Maybe not policy or issue questions, but were surely questions that pertained to electability. That show of hands thing at the beginning was absolutely called for. Trump himself has made this an issue by his teasing, dancing around a definitive answer on the third party run thing and finally was called to account. I was glad to see him pushed to answer, although his “If they are nice to me I won’t run as third party” sounded petty.
These are supposed to be grownups playing in the big leagues. A presidential campaign is hard and they will face much worse that Megan Kelly the farther along they go. Either get over it or get out of it.
“not policy or issue questions”
Exactly!
Well, I expect such questions to “grownups” in “the big leagues”, not childish “electability” (do you have any idea of the nebulosity of that criterion?) memes.
I liked the opening third party question too BTW. That was a “grownup” question.
A presidential campaign is hard and they will face much worse that Megan Kelly the farther along they go.
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Really? Care to provide some “much worse” examples? I understand your point about the need to get ‘steeled’ for the long process but Kelly was enjoying throwing hand grenades. And note that Fox consumed nearly one third of the “debate” time. The production was clearly intended to be more about Team Kelly than it was about the candidates.
The snarky Ms. Kelly was giggling all week about what she was going to do to the candidates. That was not professionalism, it was cheap gotcha journalism that engender envy and praise from the liberal networks. Its hard to image a more vitriolic spectacle unless you have some idea of an even worse form of a political hatchet job. If so, I’d like to hear what you think might be forthcoming and who is going to do it.