Sunday, December 27, 2009

Charleston hosting GOP debate, Joe

Posted by Greg Hambrick on Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:35 AM

There's been some heavy campaigning over the last few months, but the opening round of the gubernatorial primary race will begin Jan. 1. Voters will have finally finished the Christmas ham leftovers and grown tired of their new toys, they'll be ready to take a look at the crowded field of 10 contenders.

The five Republicans looking to replace Gov. Mark Sanford will meet for the first time in the new year at a S.C. Republican Party debate in Charleston on Jan. 28. The event at the Memminger Auditorium will be hosted by MSNBC's token conservative Joe Scarborough.

"It is great that the first Republican debate of 2010 will be held here because Charleston is a microcosm of the whole state," says organizer Mallory Factor. "The path to Republican victory in November is through Charleston."

It should be noted that this microcosm supported Barack Obama and Democratic Congressional candidate Linda Ketner in 2008.

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This should be good. Each candidate will have to pledge to be further to the right then the next. Each will have to vow to cut taxes while improving government services because that is what republicans do. Each will have to be more religious then the next and fight against christian predjuce where none exsists. Each will vow to protect the constitution while taking away certain freedoms. Each will vow to help public education by destoying it. Each will have to fight to losen gun laws more then the next. Each will have to out teabag the other. It should be an interesting evening

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Posted by charlestowne2 on December 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM

How do we get tickets??

Thanks,
William Jones, Port Royal

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Posted by DocJones on December 27, 2009 at 10:37 PM

It should be noted that Scarborough is one of the two token conservatives at MSNBC (the other is Pat Buchanan) and somehow the liberal cable news outlet still has better quality, more solid traditional (i.e. non-neocon) conservatives in those two, than all of the schmucks at FOX News combined (Sean Hannity? William Kristol? Karl Rove? Newt Gingrich? Really?). Go figure.

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Posted by Jack Hunter on December 27, 2009 at 11:03 PM

What time on the 28th is the debate? Have they released tickets yet? If so, how do we get them.

Thank you,
Craig Knowlton, Charleston

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Posted by Craig S. Knowlton on January 18, 2010 at 5:06 PM
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