Posted on 08/15/2013 5:57:00 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Yeah, Mark Steyn would be fantastic, but I would like to see him as the moderator of the democrat primary debates even more.
It is time the democrat candidates have to answer real substantive constitutional questions instead of the soppy low hangers they are accustomed to getting from their media buddies.
Levin and Limbaugh——absolutely.
But please, not Hannity. He’d ask the same three or four questions in an endless loop.
“Do you believe Republicans want dirty air and water?”
“Do you think Republicans want to throw Grandma off the cliff?”
(football toss)
Levin or Limbaugh, YES; Hannity NO WAY.
Levin or Limbaugh.... Hannity just doesn’t have the killer instinct. He talks a good game but never quite goes in for the kill or starts saying my friend.
LOL
“Right” and “Left” imply a symmetry of some sort. The ideological divide is nothing of the sort. It is in fact a replay of the ancient Greek debate between the Sophists and the Philosophers. In its ancient Greek form, the debate is between “sophists” who claimed superior wisdom, and “philosophers” who eschewed any claim of superior wisdom but instead claimed only to love wisdom. Claiming to be wise produces very short, very unsatisfactory “debates” similar to the familiar “dialogue about race.” The latter is nothing more than a demand that the conservative white shut up and be lectured by the “liberal” white. Just so, a “debate” with the sophist who claims superior wisdom goes, “I and wise and you do not even claim to be wise. Therefore I am right and you are wrong. Shut up."The philosopher, OTOH, claims to love wisdom - and demands facts and logic as the pathway to understanding. Just so the “conservative” appeals to facts and logic while the “liberal” pounds the table. Pounding the table can be remarkably effective when you have an advantage to exploit. The “liberal” has the advantage of the “objective” journalist, who uses the claim of objectivity in precisely the same sense as the sophist uses the claim of wisdom. The claim of objectivity only proves that the claimant is not objective about himself, and the claim of wisdom is likewise an embarrassment to the claimant who is seriously challenged on facts and logic.Bill Bennett should be well qualified to play the “Philosopher” role in moderating a debate, and bring out the best in conservative candidates.
Of these three, Levin is the one that would make me sweat the most. He would not take for a second any talking points, non-topical answers. “Answer the question!!!”
Love it, that would be the best!
Its about time.
“It’ll be interesting to see how the ‘oh so tolerant’ handle being treated the way they treat others”
I strongly doubt that the left would agree to having anyone NOT from the left as a moderator. The right, however, is too lame to figure this out.
Indeed it would be funny to see the media heads pop.
We’re starting to understand liberal ‘goodness’ is a thin coating over a mile deep hole of filth...
Good point - it IS who they are... hadn't quite seen it in those terms. Thanks conservatism is compassion...
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