[Alberta's Child]

That’s because it was a real debate instead of a television production.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

To: SeekAndFind

>>> The debate started with 18 minutes for each man to speak and then time for rebuttal. It also included a cross-examination style question and answer between the two and several questions from the audience.

I’m impressed. An actual debate instead of a pseudo-debate such as what our presidential candidates engage in.

12 posted on January 31, 2014 at 10:59:55 PM EST by oblomov [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse]

That’s because it was a real debate instead of a television production.

. . . and that is because the conservative wasn’t so desperate to have the debate that he was willing to accept an intrusive “neutral moderator” whose politics were indistinguishable from those of his opponent.

My fond hope for the Internet is that it gets big enough that a conservative can challenge his opponent to have actual debates on the Internet - and that opponent would be placed under real pressure to accept.

You get to having a half-dozen actual debates - and that is entirely feasible if you don’t bring the candidates face-to-face for all of them - and you will see emotional arguments and sound bites start to wilt under the pressure of facts and logic.

We can dream . . .

Actually, such a system could be instituted for the Republican primaries, even now. Be a great shake-down test of the procedure, and conceivably it could delegitimate the “neutral moderator” debate joint news conferences favored by the journalists for the general campaign.