watched some of these debates is so that I get the jokes from Saturday Night Live after.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    I thiink they should rename the GOP Debates “The flavor of elephant love” or “ShitzTV” something along those lines/

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    that were never answered.  i bet you couldn’t tell me anyone’s actual tax policy and how it affect you. 

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    it’s called Rubbernecking.

  • Anonymous

    Oh sure, but it’s like a tragic comedy that could affect our lives in a very serious way. This is why I want to be as informed on these people as possible. I refuse to be spoon-fed sound bites from the media, so I watch every debate in its entirety.

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