09-16-2015, 02:38 PM
(09-16-2015, 12:56 PM)Duchess Wrote: I'm looking forward to this!
Me too.
One really good thing about Trump being in the race, for me, is that his presence and level of public support has lit a fire under the other contenders.
Some that were assumed to be "in" because of the big money backing they've secured from special interests (Bush, Walker, Rubio, Cruz) are now in survival mode and really working to appeal directly to voters. Good.
I'd like to see the moderators encourage debate on actual policy issues and not only personal/character ones though.
Maybe the topic of gay marriage and the Kim Davis circus will be broached? I hope so. There are several GOP candidates who have expressed a clear understanding of the Constitution's separation of church and state for governmental agents, in relation to individual/private religious freedom and speech. I'd like to see them have an opportunity to address the issue on the debate stage. They do not support Kim Davis.
In my opinion, Huckabee and Cruz have given the whole GOP a bad rap by association because their Swaggart-like support of Kim Davis and their off-base comments about the role of the Supreme Court got so much press.