Posted on 11/08/2015 8:16:07 PM PST by Kaslin
I would settle for a prohibition against asking anyone to know the names of foreign leaders with oddball names, and that all moderators for democrat debates be from Fox.
And then the candidates should lose all financial incentives to run to weed out the ones just padding the retirement via contributions.
How about they just have debates at County Fairs and other live venues, all over the country? We sure as heck don’t need the ‘journalists’ to moderate these. Nobody watches TV these days anyway, and to pay them to mock the opposite party’s candidates just doesn’t sit right with me.
Why not invite the Smithsonian Institution to arrange a debate, with a panel made up of Nobel Prize recipients?
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That’s laughable. The Nobel Prize has long ago lost any meaning. Obama has one, let him moderate?
Who should moderate instead? Why not enlist some of the nation's finest teachers to pose questions to the candidates? Why not invite the Smithsonian Institution to arrange a debate, with a panel made up of Nobel Prize recipients? Why not recruit presidential historians say, Edmund Morris, Amity Shlaes, and Michael Beschloss to put would-be chief executives through their paces? For that matter, why not a debate in which the candidates are interrogated by former presidential nominees? Surely voters would be at least as interested in watching Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis grill the presidential contestants as in seeing Gwen Ifill or Bret Baier do it.
How would any of those boobs be different from the boobs we have now?
. . . and allow us to toss vegetables at them.
I think there are certainly better options than what we currently have but the ones proposed by this author seem a step down rather than a step up.
Moderators NOT REQUIRED or DESIRED.
One word questions, with each candidate allowed xx minutes to answer, with a counter by each opposing candidate for xx minutes.
Proceeded by opening statements for xx minutes, closing statements for xx minutes.
One word questions...
Economy? Comments please...
Immigration. Comments please...
National Security. Comments please...
Education. Comments please...
Simple enough?
Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are.
It's also completely accurate.
Thanks for that image.
Liberal doo-gooder and one-worlder Gates? Oh dear Lord, not Gates.
You forgot a few. I can’t watch TV as I do not have one, but does everyone at the WA Compost desereve the list? My first pick would be that rabid liberal, Chris “chillface” Cillizza. While you are at it, why not include a few radio hosts, namely Hugh “the Duane bashing and feckless humor” Hewitt? Sounds good. Maybe I should get a TV——NOT!!!
Every one of the ideas floated ignores those most affected - We the People. Why not debates moderated by randomly selected people across this geographic entity?
>>The most acclaimed candidate debates in American history the Lincoln-Douglas encounters of 1858 had nothing in common with modern presidential debates: No questions from moderators, no 60-second time limits, no ricocheting from topic to topic, no real-time reaction from focus groups. No pre- and post-debate sermonizing by political pundits. No Anderson Cooper or Megyn Kelly. No presidential candidates, even. (Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were running for the US Senate).
No commercial breaks
How about the founder of Chick-Fil-A, or the CEO of Hobby Lobby, or the inventor and former CEO behind Firefox?
Today’s debate are structured so the moderator can maintain control over what the candidate says. It’s all about control. And we live in such a rule based society that it mostly works. (My favorite was when Giuliani was running and the stage was full of candidates. The moderator said, “Everybody who believes in Global Warming raise your hand. It was like a third grade class. I turned it off.)
I agree with the author. Let the candidates articulate their vision of what the country should do.
Sorta like being examined on the subject of fastballs by Nolan Ryan and Dennis Eckersly.
Foreign policy? Hmmm, is George Schultz still available? Henry the K sure is .... how about John Bolton and Schultz?
I'd like to see Hillary getting grilled on Benghazi by a guy named Moncrieff Y. Spear, who was U.S. consul in Da Nang when the wheels came off. He knows a thing or nine about crisis diplomacy and survival time. As in, "Go ahead and park your tanks on the beach and swim out to the ships. Do it now. The NVA are right behind us."
Yeah, Hill, what would you do? What did you counsel your ambassador to do? By the way, where was your boss?
Better still, let Dr. K. "examine" her ..... it'd be like a procto exam with ocotillo cactus .... the mighty Henry the K, examining the poseur, the fake, the inflated ego .... one mighty ego circling another, like a scene out of Jurassic World, Henry sniffing the scent of blood as he sizes up his big, fat, cankled prey..... it'd be epic. They could show it in movie theaters and charge admission, like "The Thrilla in Manila". I'd pay to see it, me.
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