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To: Opinionated Blowhard

This should be grounds for a formal complaint with the Debate Commission. New standardes for any moderator must be put in place. These last 2 debates have had any semblance of fairness destroyed. Liberal bias by a moderator is particularly onorous. The Republican committee must demand an end to any form of advocacy moderator. The role, if there is to be a moderator, must be absolutely limited to a set number of questions submitted by both sides of the debate, asked in turn until they are exhausted. The role of the moderator other than reading the questions submitted by the debators is to keep time on the candidates. Both prior moderators failed to do so and granted substantial benefits to the democrat candidate.
In truth, the whole structure of the so called debates is belittling and demeaning to people we intend to entrust open dialogue with world leaders. It smacks of high school debate slub tactics in which the teacher applies rigid standatds of political correctness to the student’s responses.
If the Republican leadership had any sense of principle or dignity tit would demand an end to this outrageous sideshow behavior.
We need 2 candidates sitting down across from each other having a conversation, nothing less is dignified or worthy of the high office they intend to hold.


52 posted on 10/18/2012 2:42:45 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
"This should be grounds for a formal complaint with the Debate Commission."

Who are the "Debate Commission"?? Once upon a time, the debates were overseen by the "League of Women Voters", which was by no means neutral.

55 posted on 10/19/2012 8:11:01 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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