Conservatives Call Out Republicans Over YouTube Debate
July 28, 2007
The Republican presidential candidates are getting serious grief not only from Democrats and progressive bloggers for being too scared to take part in a CNN/YouTube debate, they are also being called out by conservative activists. A group of conservative bloggers, new media strategists and campaign organizers have banded together to tell Romney, McCain, Guiliani and company to get off their old media butts and participate in the debate.
The Republicans are getting cold feet about the debate currently scheduled for September 17th in Florida with Romney saying that its undignified for the candidates to be questioned ordinary people like you and me and Guiliani is citing unspecified scheduling conflicts. Only John McCain and Ron Paul have agreed to participate in the debate.
This is not really surprising. Even as the Republicans have talk with pseudo reverence for ordinary Americans, they have enacted policy after policy to screw the average man, woman and child in favor of the wealthy and powerful. Even now President Bush is opposing a bill that would increase the number of poor children who would get government funded health insurance.
Why are the Republicans too scared to take questions from the American people? All of the Democrats did.
Entry Filed under: 2008 Election, Advocacy, Campaigns, Conservatives, Fred Thompson, Hypocrites, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Politics, Republicans, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, Video, YouTube. .
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Tim | July 28, 2007 at 11:12 am
“Why are the Republicans too scared to take questions from the American people? ”
That should read why are SOME of the Republicans too scared. Because as you point, out Ron Paul and John McCain are not afraid of the American people.
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criminyjicket | July 28, 2007 at 12:27 pm
i’m sure that the debate being scheduled in the same moth as the big Iraq benchmark has nothing to so with this….think before you write…that makes more sense
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criminyjicket | July 28, 2007 at 12:29 pm
and for Tim…would you fight say hulk higan? the candidates that agreed to be there are on the right side of the wat issue. The others are smart not to attend at that time. when did mitt say it was undignified, btw?
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Bil Browning | July 28, 2007 at 2:12 pm
This is the part that truly pisses me off. If he’s not willing to listen to the people now, what should make us think he would as President? And aren’t the people his “bosses?” I think that’s exactly who he should be listening to!
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criminyjicket | July 28, 2007 at 2:54 pm
this is what he actually said. It bears scant resemblance to what you posted.
In an interview Wednesday with the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, Romney said he’s not a fan of the CNN/YouTube format. Referring to the video of a snowman asking the Democratic candidates about global warming, Romney quipped, “I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman.”
that’s cut and pasted from the washington post blog
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Bloggernista | July 28, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Romney, Guiliani and the others can make as many excuses as they like. The bottom line is that they are not willing to answer questions put forth by the American people. And no, the cherry picked audiences that they allow into their campaign events don’t count.
Why are they so afraid?
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criminyjicket | July 28, 2007 at 4:08 pm
i just told you. The benchmarks on Iraq are due about the smae time, and they are smart enough to know that is a bad environment for a debate. Compare it to the nothing happening environment the dems enjoyed. I’d explain further but i already posted all this, and i’m sort of tired of repeating myself
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chesterton | July 29, 2007 at 11:26 am
Right now all the top tier candidates are feeloing pretty good about their standings in the polls. I think that they don’t want to be part of any debate where Ron Paul is allowed to speak. They don’t want to be seen getting clobbered by Dr Paul in front of such a large audience. They only stand to lose support by showing up.The only thing they can do is minimalise the debate by not showing up.
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Bloggernista | July 29, 2007 at 11:50 am
But, if the leading Republican candidates are unwilling or scared to appear to answer questions from voters, why should voters even before to show up at the polls to vote for any of them?
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Williams | July 29, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Having said something like this can be very hurtful to most of the voters. If Mitt Romney does not want to take questions from the ordinary folks, then he should say no to our votes as well.
The good news is in South Florida, especially Miami-Dade County, there are more registered republicans and independents than democrats. To get Dr. Ron Paul messages out, remember in additions to the Meet-up Groups, we have more powerful ways to compete against TV stations and the newspapers; that is the internet and the high way billboards.
When people pass by to and from work in the morning-afternoon rush hours, Dr. Paul message over a billboard can be seen and heard loud and clear. They moment folks get to their office or home, they first they would do is to immediately go online to learn more about him.
Anyone who loves the United States of America should throw his/her support behind Dr. Ron Paul’s presidential campain.
My family and I have never cast our votes based on media endorsement or recommendation due to big-money candidates. We followed the candidate’s ideas and platform before making a final decision rending our vote to be a well-chosen and educated one.
We would like to recall that the person with the best productive ideas can always make a lot of money for himself and teach the rest of us to do the same in the proper way in avoiding corruption.
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