Petition for interested voters to ask GOP to Decline the Newsmax/Donald Trump debate. The debates need to be moderated by someone who’s agenda is as objective as possible. This is a standard that should be expected on either side. While it hasn’t always been the case this year, it doesn’t mean we should accept the inevitable. Donald is considering a 3rd Party run, and is still injecting commentary about candidates into his media appearances. Inclusion into a election debate creates a conflict of interest which can undermine the process.  Please share this if you are interested and agree. http://chn.ge/tNbvoW

Of course he is. That’s what he’s been doing all along.  No surprise or controversy there.

Thank God for Donald Trump.
I was feeling “Empty Nest Syndrome” when Cain dropped out, but fortunately Trump is filling the gap of making the GOP look like the jackasses they are.

Bless his heart.

Wow! When a disgusting manipulative man like Rove comes along and accuses his party of stooping low they are really really stooping low!

So is the whole GOP strategy round up the rednecks for the numbers and the wealthy will have a party? 

Rove destroyed the republican party. He pandered to the religious right and got the tea party as a result and moved the party so far right that only in the reddest county’s and states can a republican get elected. A smart republican would take a very centrist position and let the extreme fall in line.

Donald Trump does not see a conflict of interest in moderating a Republican Debate, when he was a supposed front running Republican Candidate earlier in the year?

For him, it’s another opportunity to sell his brand. 

The Republican Debates have been trivialized past tense. They have turned the process into a joke, at every point. The biggest star turn of this debate will be Trump. After which he will do someone, the further favor of bestowing his valuable gold plated endorsement, unless of course he decides to get back in the race as a Third Party Contender. 

There is another series of The Apprentice to sell next year, after all.

Nicely done Mr Trump. Never miss an opportunity to sell, no matter how it cheapens the US Presidential process.

…Republicans making themselves look truly dense.

Karl knows that Trump is using the Republican nomination process for his own publicity… and Newt fell for it by saying he would attend!!

Thank you.

Indeed, just when you think all that’s left in the Cracker Jacks box is the GOP, the krappy popcorn, you discover to your great joy there are still more nuts. 

I think the Newt simply tripped over his own ego once again.

This is the only time I will agree with Karl Rove! Trump thinks he’s Anoint-er-in-chief and everyone must bows and kiss his Ta-Ta and his gold ring before running off to the races! These Yayhoos have already compromised their principles with pledges to the like of Grover Norquist, Bob Vander Plaats, Edward H Crane and David Keene, to name just a few. Can the TEA-GOP-Republicans make any more of a fool of themselves than they have already? This TEA-GOP-Republican primary has already been entertaining enough, I wonder how much more there can be?

: )

Watching these two squabble is like watching a slap fight between your ex-wives. You don’t really care who wins; you’re just rooting for injuries.

Trump may have some of his daddy’s money left but as Romney has proven money can’t buy you happiness or supporters – Trump would never get on all of the ballots.   But the GOP is so skeered that any 3rd party run will siphon votes from their candidate and allow Obama to retain the office even though there has never in our history been a less deserving or more detrimental President.

This is publicity for Trump at the expense of the integrity of our political system… what little there is left of it.. now we’re not even allowing the pretense of an orderly and logical system.

My support is firmly behind Liberty and so I also support our constitution and Paul – now more so for not kowtowing to this entertainer / bankruptcy champion.

Keep it up Donald.  You make the GOP look even more stupid to serious voters.  What a freak show.

I almost agree with the canned ham who dons glasses except it’s the gang of idiots aka the gop field who are trivializing the process by their very presence. Who knows, maybe this is the new America. People eat up these stupid fake so called reality shows. Welcome to the idiocracy.

as has been fox news and most of the Republican Party…

i mean think about it..
newt? Cain? Bachman? PALIN??????

the cons have been making USA a laughing stock for some time now…

karma baby…

if you let pigs in your house–do not get mad when they stink up the place~

Donnie cares only about money and attention…
he just found a carnival where he was the best snake oil salesman…

the gop wants sensationalism? you got it..
sleep with the devil–you get the heat—and the horns…and that pitch forky thingy…
hahaha

I hate Trump as much as . . .  well . . . as much as I hate Rove but shouldn’t NewsMax be getting some of the heat for even asking the rube to moderate the debate.  Of course. We know the main reason NewsMax asked the hair to moderate, look how much publicity this has stirred. 

