on MSNBC this AM, Hugh Hewitt just suggested that

[KewlKat]

there will be no second debate as drumpf is unhappy with that moderator.

So as we near the day of our first debate, do you think that it will be a oneshot thing? I think he won't do another. Didn't he backout of 2 in the primary near the end?

[Arkana]

1. If he gets buried in the first debate and ducks out of the second,

he will be called a coward by everyone who isn't already a Trumpkin--and possibly a few that are.

[TheBlackAdder]

35. He'll make it a complete shit show, spewing crap that will catch any reasonable person off guard!

[underpants]

2. Why is Hugh Hewitt taken seriously?

[BootinUp]

5. Why is Trump taken seriously?

[ooky]

9. Because of guys like Hugh Hewitt.

[Sunny05]

14. and how much is drumpf paying him?

hewitt at least used to ask real questions of djt, back during the primaries. Now hewitt just acts like an idiot, pretending drumpf might be okay as Pres and struggling to come up with even vague versions of worn- out HRC criticisms.

[vlyons]

3. Hugh Hewitt's smile reminds me of a smiling mortician

trying to sell me the most expensive casket or advanced classes in Trump University. When that guy smiles, I cringe. I cringe so much, I change the channel. Yikes, he really gives me the creeps.

[RKP5637]

10. He is a total creep. He has the persona of total creepiness. n/t

[PatSeg]

15. He really gives me the creeps as well

He is so maddeningly smug.

[Dream Girl]

16. Yes super creepy. Like Psycho guy.

[Blue Idaho]

24. He is the poster child for

"Grinning Idiots."

BTW - it's not too late for Trump to duck the first debate.

[George Eliot]

36. Why is Hewitt even on credible news program?

[beachbum bob]

4. I'll believe the first debate when trump is on stage, still expecting him to avoid it

[Iliyah]

6. No show for the 1st debate!

Come on, do ya think his cronies would abide by the debate rules?

And If Cuban was for t-rump there would be no question about him sitting in the front.

HRC got to look like a super model but t-rump dumbness is ok.

[Imperialism Inc.]

7. I think ducking out is most possible if Trump "wins".

If Trump can plausibly declare victory and then bail he will. He won't risk the chance of letting her win the rematch.

[Blue Idaho]

27. Regardless of how Trump does

He will declare himself the winner - then the totally corrupt M$M will agree and that will be that.

[Missn-Hitch]

29. I agree. But he may drop the F bomb or call HRC a bitch....or both.

Hell, I guess that would make his numbers go up.

[Blue Idaho]

31. I'm sure they will have him

Heavily sedated and fitted with a wire so they can use him like a sock puppet. We've seen this stunt already on the campaign trail.

Personally I'd like to see the debate space fitted with a broad spectrum radio transmitter broadcasting white noise to interfere with any radio device he is wearing. Otherwise, I don't trust the guy.

[Missn-Hitch]

32. Haha. I started a thread about an earpiece yesterday. Cheers Blue Idaho.

Not interfere, take it over. Broadcast soundbites from The Sopranos, Breaking Bad....Bugs Bunny.

[Blue Idaho]

33. This is more than likely...

I'd say it's probable. We might as well start banging the drum now...

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. That's no surprise really.

Martha Raddatz is a woman and Anderson Cooper is LGBT.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. and they both have allowed pubs regularly lie unchecked to their faces

Raddatz's supine acceptance of Giuliani's febrile attack on HRC a few weeks ago was particularly egregious

and Cooper's spineless, timid little interview with Trump makes me wonder why he's not salivating at the prospect of AC toeing the Zucker line, just as Lauer did his boss' bidding

[RKP5637]

11. I have a feeling the debates will not progress smoothly. It's hard to tell what sh** Trump

might pull. F, he might even walk off stage during a debate. The guy is a total kook.

[Brainstormy]

13. I have money riding on

1. The bet that Trump will never release his tax returns.

(this one seems pretty safe.)

2. Trump will not debate Hillary Clinton.

Now everyone says I've lost this one but it's not Monday yet. If a "debate" actually happens, I'll bet there will not be another!

[BlueMTexpat]

17. I am still in the

"not any shot" thing camp insofar as Trump debating Hillary is concerned.

I fully expect him either to find some reason - at the last moment - not to participate at all OR to show up and either a) refuse to say anything because he will charge that the moderator is biased towards Hillary or b) stomp off in a snit a la Ivanka in her Vanity Fair interview.

[duncang]

21. Dipshit donnie excuse #104

His hair fell over injuring his pilot and he can't make it.

[world wide wally]

18. Trump's debate preps are meeting with those seemingly thousands of surrogates they keep

putting on TV and rehearsing their claims that Hillary and the media cheated. I am sure his legal team (also in the thousands) are drawing up papers now to sue the media.

[shadowmayor]

19. Hugh Hewitt on MSNBC

There's nothing more to add after that headline.

[jalan48]

20. It looks like reality TV elections don't need debates.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Which means he's going

to hit heavy and refuse to debate more

I think all of them should be cancelled. You can't debate a narcissist.
They shift, ignore, lie, twist out of everything.

I hope they have no more debates.

[niyad]

23. still not convinced there will be an actual first debate. drumpfy is that much a coward.

[SCVDem]

25. If tRump does show up for the debate

Hillary should open her remarks by telling tRump he has a smudge in his make up. "Don't worry, nobody without an HD Tv will notice." Because comments on clothes and smiling only apply to women, right? First strike!

That oughta get in his head!

[tazkcmo]

37. lol You actually have something there.

He reminds of a boss I had that was obsessed with his socks. Every time he wore shorts I would let him catch me staring down at his socks and he'd ask me why I was. I'd slightly shake my head and say something like, "It's probably nothing." or "I doubt anyone will notice." and walk away. The rest of the night he'd be hounding me to tell him what was wrong. I believe a passive aggressive comment about his appearance would totally unhinge tRump.

[getagrip_already]

26. Then he gets those mods for the third date....

He can't "skip mods", if he doesn't show up for number 2, he gets them for number 3 and Chris Wallace is bumped.

[mucifer]

28. This is trumps way of trying to get softball questions and to get a moderator like matt lauer

[turbinetree]

30. He's all facists talk, good, don't show up, shows exactly what kind of non leader he really is, good

riddance, he has more "legal " problems:

While the door is hitting him in the a** show us your tax returns, show the entire planet what kind of a scum bag you really are....................

How is your crony "Carter Page" doing there herr oberst gruppenfuhrer drumpfster?

http://author.addictinginfo.org/2016/09/23/another-trump-adviser-under-investigation-for-russian-ties/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. Bill Maher hashtaged it properly.

[KewlKat]

38. In the eyes of the "media" and I use that term loosely, as long as drumpf shows up

and doesn't crap his pants, he will be declared the winner. Then he will say enough debates, I have places to be, how many times can you ask me the same questions, yada yada yada.....no more damn debates.

[Mamajami]

39. He will claim...

"I beat her bigly." The media will agree. And we will go out and vote in Nov. and beat him "bigly."