Posted on 10/29/2015 9:28:05 AM PDT by Isara
Ted Cruz Discusses the #CNBCGOPDebate with Sean Hannity (video)
Sen. Ted Cruz suggested Wednesday that Republican primary voters should be the ones moderating GOP debates, rather than liberal TV hosts who were roundly criticized during Wednesday night's Republican debate on CNBC.
"Why is it that we keep having debates where the moderators ... no one in their right minds thinks any of the moderators actually will vote in a Republican primary?" Cruz asked on Sean Hannity's show on Fox. "In my view, Republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary."
Cruz tossed out Hannity's name as one possibility, along with conservative talk radio show hosts Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh.
Hannity replied, "I'm in," adding that he could speak for the other two men that they would be in as well.
"I'd ask Reince Priebus," Hannity said of the Republican National Committee chairman, who himself voiced his displeasure with the CNBC moderators shortly after the debate.
Republican primary voters "would love to hear that debate," Cruz told him.
"It wouldn't be a 'gotcha' debate," Hannity said, to which Cruz responded, "Exactly."
In the Wednesday night's debate, Cruz took the CNBC moderates to task, saying the questions they asked "illustrate why the American people don't trust the media." His monologue was greeted by much applause by the audience.
He continued his harsh critique of the mainstream media on Hannity's show.
"We've seen now over and over again where the media … they are the Democrats' cheerleaders, and in these debates … every question is an insult, every question is asking one Republican to attack another Republican," he said.
Or even the first three truck drivers who pull into a randomly selected pump on a given day . . .
These debate moderators are nothing more than crazy village elders with baskets of rotting fruit and vegetables that they are throwing at the candidates to entertain their followers.
Democrats would never agree to appear before a panel of conservative moderators. Yet every Republican insists to be include in a grilling by leftist inquisitors. Insanity.
AGREED!
Too true.
Notice that Cruz didn’t say “Fox News moderators”. They were as bad or worse than those last night.
I would do away with the moderators all together and have a time keeper. I’d have a focus question, maybe 2. Each Candidate would have to answer it, and then 2 other candidates would get to ask a follow-up question about the candidates answer, and get to respond to it.
Then the next guy would get in the circle, and the process would be repeated.
Be careful what you ask for Senator...
I think all of us have at least one issue about which we have doubts regarding every single one of the candidates. For example, Cruz is my first choice, but I have questions about his willingness to deal with illegal immigration, as well as his support for the expansion of the H-1B visa program.
I suspect that only Trump has the testicular fortitude to organize a new debate format that bypasses the RNC.
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