(08-10-2018, 02:20 PM)copycat Wrote:

(08-10-2018, 02:08 PM)mikesez Wrote: Begging for a debate is a sure sign that you are losing in politics, sadly.
Perhaps another candidate for US House should step up to the plate.  As a real, live politician, pundits are now beneath her pay grade.

What?  Where on earth do you get these notions?  She has been trotted out by friendly media types and unchallenged by anything she says.  If she were worth her salt she would jump at the chance to prove her ideas and concepts under scrutiny.  Alas she scurries away.

Nope.  That's not what game theory says.  When you obtain a position of advantage or privilege, such as nomination for a seat in US Congress, you do not allow people who did not obtain such a position share a stage with you or speak to you as a peer unless they are working in your interest. 

If you've actually gotten in the trenches of politics you would know this.  

An incumbent is challenged.  Inevitably the challenger says, we have to do so many debates, and sometimes the incumbent skates with no debates at all.  

How do town hall or city council meetings work? The high status individual up on a stage, allowed to speak for as long as he wants, the frustrated constituent allowed to speak for only a set amount of time, not given an opportunity to properly introduce himself, and usually comes off a bit crazy if they ask a biting or specific question for that reason.  The crowd is all like, "who is this guy?!" When TPUSA begs her for a debate, that's what they look like.  And she loves it.

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