Discussion: What Third Party Candidates Must Do To Participate In The Presidential Debates

I thought Drumpf would have been automatically invited? Guess not.

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I hope Trump can hang on to 15% to avoid banishment to the “kiddie table”.

On pins and needles about this.

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Trump will use the criteria as a reason to call the debates unfair (because he doesn’t dare be on the stage alone with Ms Clinton), cite Nixon’s refusal and not debate.

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I remember the last time a third-party candidate was in the debates. Don’t you?

Yes, it’s Admiral John ‘I Got Hit on the Head’ Stockdale. Newsweek magazine called him 'a kindly old owl that had accidentally flown into a closed patio door." Well, except for the last nine words. Those are mine.

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In general, not sure if more people at the debate will help or hurt Trump. I guess it gives him more people to play off. But Johnson hurts Trump more than he hurts HRC and Stein is unlikely to meet the 15% threshold any time soon.

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Offer a viable alternative?

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Don;t laugh but Johnson will likely be invited. The GOP lemmings are only starting to get warmed up…

The only thing that scares me going forward, outside of some October surprise, is Johnson getting on the debate stage.

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Too bad so sad for my Bernie or Bust (but actually Republican) Facebook friends who have been endlessly promoting Gary Johnson as something other than a Republican who likes weed.

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Personally, I’d love to see a couple of Green Congressmen, Governors or even state legislators and county supervisors. Even to simply develop the infrastructure to ask for my vote, instead of leaving it up to me to figure out for myself who the candidates are, would be a big improvement. Unfortunately, there’s just no there, there.

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So very glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read this. Thanks for a good, long belly laugh on a Monday.

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I keep getting the remark, “This election reminds me of [year]” I hear it all the time. The fact of the matter is that this election is like the ones in college where there was always a joke for student body president.

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I would very much like to see polling on this because all of my Bernie or Buster social media “friends” are going for Johnson and not Stein. I had to explain to one the other day just badly a flat tax would effect a car salesman with four kids.

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538’s ratings http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/

A+ ABC/Washington Post,
A- CBS/New York Times,
A- CNN/ORC,
A or B Fox News
A- NBC/Wall Street Journal

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It definitely helps him and hurts Clinton. I’m sure Johnson knows he’s pulling a not small portion of former Bernie supporters and it would absolutely behoove him to aide Trump in attacking Clinton while also presenting himself as a reasonable alternative to the two of them. Were I in his shoes, I’d pretty much dismiss Trump as a buffoon and set my sites on Clinton.

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I just can’t fathom Johnson getting to the 15% support threshold. Fingers crossed on that one.

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You have to explain stuff to these bozos all the time. (And I thought the Trumpholes were bad.) Seriously, I’m trying to have a BBQ in the back yard and one of these know-nothings keeps claiming libertarianism is the way to go while I’m concentrating on not burning the weenies.

Finally I lost patience with him and told him he was so full of shit that no wonder his eyes were brown. He demanded to know what the government’s ever done for people. I answered, “Created the internet, the interstate highway system, rural electrification, social security…those are just off the top of my head…For distracting me with your crap, you get the burned hot dog.”

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In order to participate in the presidential debates, I hope these two assholes, Stein and Johnson, are required to swim the English Channel while skipping double-dutch jump rope, and at the same time recite “The Odyssey” in Ancient Greek.
Johnson is a motherfucking loon, but I absolutely DESPISE that goddamned phony Jill Stein. I had a lot of problems with Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary, and I wasn’t shy about saying so, but if the presidential election was between Stein and Sanders, I would crawl over a mile of broken glass, hot coals, elephant dung, and hungry Zika-infected mosquitos to vote for Bernie.
I HATE that fucking Jill Stein.

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Hopefully, neither of the two 2nd tier candidates will be on the debates. We need to have 100% of the time showing 1) that Clinton has a good understanding of all policy issues and 2) that Trump is as under informed as his followers.

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