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The 10-Ring Circus Is Ending
By Dan McLaughlin Posted in 2008 | 2008 Presidential Campaign | Chris Dodd | Dennis Kucinich | Duncan Hunter | Joe Biden — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
For those of you who missed it elsewhere, just to summarize:
Duncan Hunter is focusing on New Hampshire and Wyoming (which caucuses Saturday) rather than pack it in after drawing 1% of the vote in Iowa, which he was largely ignoring. Presumably, Hunter will end his pointless campaign by next Wednesday and focus on positioning himself to be the next Secretary of Defense, a job for which he is well-qualified, although I'm not really sure who he would be liklely to endorse at this stage.
Joe Biden and Chris Dodd have returned to their day jobs in the Senate. Dodd's campaign never did get the wave of momentum he expected from announcing his candidacy on the Don Imus show.
Hunter, along with Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel, will be barred from the next round of debates hosted by ABC. ABC's press release doesn't even mention Alan Keyes. I haven't yet seen evidence that Keyes is even on the ballot in key states. Thus, the next debates will feature Huckabee, McCain, Romney, Giuliani, Thompson and Paul on the GOP side and Obama, Clinton, Edwards and Richardson on the Democrat side.
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Funny, we never hear about that one. I mean, if IA and NH get all the attention, why no love for WY?
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I know it will probably be ruled a matter of ABC's own business but I'm glad he's trying to see it through. Do any of you remember when Alan Keyes was forcefully ejected from the WSB debate in Atlanta, in 1996? Even his fellow candidates voiced their concerns about his exclusion. Keyes being nuts, in the view of many, was beside the point. It was a matter of principle, and Kucinich, for all the views he has that may be "out in the weeds," as Candy Crowley may say, is in fact the most honest and principled candidate in the Democrat field. He showed that again tonight on "Hannity & Colmes" when he explained the basis for his lawsuit to be added to the Texas primary ballot, displaying his pocket copy of the Constitution to assert that the Texas requirement to sign a letter of loyalty to a political party is, in fact, uncalled for.
Gravel would be the perfect protest candidate except for the fact that he, while serving as a senator, was instrumental in cutting off funds for operations in southeast Asia, treaty obligations notwithstanding.
And HWSNBN ought to be included in the Republican debate because his views would then be aired for what they are and would not stoke the fires in those driven by conspiratorial mindsets. Debates are all about letting the candidates hang themselves with their own words, if that's what they have coming.
We won't have to pointlessly listen to Hunter go on about the fence he built all by his lonesome. Also not having to listen to Tancredo go on about immigration and Keyes do the same with abortion will help the quality of the debate.