MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2015
And Only The Elite Eight Candidates Will Be On The Main Stage
Hurley the Historian says the fourth 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates debate will be Tuesday, November 10, live from the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hurley explains, that venue has a loaded history:
On October 14, 1912, candidate Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest by at close range by saloon keeper John Schrank while greeting the public in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel. Instead of heading to the hospital, he continued to the Milwaukee Auditorium (now the Milwaukee Theater) to deliver a 90-minute campaign speech.
In front of a horrified audience and with the bullet lodged in his rib, he pulled out a bloodied 50-page speech with bullet holes in it from his coat pocket and declared, “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose.”
And you thought Donald Trump hyped his appearance on Saturday Night Live. Can you imagine how our TV News Networks would handle such an event today?
Tomorrow night, Fox Business Network hopes to be the “Anti-CNBC” after several campaigns blasted the moderators for losing control and asking “gotcha” questions – while RNC Chairman Reince Priebus dismissed it as a “crap sandwich.” That’s why FBN’s moderators Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo insist they are aiming to be quite different from CNBC. “My goal is to make myself invisible,” Cavuto, one of three moderators for prime time debate, said in an interview last week. “That I’m not the issue … That we’re not the issue. The answers to what we’re raising will become the issue.”
You’ll notice only the Elite Eight Republican Presidential Candidates will be on the Main Stage for the 9 O’clock Performance. Because they failed to meet the 2.5% polling cutoff, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have been knocked down to the 7 p.m. Early Show, and Lindsey Graham and George Pataki have been eliminated from both stages. A field of four will debate for an hour. After Huckabee and Christie take their places at new lecterns, two of the usual suspects will join them: Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum.
In Columbus, Buckeye Bureau Chief Gerry Manders says everybody’s noticed how Ohio Governor John Kasich will be in his usual next to last position on the Main Stage and many people are waiting for Ohio’s Governor to say something really stupid after this debate, just like last time when he said those biased CNBC moderators did a really good job. Maybe Kasich will repeat what he said in Iowa last week, when he said, “I’m kind of like Jesus, only better.”
No wonder this afternoon’s Kasich for America campaign’s big send-off rally before the fourth Republican primary debate in Milwaukee will be held at the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago, instead of Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
