Quote:I agree with this completely. The main stage debate should have been shrunken before that CNBC fiasco...if you really want to call that a "debate". The Democratic debate showed that with fewer candidates onstage, you can get into more detailed answers than you can with ten candidates onstage who have little time to do more than list talking points.

 

I was a little surprised to see Paul, Kasich and Fiorina all survive, actually. If nothing else, the JV debate should be a lot more fun to watch, as I expect a significant amount of griping from Christie about being demoted. Huckabee will probably do all his crying behind the scenes to his Fox News sponsors/overlords.

 

It's not like he hasn't been trying to lose anyway, but I do sometimes wonder and laugh at the possibility that the Clintons convinced him that running for President as a parody of a new-age Republican would be fun.

 

I think you're oversimplifying things a bit here. I mean, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that 48% of US voters are Democrats and 39% are Republicans, right? Maybe if the Republican Party would quit pandering to the far religious right and put a stop to that silly little tea party of theirs, alienated Republicans and centrists would start voting for the R again.

 

http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/07/a...filiation/

 

I'd vote for him over anyone else in the Republican field except Kasich and Paul. I'd certainly vote for him over Hillary.