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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith 10mil$ Super Pac, why have any debates. I believe this GOP will drop them.
Why bother when they can buy all the time they need, no Palin moments this time around.
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)The shows will go on.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Don't know if it will fly this time. It could I suppose. It's Sarah Palin's dream come true if they eliminate debates. Ink poisoning can be dangerous.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)except for Fox News. If he cuts out debates then the Republicans could replace him with a hologram and we wouldn't know it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The debates hurt McCain badly, and the current GOP is not going to provide a side-by-side contrast of the simple humanity gap between the two candidates.
Negotiations over number and format will break down, "both sides" will be blamed, and there will be no debates.
onestepforward
(3,691 posts)to drop out of debates, then Rick Perry showed me they can. He refused to debate in his last election.
Obama would crush Romney in a debate and it wouldn't surprise me if Romney refused.