Rather than waste increasingly valuable time on the gamesmanship of politics, lets just cut to the chase and stop this nonsense. Two drowning men are a dangerous rescue.
To: Sean, Henry, Stuart, Reince, Sharon, Suzie, Bill, Brooke, John, Roy, Chris, Tom, Amy, Rena, Eric, Charlie, Cathy, Luke, Mitch, Mitt, Haley, Rick, Rex, Frank, et al
You Guys Are Looking Desperate, Pathetic. (And Silly)
First, don’t stay at the same flippin’ hotels; don’t use your real names when you register (all we have to do is call the switchboard), and for goodness sake don’t run up pre-debate bar tabs (Tuesday night) thinking just because it’s never been noted before, it won’t be now. Second, don’t meet in the same transparent locales to plan these insufferable constructs. It’s getting silly – even Houston is not THAT big a town.
Sean, you also need to add a pre-production meeting with the hands-on staff to get much better production controls over the live camera feeds. Those accidental crowd pans show too much of the audience. You are making it too easy to spot the team (insiders).
Next, even the disconnected political followers are not stupid enough not to notice the missing commercial breaks which come as an outcome of the script – An hour and 30 minutes straight? Trump already predicted this months ago and injected the ad revenue into the discussion. C’mon, everyone knows CNN would not miss the income opportunity, and as a consequence “who is funding the enterprise” becomes a question again revealing national party motive, agenda and transparency.
Skipping commercial breaks just because you’ve pre-planned the original onslaught to last a specific amount of uninterrupted time (90 minutes) does not help you retain an “un-produced” optic. It might have sounded good on paper, but it works against you because it’s too obvious (even traveling media noticed it).
Personal Request – For heavens sake don’t let the Rubio screecher/screamer sit at the next one, she’s gobsmakingly annoying and everyone hears it. Either tell her to pipe down next time, or, better yet – vet the team so the tickets are kept out of the hands of the most rabid followers.
https://twitter.com/NolteNC/status/703102220108062720
Subtlety is your friend if you are going to try and pull this off. Think about that for Detroit, and allow Bill to guide the effort for number eleven; he’s better at pulling it off.
We have to ask the question: who came up with: “the candidates are auditioning to join our Republican party” talking point? C’mon Reince, seriously? You could just wait for the convention to display the ridiculous. Doing so now just allows everyone to discuss the upcoming BS.
Candidate Donald Trump won this debate in the first few minutes when he said to YOU:
“I am reaching voters across the board and we are creating a broader and more inclusive Republican party.” “We are rebuilding the Republican Party”…
This is an insurgency. We have found our leader.
Deal with it !!
ps. We’ll see you in Detroit (after we win Texas)