If people do not like the D & R, do something about it. DON’T VOTE FOR THEM!

I’m willing to bet that if Kucinich and Gravel were close in the polls they would be thinking the same thing.

I haven’t watched all of them, but in the ones I have watch the so-called “top tier” candidates get most of the time and attention anyway. Gravel in one of the debates finally got a turn to contribute something and said: “I’ve just grown up. I’m the senior statesman on here, and I was beginning to feel like a potted plant standing over here.” He was frustrated the “top tier” candidates were getting all the action. Personally, I can’t blame him and I agree with Nick on this issue.

But it’s had to disagree that putting in a load of no chancers in the debate waters them down so much you lose any ability to really here from the ones with a shot.

Bones,

Clinton and Edwards have raised FIVE to TEN times as much money with which they can use to air political advertisements. They have plenty of opportunity to get their word out. Having “lower tier” candidates isn’t preventing Clinton and Edwards from getting their message out.

I don’t understand the entitlement mentality among Democrats and Republicans that posits that the wealthy and politically-connected Democrats and Republicans somehow deserve even more of an advantage from the Mainstream Media than they already have.

The media’s duty is not to the esatblishment candidates…it’s to the American people. And to the extent that the Mainstream Media fails to focus on political mavericks that discussing political issues that the establishment candidates refuse to talk about, the MSM is failing.

This is why we keep having to decide to choose between the “lesser of two evils.” Anyone who isn’t an establishment candidates doesn’t have a chance. The Mainstream Media and the two-party establishment sees to it that this is so, and supposedly “independent” voters go along with the charade.

If we are one month before the primaries actually start and it appears some candidate has absolutely no chanc, then it can be in the public interest to get the word out about the truly viable candidates, and then I could support limiting debate to just the most viable.

I fail to see what good it does to weed out the lower-tier candidates when most of the “truly viable” candidates are horrible choices.

Democratic and Republican partisans don’t seem to realize that that job of the media isn’t to promote the establishment candidates. The media’s job is to cover the news. And when political mavericks offer a startlingly different view than the status quo view held by the esatblishment candidates, that’s news.

The Mainstream Media is treating Hillary Clinton much like it treated George W. Bush in 2000. Like Bush, Clinton has deep connections with her party, tons of money, and the built-in name recognition that comes from sharing the surname of a recent president.

It’s as if the media is having a countdown until Hillary becomes president and the campaign is simply a formality.

And Edwards is hardly any better. He claims to represent the “little guy.” But apparently, if one of the “little guys” decides to run for president, he shouldn’t be afforded the same opportunity to have his message heard.

1) It’s not sabotage.

Really, Holly? Maybe you should look again at what Clinton said in response to Edwards’ suggestion that they “cut the number” of candidates participating in the Democratic Presidential Debates:

No…you know…I…I…I think there was an effort by our campaigns to do that. It got…it got somehow…detoured. We’ve got to get back to it…because that’s all we’re going to do between now and then…is that.

If the leading candidate’s efforts to exclude rivals from the presidential debates isn’t sabotage, I don’t know what is.

2) I’d rather see the debates WITHOUT Gravel, Kucinich, Biden and Dodd.

Yep, Holly, that’s EXACTLY what we need…less alternatives.

On second thought, maybe we ought to just do anyway with the formalities and crown Hillary Clinton president now.

2) I’d rather see the debates WITHOUT Gravel, Kucinich, Biden and Dodd.