Donald Trump Will Skip the Fox News Debate

[mary_bobo]

Yes, think Megyn is so anti Trump she shod have been pulled from this debate. She is not fair and balanced! I think too he was trying to make a point! Now she can claw at another candidate. And watch the ratings drop!

A reporter asking a probing question makes him/her anti? Give me a break. That is was reporters do. Fair and balanced, I don’t think any of them are. They all have their preferences as do we, and I imagine it is sometimes hard to conceal them. No candidate before, and hopefully not ever, has the right to dictate to a network who they can assign a story or a debate to. I have not decided on a candidate yet, but childish behavior as Trump has presented lately certainly does nothing to entice me. I prefer my candidates have a little class and tell us what and how they are going to fix things, and stop the personal negative comments about other candidates. I am sharp enough to make up my own mind.

 

[lax16]

I’d like concrete proof of the evolution, something more than a reference to a super-star child that wasn’t aborted.

I would like it too, but just about every day I find I have to take somebody at their word.

I take Hilary at her word.

I will have to take Trump (and Cruz and Rubio and Paul and Jeb…) at their word.

Again, I am not a fan of Trump. But I can’t vote for someone who is openly pro choice.
If Trump turns out to be a liar then so be it. He will have to go through life as a known liar.

 

[lax16]

A reporter asking a probing question makes him/her anti? Give me a break. That is was reporters do. Fair and balanced, I don’t think any of them are. They all have their preferences as do we, and I imagine it is sometimes hard to conceal them. No candidate before, and hopefully not ever, has the right to dictate to a network who they can assign a story or a debate to. I have not decided on a candidate yet, but childish behavior as Trump has presented lately certainly does nothing to entice me. I prefer my candidates have a little class and tell us what and how they are going to fix things, and stop the personal negative comments about other candidates. I am sharp enough to make up my own mind.

Megyn Kelly found out that there are some people out there who are not impressed with her tough-pretty-girl act. I know so many men that would comment on her tough sexy style and I think she thought it would go unchecked.

I did not care for her behavior at all. I do not care for Trump’s rudeness at all. No wonder they don’t get along - they are a lot alike.

 

[Iron_Donkey]

What did you think of Bill Clinton?

Not a fan, for reasons both similar and different. I am generally a conservative fellow, I just dislike our current front runner as a candidate. And most other politicians. If I got to just pick the president myself, it’d probably be Paul Ryan.

 

[Anthony2112]

Not a fan, for reasons both similar and different. I am generally a conservative fellow, I just dislike our current front runner as a candidate. And most other politicians. If I got to just pick the president myself, it’d probably be Paul Ryan.

Ryan is a RINO…who is now Obama’s golfing buddy.

At least you are consistent.

 

[Iron_Donkey]

Ryan is a RINO…who is now Obama’s golfing buddy.

At least you are consistent.

Yeah… no. It is not a requirement of being a republican that you constantly disrespect everyone you disagree with (though I can see how that viewpoint would draw you towards Trump). In any case, I don’t want to get much further off topic, so unless my dislike of Clinton and respect for Ryan have something to do with the topic at hand…?

 

[meltzerboy]

Ryan is a RINO…who is now Obama’s golfing buddy.

At least you are consistent.

Why do you consider Ryan a RINO? I think he is a mainstream Republican, more interested in economic issues than social ones. And if Ryan is a RINO, what is Trump?

 

[irishpatrick]

A reporter asking a probing question makes him/her anti? Give me a break. That is was reporters do. Fair and balanced, I don’t think any of them are. They all have their preferences as do we, and I imagine it is sometimes hard to conceal them. No candidate before, and hopefully not ever, has the right to dictate to a network who they can assign a story or a debate to. I have not decided on a candidate yet, but childish behavior as Trump has presented lately certainly does nothing to entice me. I prefer my candidates have a little class and tell us what and how they are going to fix things, and stop the personal negative comments about other candidates. I am sharp enough to make up my own mind.

Even if she was playing a “gotcha game” with her questions, why couldn’t Trump handle that? Does he somehow think he’ll get people on the left to ask him softball questions? What sort of President will he make if he can’t take the heat of a person asking gotcha questions?

I am of the mind that Trump does not want to be President. I believe this train (to his great surprise) is running out of control. He might find, with enormous shock on his part, that he will be moving into the White House next January. Of course, knowing how Trump has been, he would likely turn down living there–he’d just use the Oval Office as a meeting space.

 

[irishpatrick]

Megyn Kelly found out that there are some people out there who are not impressed with her tough-pretty-girl act. I know so many men that would comment on her tough sexy style and I think she thought it would go unchecked.

I did not care for her behavior at all. I do not care for Trump’s rudeness at all. No wonder they don’t get along - they are a lot alike.

I wonder, if she were a man, would you feel the same? There have been many, many men in the media who have acted much worse and I do not see an uproar over that. Maybe she had an agenda (only she knows that), and maybe she just doesn’t think Trump should be President, yet there have been plenty of men over the years with the same agendas.

