Mr. Oxendine is a shallow, rudderless, unqualified career hack who has now morphed into a gross & distasteful caricature of himself.

After plagiarizing every line his opponents have invented, and glomming onto positions even his own team of paid sycophants couldn’t grasp if they spent the next 30 years in remedial classes on Constitutional Law – this rodeo clown is about to flame out all on his own.

Rumor has it that a Sheriff’s assembly in south Georgia simply told this bozo to sit down & be quiet because he had nothing to say and nothing they wanted to hear.

Then, a couple of weeks ago an attendee at a public candidate forum reportedly asked the fake a direct question about the so-called “FairTax” and Johnny Boy didn’t have a clue.

Macho is right – NOBODY is following this hack. He’s got nothing to offer, but has spent a pile proving it.

The establishment wants Handel because she’ll broker the surrender of Georgia’s liberty to the federal leviathan

The people want McBerry because he won’t.

Oxyclean is just a sick and sad diversion in tight pants.

Excuse me while I find something to gouge my eyes out.

Someone started early.

Adam Lambert comes to mind.

I can see him right now with a glass of wine , his manicured nails and legs crossed at the hips asking the guys at the tablen drinking Buds if they coon hunt.

I wrote a simple Java program on a laptop that displayed a countdown and played a loud buzzer sound when it hit zero. I think a good ol’ air horn would work wonders, though.

Buzzer sound: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/wop/sounds/Buzzer.wav

2. Have a really really loud buzzer and keep it going until the offender looks like they have been cowed into submission when they go over their 45 seconds. That’s entertainment for YouTube right there. Dignity? What’s that?

3. I agree that you should only invite those who have filed their paperwork. Low polling numbers is often at this stage just a lack of name recognition, so it’s important to include those people with low polling numbers to make sure they get some name recognition.

4. Ratchet up the knob as we get closer to the primaries, so that low polling pols get dropped from the debates if they haven’t met certain numbers. In other words, right now, it should be open to anyone who filed, but in a month, increase it to 3% polling, then 6% polling and so on, topping out at 15%. That gets everyone to put some skin in the game if they want to stay in the game.

Of course, I’m not in charge.

I think the only way to do it, while still imperfect, is have a pre-screening process by the host of the debate. Call and talk with the candidate one on one. Do some research.

Poll numbers, financial numbers, etc. are not a good litmus test. Too many variables.

I agree, there might need to be a cutoff. For instance, in my race, there have been 10 or 11 candidates announce. Only 7 have filed with the FEC, and 9 are campaigning. Should all 11 be invited to a debate? Just the 9 campaigning, or the 7 who have filed?

Personally, I think only those that have filed the paperwork with the FEC (in my race) should do so. It does not cost money to do so, maybe $20 in postage, paper, time, etc. To me, it is a discredit to the voters that come to the events. Recently there was an event in Gilmer County where 9 candidates were present, only 4 or 5, at that time, had filed with the FEC. In the two hour event, the citizens got to ask 3 or 4 questions total. Once each politician gives their allotted 2 minute answer, plus the three that always go over their time by at least double, it took almost 30 minutes to answer one question. Consider the 4 minute opening speeches, 3 or 4 minute closing remarks, the citizens really learn very little about a candidate’s views after over 2 hours of hot air.

Now, I disagree with Ox’s barameter, (I expect a phone call any minute now telling me to stop bashing Mr. Oxendine). If a candidate has followed basic campaign law, filed the proper paperwork, then I don’t think low polling numbers should be a reason to omit him from the debate.

Any thoughts about what rules or customs SHOULD be used to determine which “candidates,” pre-qualifying date, should be invited to such debates?

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