New Rules
The Republican Presidential candidates want new debate rules.
I can understand why. The current rules involve “questions”. And people expect “answers”. How is that supposed work? That can’t work and surely doesn’t show Republicans in their best light.
Ben Carson wants no debating, just speeches. I might could go for that since Carson recently said, “Medicare is costing 45 hundred billion dollars.” Pocket calculators the world over exploded.
So, maybe new rules are in order.
Some suggestions:
1. No questions that involve math. Math is hard and rarely necessary to be President.
2. No questions about anything the candidates have ever said or done in the past. All slates are wiped clean at the start of each debate.
3. Questions will be asked by fourth graders.
4. Questions about decorating the oval office will be allowed and, in fact, are encouraged.
5. Each candidate will be allowed three phone-a-friend options. If a candidate doesn’t have three friends, they are allowed to call the Library of Congress.
6. There will be musical interludes to allow candidates to collect their thoughts.
7. All questions will be in the form of an answer. Candidates will then reply with a question of their choice.
8. Questioners will no longer be allowed to snicker when they say the explanation point after Jeb!
9. “What the hell are you talking about?” shall be considered a final answer.
10. All candidates will be given points on their hair styles.
Yeah, but if they do all that, what will Ted Cruz have left to bash “the media” about? That’s his whole shtick, isn’t it?
1A drool to English translator wouldn’t fix that hot mess. Imagine how much faster all of them would fail, if their ‘thoughts’ were expressed in a coherent sentence.
If it’s entertainment they’re after, then a 3 lie trap door under each candidates feet might be amusing.
2What is that thing on Trump’s head could highjack the entire 2 hours of stoopidity. All contestants get the chance to feel it and bash it with a club,in case it is alive and vicious.
3You had me until “10.” Trump would never agree to a debate rule that would leave him with negative points.
4No. 11: “Uh” and “Um” will be considered nouns and verbs.
5You beat me to it, JJ. I was going to post this as soon as I got up (Pacific time).
1. Have you ever helped an old lady across the street? (Gotcha addition- did she want your help?)
2. Is your mother proud of you? (Jeb doesn’t have to reply)
3. What is your favorite shade of red?
4. Do you like trees?
6Why punish 4th graders? Their questions would go right over the heads of these clowns.
7Soooooo… snacilbupeR have a script they use when talking about how people that are not white males should become leaders, movers and shakers. It seems always to incorporate how “we” cannot “lower the bar”. Because “we” all know that blacks and women cannot become oh say POTUS or whatever without “lowering the bar”. Disparaging stuff. See women and blacks and Hispanics and such non-white male folks just aren’t up to snuff say the snacilbupeR. So now they have what? 50 or 60 wannabes for the 2016 snacilbupeR POTUS nomination. And clearly not a GD one of them is qualified to run for any elective office, particularly POTUS. “Oh what will we do?” they cry out. Well LOWER the GD standards of course.
So let’s have the GOP infomercial. I can watch the lowlights on youTube if I feel so inclined. Or maybe I’ll just wash my feet real good that night.
I can’t wait until the morning after the Dems nominate the next POTUS. As soon as I can lay my grubby little paws on signs I’m gonna stick signs for 18hours straight!
8They really need multiple choice questions and maybe some fill in the blanks.
9Did you notice that the same people who support the cop who threw the student across the class room and whining about how mean CNBC was? Maybe the moderators of the next debate should throw the candidates across the room.
10True confessions time, my Bubba and I were high school civics teachers, we used to host candidates forums for school board races and for other offices. The kids wrote the questions, served as moderators and handlers, designed the programs which included the candidates bios, video taped it and handled the press releases. We never had fewer than 400 in attendance and all the papers and television stations sent their editorial board members.
The kids questions were routinely tougher than those from other forums, they were often better researched and thought out than televised forums. I once had a sitting Congressman tell me “it was the toughest questions he had ever received and ask me who wrote the damn questions and follow ups? ” I’m not certain he believed me when I said they were written by kids and that v the moderators were given discretion to follow up as they saw fit.
I mention this because, in fairness, 4th graders could might be too though…
11Third graders ask too many questions and the questions they ask are too hard. Better cut it back to First graders.
12Is everyone else here old enough to remember this?
http://lwv.org/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud
“WASHINGTON, DC —”The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter,” League President Nancy M. Neuman said today.”
Read the whole thing – it’s very short.
Same spit. Different decade.
13I say let Hillary ask the Republican candidates the questions. Turnabout is fair play.
14Imagine a game of Jeopardy with the Candidates! The only change to the rules would be that the one who demonstrates the least knowledge of the issues would move on to the next round.
15Hillary sat through 11 hours of the most ridiculous questions which had little bearing on the Benghazi tragedy. One example, “Were you alone at your house all that night?” These morons can’t endure any amount of probing on any subject so who wants another “debate”. I’d like to see a jumbotron which lights up when one of them lies and flashes the facts, blasting a police siren at them.
16Points#1 & #3 makes a lot of sense as the majority of ‘mericans don’t want a president smarter then they are!!!
17The whole thing is ludicrous, and now Reince Priebus is left scrambling to find a way to herd these cats when his carefully crafted series of debates intended to make Scott Walker King of the World suddenly were left without a point.
Remember in 2010 when Joe Miller and Sharon Angle were physically running away from the press to avoid embarrassing questions? That’s the whole, entire GOP now.
A free press means free stenography to the GOP. As in everything else in their Bizarro World, the Constitution means whatever the hell they say it means, at that moment.
18And the Democrats answer thusly!
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/02/republican-tantrum-backfires-democrats-gop-presidential-debate-slot.html
19Remember when the Dems used to be the party that would circle the wagons and then fire inwards?
20daChipster, remember Sharron Angle? She refuses to go away and has been less than coy about her territorial desires on Harry Reid’s Senate seat. She’s back with a vengeance. The Republicon primary could be a real circus; her primary opponent from her last run is seriously crazier than Sharron. Sue Lowden was the wing nut that recommended we barter for our health care with chickens. Texas may have a lock on insane male politicians, but Nevada has all their suitable brides.
Freedumb of the press, and until they polish up on that dumb part, Republicons will continue to whine about the media.
21Only three months until the start of spring training. And my bride promised me I could go to a world series game in Houston.
22I read in Wapo about Dems taking the Republican spot on Telemundo. Jeez, those Regressives really do hate Latinas and all other brown people. Keep it up boys! (And the occasional rare girl who acts masculine enough to satisfy the “real Republicans.”)
23maryelle, I’lll never forget that part of the “Benghazi, Benghazi” Hearing. Hillary had been on the stand since 9am,calmly answering silly “this will getcha” questions.
That silly right-wingnut woman from Alabama started with “Were you at home alone that night?” Hillary said yes and then the follow-up question was, “All night?” and Hillary burst into laughter. The indignant Repub congresswoman sputtered, “I don’t see what’s so funny.” Hillary replied, “A little levity at 5-15.” The committee members looked a bit fatigued, and Hillary looked fresh as a daisy.
24I still haven’t figured out how the question of Hillary’s guests, or lack thereof, was germane to the point of Benghazi. I don’t blame HRC for bursting into laughter.
25Thanks for looking that up, Lorraine. I remembered there was a kerfluffle, but I didn’t remember any of the details. That is one firm (good!) statement.
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