The 2.5% Rule...What a Stupid Criteria for Debate Eligibility...

   What ever happened to each candidate having an equal voice in their quest for elected office?  Well according to the GOP, having less than 2.5% of popular support disqualifies a candidate from participating in the next GOP presidential debate.  I know that there is an effort by the GOP to reduce the field of candidates from fifteen to a select few. Not for anything, but there are twenty names beibg floated for Speaker of the House. Well what do you expect from a party that had as many as 17 declared presidential candidates for crying out loud.  More on that later. 

     Has anyone forgotten to allow the process of Democracy to play itself out? I mean look at the Democrats more or less pushing John "The Annointed" Kerry adter his Iowa win in 2004. There were other viable candidates such as Retired General Wesley Clark (I thought he would've made an outstanding president by the way) who were drowned out that year.  What happenes if Trump suddenly takes a dive in the polls and no other viable candidate is able to prove themselves to be the nominee due to the GOP forcing candidates out of the race? This would give watered-down a completely new meaning.  What if Trump slips and there is no further reduction in the number of candidates? Someone can step up and prove themselves. Just throwing it out there.

As for the Speaker of the House debacle that I briefly touched off on earlier. Twenty candidates does not show variety, it shows further indecisiveness when it comes to the direction of a politcal party. Vetting the viability of a candidate? How about letting the voting process to play itself out. This coming from a political party who in the 2000 presidential election tampered with votes in Florida and God knows how many other states. Um George Clooney you can use this as a premise for Ocean's Fourteen.  You know graduate from robbing to tampering votes. What a sad commentary when it comes to the direction that Democracy is heading in. What happened to allowing every candidate to make their case for you vote...what ever happened to allowing every vote to count? I'm just the son of a Korean War Veteran...My dad fought in Korea to allow Democracy to continue on in the USA. He fought so we can be free and that I have the right to ask these questions without the threat of being jailed or executed.

Tom