If you think that's what they would use national air time for, you must be a bigger idiot than most. Other than Trump, few of the candidates have gotten much air time at all outside of answering "gotchya" questions from Liberal attack dogs...
and the fact that the Liberal attack dogs agreed to give them that time, and now are trying to take it away, should tell you all that you need to know.
As I mentioned in an earlier post. I don’t think that the candidates are opposed to forging opening statements and thus there must be some other debate condition that is not palatable.
In most debates, I find the Opeinng Statements to be boring and repetitive. Closing statements are more important. But, do we really need to hear about Columbia Bush and how much Jeb loves the Hispanic people?