Thoughts On Trump's Fox Debate Decision
 

Dear Guests:

What are your personal views on Tump's decision not to attend the Iowa Debate on 1/28/16?

What are your thoughts about Megan Kelly's role in all of this?

How do you believe the other presidential candidates will respond/react?

How will those voters not yet committed to Trump react?

How will leaders both domestic and foreign react to all of this?

Was this a smart move by Trump?

What is the smart move for the other presidential candidates?

Was Fox News smart to have let this issue fester?

Should Trump have appeared and just responded to any of Megn Kelly's
comments as inappropriate and he refused to answer...offering others pertinent information?

Personal Best Regards:

I don't think that this is going to help him any. As a matter of fact, I believe he is getting tired and making quite a few mistakes. I believe we are going to start seeing his poll numbers go down and Rubio's going up. I may be wrong, but I think that Cruz may have peaked out. I think that we are going to see Rubio gain in the home stretch. Rubio can get the GOP establishment to back him, as well as the Independent voter. He is moderate in my opinion but has the best chance to win. I also believe that there are many Democrats that will not scream so much if he is elected, because he is not so divisive as other candidates. Only the radical left and right will have a problem with Rubio.

Trump would build a southern wall and make Mexico pay for it and then he would kick ISIS azz, but he's afraid of a lady TV reporter?

Typical Con

I have been fan of Megan Kelly, yet her questioning of Donald Trump in the earlier debate in my opinion was not appropriate for that forum. Should he have appeared in the upcoming debate? I have mixed emotions. The media has had over a year to analyze, re-analyze, re-re analyze the campaign, so on a daily basis with their conflicting poles, depending on the Network, and many time biased reporting, we have been over saturated with election pre-game. This upcoming debate will not offer us any new insights into the candidates views, but will offer the candidates the opportunity to state the other's lies and switched stances on issues, then the accused states that is inaccurate while accusing the other of the same. We cannot tell where the truth is and the media who should take these confrontations, break them down, and tell us exactly what the truth is, fails to do so the majority of time. Will this non-appearance hurt Donald Trump? No. Because of the public's un-relenting disdain for politics and media discomfort Trump still and will resinate as the solution for the political disease that is so desperately ravishing our great country.

Rubio seems to be the best candidate in the GOP field who can contest with the Democrats.

Omg
 

Boo-hoo! That mean Megan Kelly is going to hurt me! Are you kidding me!
Put on your big boy pants!:cryin2::cryin2::cryin2:

Vote Trump. He works very well with anybody that agrees with him.

I was beginning to wonder if we actually had a thread that was going to continue with real discussions.

Unfortunately that has been dashed with the first of the schoolyard entries.
Is it because there is a lack of knowledge on the subject matter? ANY subject!

The debate would have pitted #1 against #2 for the Iowa championship match. #'s 3,4,5, and 6 would have been the undercard cage match. Ratings would have been through the roof. Now very few will watch.

Trump is a crybaby. He is use to getting his own way. When he doesn't, he cries that he is not being treating fairly. He has done this with both the RNC, and Megan Kelly. Morning Joe played some of the clips of Megan Kelly pointing out how the media specially MSNBC, and CNN treat Trump. They described it as attacking Trump.

It was quite the contrary. She hit the nail right on the head with the clips. She pointed out that both MSNBC, and CNN conducted half an hour plus interviews with Trump. These interviews are played over and over in their entirety through out the day on their stations, and the interviews are discussed for days. They don't this with any of their other candidates. Since the other candidates aren't getting equal treatment, does Trump think that this is fair? There were several other items that she brought forward that held Trump in a bad light, but were correct. I don't watch her, but the clips were far from an attack on Trump. What they were was an attack on the unequal coverage Trump gets on news stations compared to the other candidates.

Trump is trying to play the victim. Megan Kelly doesn't like me. That might be the case. However, Megan treating him unfairly is total nonsense.

Another problem Trump has with Megan Kelly is she is attractive. He can't belittle her looks. His only attack is she is being mean to me. She is not being fair. The only way that in Trump's mind that you can be fair with him, is agreeing with everything he puts forward.

Trump not appearing in the debates will not hurt him with his followers. Trump has nothing to lose. If Fox News wants to start a war with Trump, they can't lose either. The majority of their viewers are Republicans. Where are these viewers going to go to get their news, if they don't like the way Trump is treated? Right now it appears to be WWE. Both Trump. and Fox News are play acting in their distain for each other. The whole thing is being staged to get more coverage by the other news outlets. They will makeup, and Trump will be on the stage tomorrow. This whole flap is a side show. This was put forward by someone on Morning Joe, also. Time will tell.

This whole election process is too long. It just plain sucks.

Hate to say but I think he cut his throat. You cant hide from nasty people. Meaning Kelly.

I just can't understand how people can support Trump. He could never do half of the stuff he says he'll do. All he would do is have press conferences blaming everyone for being unfair to him (think Congress). He could never deal with international affairs, nor would any of our allies deal with him. For sure, under a Trump presidency, we would be an isolated nation.

I only hope that a reasonable candidate will emerge soon. My money is on Rubio to emerge as a moderate that can have a chance.

Finally, Trump's candidacy is just a reality show. He says anything to "shock" us, which gets him more free airtime on the news channels.

Never thought of her as being "nasty" but maybe you know something that I haven't seen.

I believe that Trump is tired and wants a break. He has been hitting the circuit hard and fast as well as attempting to keep up on his social lifestyle. He was bound to crash sooner or later. Better to avoid the debate, than to attend and then hose it up. I believe that it will hurt him a bit, but he has a cushion as far as the lead is concerned. Cruz is getting desperate and has probably peaked. If he doesn't get it under control, he is going to say something more to hurt himself.

Rubio is steadily moving forward. Right now, Rubio is the best choice, in my opinion.

I love our country. My son & brother in law are presently serving our country. I have skin in the game. I would do anything legal to bring our country back to a place where these two guys who are deployed and are in a dangerous area could have a commander & chief that they can feel good about calling their boss. I am limited to my spoken word to help the correct person get elected. I believe if you are playing football you shouldn't spike the ball till your in the endzone so I'm upset with my candidate for not going to the debate. I figured somewhere along the line that he would say something to big for even me to reason away. The shooting someone on Park Ave remark was bad and no debate may be worse, time will tell. Imagine being a billionaire, I don't think I would give a hoot what anyone thought about my decisions. These rich people think in ways that you & I can't even imagine. Their daily struggle to shelter and feed themselves and their families has been overcome leaving them time to think beyond what we can comprehend. Time will tell but go Trumster. I can't imagine it being anyone else rite now. Oh I would give anything for him to be my family's boss.

Why Keep Debating?
 

When I first heard that Trump wouldn't attend the next debate I thought it made him look bad. But when I thought it over I realized that he doesn't need any more debates, he's already at the top and surging. A debate could hurt him but not help him so why take the chance. The debate is only good for the people that are desperate to get ahead.

Shrewd.