the_human_being
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Fox is the loser here. I don't fault them for standing behind their employee. They should do that. It will cost them big time. There's really no one left to see other than possibly Cruz and Marco. The others don't have a snowball's chance and should already be off the stage. As much as I like Rand Paul, he is going absolutely nowhere. Megan should shut her mouth about Trump's non-participation. She's already alienated a lot of people by her performance in the first debate. She's beginning to sound like that Dixie Chic mouth. Just have the debate and reconcile yourself that you are going to lose viewership and move on.
No, the REAL loser(s) would be the American people.
Is it at all possible that Trump's cheerleaders could stop hooting and hollering long enough to remember that this is not Trump's reality show feuding with its network, with a big, fat "Who gives a crap" at stake? This is a debate in the primaries for the Republican Presidential nomination. It has a purpose beyond empty, mindless entertainment. It exists to - hopefully - inform people and help them decide who to vote for, or possibly even TO vote.
I realize that it's impossible for drinkers of the Trump Kool-Aid to imagine that the whole nation hasn't become wild-eyed fanboys along with them, but many people haven't. Many people haven't even been particularly paying attention up until now. And I would very much like to challenge the notion that a handful of debates and a buttload of Twitter blurbs are "all we need to know" in order to choose the leader of the free world out of a wad of people we weren't even paying attention to six months ago. Even Donald Trump, celebrity extraordinaire, was just "that rude rich guy with the funny haircut" to most people back then.
So how about we remember, while we're all getting our entertainment jollies over Trump's spoiled prima donna tantrum that there's actually something important at stake here, and it says nothing positive about him that his ego is, once again, a higher priority?
Well, if you're still that uninformed not to worry. You still have plenty of time to make up your mind. One little debate won't make that much difference. If you are really interested in the candidates, I would suggest you visit their web pages or Facebook pages and learn something about them. You cannot learn much from a debate where each candidate only gets asked to respond to one or two questions.