And should the country be blessed with a Republican president in the future, when the media monkeys come clamoring for debates, he should just laugh and say, "No, thank you." There is nowhere in the Constitution that demands debates, and any president who is ahead is only giving the challenger a shot by having them. And since Bill Clinton only had TWO, why did James Baker agree to three of these fiascos? This is all media hype and bluster. They have their pro-Democrat reviews written before the debates begin.
It's hard to do this, but at some point a GOP President is going to have to take on the media head-on---not outflank them like Reagan and Bush have done.