A sound point and it just goes to show that there needs to be an end to the "mainstream media" monopoly over presidential debates.
In the future the GOP needs to say to the dems "look, we'll do two debates. You pick any one of your favorite left wing ABCCBSNBCPBS network anchors to do one and we'll pick Fox to do the other."
The alternative, which I know will never happen though I personally think it would be ideal and the fairest, is to bring them both on in a Hannity and Colmes type of a format. Hannity can rip Kerry and Colmes throws him softballs. Colmes can rip Bush and Hannity throws him softballs. But at the very minimum we know exactly where the questions are coming from and exactly how they're being answered. No more of this pretended "neutral moderator" BS because the moderators in this debate and I venture to predict the next two are all open Kerry partisans.
Exactly. After all, it's the liberal media that keeps telling us over and over and over that we are a 50/50 country. So from now on, we want 50/50 lib/conservative moderators for these debates.
I disagree.
I think the moderator should be a moderator and no more. He should ask questions given to him at the beginning of the debate. The DNC and RNC need to compose the questions of an equal number and hand them to the moderator just minutes before the debate.