Party elites are wrong to bar candidates such as Mike Gravel from debates

One has to believe that supporters of these ‘lower-tier’ candidates on both sides of the political aisle are feeling great umbrage at these front runners looking to take their candidates out of any debate.  In fact, I would suspect that supporters are looking at these front runners seeing the sheer hubris on their part.

I do suspect that this is one of the primary reasons why some have come to abhor party politics.  It is when we see the positioning of certain candidates by the media and party leaders to be the ‘top-tier’ candidates over the critical issues that we all are facing.

In the MSNBC debate, former Senator Gravel confronted these Democratic candidates asking how they would plan to implement many of their programs such as universal health care given our current fiscal crisis.  I would say that is an honest and fair question.  As you will see each American presently owes thanks to the overspending of Washington elites, $29,369.97.  Some estimates are even higher than that figure.  What should astound and anger all is that “The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.30 billion per day since September 29, 2006”

Lastly, these are the real meat and potato issues, facts and yes figures being brought to the forefront due to these presidential debates by these ‘lower-tier’ candidates in order to wake up the citizenry.  So, it astounds me that anyone would back any call from anyone for others to be left out of these debates.  I would not call them ‘Wannabes’ but town criers whose sole purpose is to bring the facts to the American people.  Don’t we deserve that?

Author’s email address is, xmjmac@optonline.net

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