The Donald Trump publicity in the sad truth, is exactly what they wanted.

Didn’t Karl Rove and The Donald make a sextape two or three years back?

I think their porn names were ‘Butterball’ and ‘CombOver’…

No less than three trump articles on mediaite this morn!!!! Republican heads are EXPLODING!

I like your avatar.  Prabob.

I will take my line from Nipsy Russel’s “‘The Stars Fall on Alabama,’ I hope.” Republican heads are exploding. I hope.

For once rove is correct.

I know, right?

clinton and obama made us a laughing stock

I really hate to admit this but I have to agree with Karl Rove . I think  hell  just froze over.

Quite frankly, you are wrong.

At effing last! Someone with a pair of cojones.
Hat off to Rove!

I like it, BUT if they had any real brains, all of the candidates would refuse to participate. So far, all I know is Newt said yes but Paul and Huntsman said no. I expect Bachmann and Santorum to ignore the petition and attend. Perry should be the next to quit, regardless.
Maybe God will tell Perry and Bachmann not to attend.

Karl Rove is accusing someone ELSE of trivializing the election process?

That’s like Bernie Madoff accusing someone else of mounting a Ponzi scheme.

A smart Republican would, indeed; unfortunately, I haven’t seen one running for office in ages.  It’s a different issue among the voters, of course, although they’re showing the same signs of … “decline” their candidates are.  There’s no hope for the extreme right candidates any time soon, but I’m sure their voters will back off from the extreme politics.

I know!  I’m almost ashamed to agree with the man, but even he can’t always be wrong.  This election is already nuts without Trump; we don’t need him making it even more of a circus.  No more ridiculous fake candidates, please, especially when they’re even more embarrassing than the rest.  :(

What like the “Is our children learning?” president?

I think the only rational explanation is that the GOP tries to find the lowest coffee boy tool that they can and then the wealthy get to make and keep a lot a lot a lot of money at everyone else’s expense.

It’s one thing dealing with Gingrich’s ego because, at least, Gingrich is a normal corrupt politican with some knowledge of how the game is run. But then, you have people like Cain and Trump who don’t have any idea of what the political world is about. Cain was guaranteed to implode but, after all, as we now know, it was really a publicity stunt. But Trump is a much whackier commodity. I work in real estate in New York and Trump has always been an outlier, even for New York real estate mogul types. He was always outrageous and got no respect. His behavior is now so bizarre that I think he’s on his way to a total breakdown. Then, you have this completely nutso rightwing organization, Newsmax, who had the audacity to set up a debate with Trump as moderator. It’s pretty much on the level as Cain’s ad blowing smoke in our face. Didn’t Newsmax get the message that the publicity from this stunt would be much more negative than positive, and totally demeaning to the Republican Party. I don’t get it, the rightwing has all the money and corrupt connections and then they do this stupid stuff. How can they possibly win in 2012. Yes, there is a liberal God in heaven who loves America!

Karl Rove,

1) It got trivialized in 2000 when Katherine Harris in Fla was in charge of overseeing “chads” in a presidential election

2) You sir, have played a big part in turning the Republican party into the party of halfwits, extremists, evangelicals, corrupt politicians, warmonger neocons, vulchers on Wall Street, and so on.. 

3) You’ve gotten what you deserve.  This has turned into a CLOWN PARADE.  You literally have no candidate for the 2012 presidential election race.

4) You sir, led the way for corrupt behavior being marginalized and seen as acceptable in your party.  

Newt is going to meet with Donald before the debate.  When in history has a candidate ever had a private meeting with a moderator of a debate before the event takes place?

Thanks to Karl Rove (during the Bush years), Fox News, Limbaugh, rightwing radio and blogs, the idea of extremism and extremist behavior has become so common place, that people no longer recognize the extremism when they see it. 

This coming up debate is the icing on the cake.  You all should be ashamed of what your party has turned into.    

Dems are spineless and a bit messy, discombobulated at times.  but wow, look at what the Republican party has become.  

Now that Rove has no power, he can afford to be honest.

Takes one to know one

You forgot to mention that Trump also said he’s still not sure if Obama was born here.

how pathetic this clown show is…

 I don’t think it’s just the cons, or it’s a bad as you think. Other nations probably don’t follow our presidential primaries, I’m just saying that at a time when we have some very serious problems to deal with, the process seems to be incredibly superficial, both the candidates and the media.