Discussion: Top 10 Candidates Announced For The GOP Debate

system1 · August 4, 2015, 10:11pm

Discussion for article #239068

callmeeric · August 4, 2015, 10:22pm

Get ready to MakeAmericaGreatAgain!

zakimon · August 4, 2015, 10:24pm

What a lineup of losers. Who’d ever want any one of those clowns to be a family member?

jekyll · August 4, 2015, 10:26pm

Really looking forward to the season premiere of the RepubliKlown Komedy Hour. Fox has come up with a great cast of promising newcomers and returning favorites.
They will make us forget about such past icons as Bachmann and Cain. If only they had lured Sarah Palin into the act…

ralph_vonholst · August 4, 2015, 10:27pm

The Addams’ or the Munster’s??

Lacuna-Synecdoche · August 4, 2015, 10:28pm

“B-b-but that can’t be!” Bobby Jindal sobbed. “How could I not get selected for the main Fox debate? I cut health care for hundreds of thousands of women in Louisiana by defunding Planned Parenthood!”

The tears flowed freely down his face: “They chose John Kasich over ME?!?! Kasich’s a wimp! He expanded Obamacare, for God’s sake! Damn, damn, damn it, I should have screwed women and the poor sooner and louder.”

srfromgr · August 4, 2015, 10:29pm

Everyone knows Kasich is on par statistically with some other Yayhoo that didn’t make the cut…but whatever…It was all so fucking predictable anyway. So which polls did they use? Something tells me Nate Silver will soon be able to tell Faux they’re all full of shit in their calculations, and in how they arrived at their choices. I believe Kasich is in because he’s an establishment candidate, and because if Jeb! flames out, which he’s got a 50/50 chance of doing…Kasich will be their back-up plan.

denisj · August 4, 2015, 10:29pm

Are there any polls that show these candidates as the top 10?

callmeeric · August 4, 2015, 10:29pm

This will not be a happy Mardi Gras for poor Booby Jindal.

srfromgr · August 4, 2015, 10:34pm

Doesn’t matter. Faux got the candidates they wanted. End of story. There was never really a process in place. They just had to frame it that way. It was always at their discretion. And if they ever tell anyone which polls they relied on, the cat will be out of the bag…cause it just won’t add up definitively.

chatterboxing · August 4, 2015, 10:36pm

Why do I get the feeling that they based it on the pics for American Idol. Would explain how Fox also came up with the idea of having just ten candidates on the stage.

So does this mean there will be a talent part of the competition ?

callmeeric · August 4, 2015, 10:39pm

I feel for Rick Perry

pluckyinky · August 4, 2015, 10:40pm

I don’t think that’s the case. This is what various right wing, middle of the road, and progressive websites have been predicting for days. TPM said as much this morning. The fact that Perry isn’t complaining makes me think this is in line with his internal polling.

Lacuna-Synecdoche · August 4, 2015, 10:42pm

Mentioned this elsewhere on the site, but it bears repeating, I think:

The arena the RNC will be borrowing for tonight’s debates (and the RNC convention too) is named Quicken Loans Arena.

How symbolic is it that the GOP - a party that runs up America’s debt and fights for the rights of the 1% to rip off its employees - is holding its first debate, and presidential convention at an arena named after a loan brokerage that doesn’t pay its employees overtime?

pluckyinky · August 4, 2015, 10:42pm

TPM’s own average of polls found these candidates to be the top ten of the last five available polls, which was the basis for these picks.

skippyflipjack · August 4, 2015, 10:43pm

I heard Sanjaya narrowly missed being among the 10 debaters.

srfromgr · August 4, 2015, 10:43pm

Yeah, its probably time to lose the glasses. Perry and his glasses didn’t make the cut. All for naught. Now he can go back to just being plain vanilla-wrapped Texass bullshit.

Wannabe Cowboys don’t wear glasses anyways, do they?

mondfledermaus · August 4, 2015, 10:50pm

I Just hope that Piyush finally understand that he will never be president, no matter how hard he sodomizes the people of LA and stop doing it.

srfromgr · August 4, 2015, 10:50pm

In watching the Maddow show however, it was shown that the margin of error was so close as to be negligible in deriving which candidate would/should/could be able to go ahead of another for the last two slots. That would matter if this process was actually an above the board process…but it isn’t. Its a totally contrived process from the start imo. Like I said, I believe it was a done deal before they ever announced how they would determine ‘the players’.

richardnixonhuberthumphrey · August 4, 2015, 10:51pm

Rick Perry: “NOOOOOOOOOOO! …I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!”