She’s smart.

She’s pretty.

She’s confident.

She went after Trump–ooops, can’t have a woman doing that. But, had she done that to Hillary or Obama, Fox viewers would sing her praises.

We live in serious times–we need a President who won’t get angry just because he’s asked some questions he didn’t like.

 

[irishpatrick]

I know there are a lot of Trump supporters on this forum, and obviously you are entitled to your own views. I can say that I don’t think Trump would be a good President at all. I don’t trust his values, and I really don’t like how he treats people he disagrees with. Do that as President and we end-up with a war.

Let’s see. I don’t like how I was treated on Fox, so I’m going to take my ball and run away. Even if it is a ploy, its a really lousy way to handle things. It seems to never occur to him that some people want to put him through a rough nomination process so that he’s ready for the general election process.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

I wonder, if she were a man, would you feel the same? There have been many, many men in the media who have acted much worse and I do not see an uproar over that. Maybe she had an agenda (only she knows that), and maybe she just doesn’t think Trump should be President, yet there have been plenty of men over the years with the same agendas.

She’s smart.

She’s pretty.

She’s confident.

She went after Trump–ooops, can’t have a woman doing that. But, had she done that to Hillary or Obama, Fox viewers would sing her praises.

We live in serious times–we need a President who won’t get angry just because he’s asked some questions he didn’t like.

She may be all that.

She (and fellow moderators) asked only Trump a “gotya” question. Ask them all=no problem. Ask only 1 candidate=problem.

I will repeat. RWR skipped the last pre-Iowa debate in 1980.

 

[chero23]

As opposed to our current POTUS losing everything?

How does that relate to trump and his same adjectives.

Don’t bring up the Obama card, yes Obama has been a joke of late, but guess what, in less than a year, he’s out.

McCain today, actually a few moments ago said, that trump cannot pick who does debates. Kind of ironic considering how republicans complained like little kids in msnbc.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

How does that relate to trump and his same adjectives.

Don’t bring up the Obama card, yes Obama has been a joke** of late**, but guess what,** in less than a year, he’s out.**

McCain today, actually a few moments ago said, that trump cannot pick who does debates. Kind of ironic considering how republicans complained like little kids in msnbc.

So many more babies will die in that less than a year

 

[chero23]

So many more babies will die in that less than a year

There was a report that in bush administration more abortions occurred than clintons. I’ll have to look it up and post it. Just bc we have a republican president doesn’t mean that abortions will stop. Remember unfortunately, for it to cease a lot of things would have to happen in courts, in congress and states.

Trust me, abortion is horrible, but we’re in a government that has a lot of red tape.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

There was a report that in bush administration more abortions occurred than clintons. I’ll have to look it up and post it. Just bc we have a republican president doesn’t mean that abortions will stop. Remember unfortunately, for it to cease a lot of things would have to happen in courts, in congress and states.

Trust me, abortion is horrible, but we’re in a government that has a lot of red tape.

Having a Dem one will certainly not stop them, though.

We live in a fallen world. No party is perfect. But the Dems as currently constituted are orders of magnitude worse on abortion.

 

[chero23]

Having a Dem one will certainly not stop them, though.

We live in a fallen world. No party is perfect. But the Dems as currently constituted are orders of magnitude worse on abortion.

And I conquer no arguments from my part.

 

[sallybutler]

Obama refuses to go on Fox also, Trump can do the same. Thanks. Lots of people don’t like Fox remember, most Democrats here? You hear about it here daily. Frankly I don’t like CNN or MSN either. Its a free will choice, freedom of conscience. Besides he knows it will help his rating and put all the attention on him till the debate. Roger Ailes should stick to the point journalism and not propaganda and they wouldn’t be in this situation.

Its Trumps call.

Obama has been interviewed several times by O’Reilly, as has Bernie. Rand, Trump, Christie & Santorum have been on MSNBC. Everyone else tends to stick to their own corners.

 

[irishpatrick]

She may be all that.

She (and fellow moderators) asked only Trump a “gotya” question. Ask them all=no problem. Ask only 1 candidate=problem.

So what? Trump has been the front runner for a good amount of time–the front runner typically gets hit the hardest. Yet, even it was unfair, so what?

 

[gilliam]

If you want to understand what Trump is doing by avoiding the debate either read The Art of the Deal or read what Rush said today. A transcript of what Rush said is here:
rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/01/27/trump_refuses_to_play_by_the_rules

By the way, Trump linked to this transcript in a tweet today endorsing it.

So if you want to know what is going on, read Rush.

 

[irishpatrick]

So many more babies will die in that less than a year

Exactly. So few people have clear sight on these things. The world is a literal mess, and innocents are continuing to be slaughtered under the lie of being moral just because its legal, yet millions concern themselves with Trump’s childish antics.

I would hope that conservatives would take Trump not being there as a golden opportunity to learn more about the other candidates. Trump’s presence tends to take the oxygen out of every debate. I’d like to hear the other candidates give good and sound (real) answers to questions and challengers without the distractions.