With due respect, you could not be more wrong. It did not make for a more “professional” debate. It made for an awkward little food fight where the enemy - liberals in Obama’s administration and the media -were ignored.
The passion of the Republican base IS A LEGIT part of this election, and to “remove” that passion artificially actually made for a phony debate, not a real one.
Moreover, if Newt skips the debate, so will the viewers. He will not “be missed.” The debate will “be missed” because few would watch it. IT’s like TV ratings for a golf tournament without Tiger Woods. Zero.
agree NBC did this on purpose to take Newt out and so the crowd would not cheer when Newt called the idiotic bias liberal Williams out.
It has to be the most pathetic boring debate I have seen and boy there has been some awful debates.
All Williams wanted was for Romney to attack Newt and not let Newt go back after him and bring up the MSM messiah.
Pathetic questions, pathetic debate and the crowd should have just ignored Williams and that dozy local so called reporter
I was about to respond, read your comments and thought I wrote it myself.......
what conservatives need to know is the God given opportunity just handed to them.
Of over 7 billion on our planet, the only enemies of one Newt Gingrich reside in Congress and are from his own party.
Let that just sink in a minute
.......if ever there was a time to purge congress of those POS rinos it is now and it is NEWT.
Upon election Newt would have 3 years to battle and expose the country club swine all the while the united Tea Party front exampled by the likes of Tea Party Tribune, United West.org etc etc. would find, fund and front line candidates for conservative perusal.
As to a game plan, a measured known outcome, and saving conservatism,we have a God given plan
I call it providence
You are absolutely right - you understand art - too many on our side are literal-minded.
—With due respect, you could not be more wrong. It did not make for a more “professional” debate. It made for an awkward little food fight where the enemy - liberals in Obama’s administration and the media -were ignored.—
If the media is boo-proof, they are perfectly free to follow their agenda. The crowd can serve to keep the interogators in check, or at least voice our disapproval with them.
I agree completely with your comments. However, I believe Newt would be very happy to debate without audience participation if the questions asked were substantive instead of Williams’ feeble attempt to start a “fight on the playground”.
I would rather none of the candidates debate on networks that won’t ask questions that are focused on the inept president currently in office and how each candidate would govern differently.
I was watching the clock and there wasn’t a question of any substance or relevance asked until after the first commercial break. Disgusting !
EODGUY
As if the Lincoln-Douglas debates were this nice, neat academic thing, where people sat on their hands. Those were noisy affairs, and the reporters had to be right near the speakers to get to hear them.