I wasn’t really serious, guys. 
At least about the new network. OTOH, I still bet the marketing and branding team @ FoxNews is shitting bricks about how this is dividing their (previously-believed monolithic) audience.
… And thank you, Qin.
Does that matter? What matters is that he’s leading and he’s been increasing his lead ever since calling into question the Canadian’s eligibility for office and his disgusting behaviour of attempting to turn Americans on each other with his vile “New York values” comment.
A wise and strong man picks his battles and does not blindly fall into traps.
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Nonsense. To sensible observers, it will be obvious that Trump is behaving Presidentially by effecting real change while the party hacks bicker over trivialities.
Don’t you mean TRUMP’s Nuggets of Incredible Wisdom!
Dubya? Keep in mind that Texas has a very weak governor by design.
My understanding is (B) and (C). Rebates (perhaps compensatory ad time later on) will be owed.
If you say so Qin. Meanwhile a DSeid prediction: Trump, despite being currently up by nearly 6 on Cruz and 21 on Rubio in the RCP Iowa rolling average will now lose Iowa handily and will drop his lead in New Hampshire significantly over the next week of polling.
But hey I’m an insensible observer who does not see disrespecting the voters running away from a debate as presidential … “true sensible observers” may be very rare.
I am still hopeful he will do well enough to last the distance and keep this circus going for a good long time. So I hope you are right and I am wrong!
Oh Qin the way it matters is that the poll that counts is the one taken on election day. As a general principle those who identify as very conservative, as Tea Party, and those who have caucused before, are more likely to make it to vote on caucus day than the other groups. Trump could flip that tradition (past performance is no guarantee of future results) but unlikely.
Trump apparently is too weak to be President, and he’s afraid he might lose the last debate. Here is the beginning of the end of his campaign. Good! This gives the non-Trump, non-Cruz candidates more opportunity to make their own (possibly still stupid) cases for being elected President.
It’s fair to point out that the Trump’s demographic are fucking idiots. If they like him capering like a mental deficient, that doesn’t mean it’s not worth laughing at.
Great call by Trump - he has some outstanding people working his campaigning; constantly shifting the ground, always retaining the spotlight, relentlessly defining the news cycle narrative: Everyone else is lost in the vapour trail.
Almost zero political content, of course 
But is this actually about politics …
He heard that politicians will be there, using big words to confuse his supporters.
Doing a veterans benefit instead is genius, IMO.
So the guy who’s going to stare down Putin, ISIS, North Korea, and Iran is afraid of Megyn Kelly? She must be tough as nails- let’s nominate her instead!
This is why Trump is such a sissy-ass wimp. Someone hurts his teeny-tiny feelings and he takes his ball and runs home crying and sucking his thumb. What’s gonna happen when Putin is mean to him. Is he gonna refuse to meet with him too? If this douche can’t handle Megan Kelly asking (actually pretty dumb but) tough questions, how’s he gonna handle a summit meeting?
This is just the break the McCain campaign has been waiting for!
Can I ask for a cite that Trump has ever thought about his responses?
I know it’s fun to bash Trump, but skipping one of the twelve debates isn’t quite the same as skipping an international summit.
Does anyone know whether Paul’s going to skip the debate again?
I think this move by Trump is pretty smart. He became the front-runner before these debates even began, and I don’t think any debate has either helped or hurt him that much. It’s not like he needs the exposure, either – people know who he is.
And I really don’t see it as Trump being scared to face Kelly, or having hurt feelings, or anything like that. It’s his way of retaliating: “I didn’t like how you talked to me, so I’m going to make your ratings go down.” (Of course, it remains to be seen whether ratings do go down, but I suspect they will. And as several people have pointed out upthread, he can say they go down either way.)
Easy. He can start making sense.
I think the easiest way for Trump to lose supporters is to apologize for the inflammatory things he’s said. I think a lot of people are drawn to the fact that he doesn’t back down when he receives pressure from other people to retract/apologize for his comments. If he begins apologizing, he loses the basis of his appeal.