Posted on 10/30/2014 3:51:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Actually having a lefty moderate the R primary debates was a good thing...Stephanapolus spilled the beans on the “war on women” strategy...but a bunch of candidates were too lame to figure it out even after Limbaugh talked about it for weeks.
Instead they got the advisers and potential future staffs of the candidates to appear on a debate dedicated to one particular topic. Each team had a captain who would assign team members to make a case or a rebuttal. There was direct cross questioning, rebuttal and counter-rebuttal of team members
For example, the debate on domestic and financial issues had Dr, Arthur Laffer as captain of the Reagan team, and he would signal team members to jump in if he didn’t want to handle the question or the rebuttal himself. One of my cherished memories is of Dr. Laffer just eviscerating Mitch Rogovin, who was John Anderson’s team captain, on financial questions.
The foreign policy debate was a classic. Al Haig was captain of the Reagan team with Paul Nitze as his right tackle. Haig’s team ripped Carter’s and Anderson’s teams to shreds. Paul Warnke, who was on Carter’s team, just slunk away at the end.
I learned more from these debates than I did from the candidate’s appearances at the staged non-debates. What happened, unfortunately, was that the two parties decided not to repeat this in future years because it was too freewheeling and not scripted enough.
I’d like to see it done again.
Debates, si! Moderators, No!!!
That is sine qua non! If Republicans keepp having open primaries they'll eventually nominate Thad Cochrane for POTUS!
And they will agree to marxist facist journaists to host the debate once again, idiots!
Why did I think of an old Bill Cosby sketch on the Revolutionary War?
“The Americans can hide behind rocks and trees, the British must wear red and march in a straight line”
We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the presidential nominating process in the GOP is completely rigged.
Once you know a game is rigged, why play?
Geez, he was president for eight years and ABC still can't spell it correctly. Really??
'What difference could it possibly make at this particular time, anyhoo?' - H.R.Clintoon
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