Both WND and Joseph Farah have made themselves irrelevant.
Is it on TV?
There’s an obvious contradiction between wanting smaller government and wanting to legislate values of any sort. Smaller government is supposed to be the most major ‘value’ which republicans stand for.
>>The GOP already has been gradually and incrementally replacing core Conservative values with Socialism for decades.
If we have Value Voters “debates”, maybe no one will notice.
Either that or no one wants to waste their time stroking the egos of a bunch of internet kookburgers.
LOL.
There's a fundamental problem with moderated debates. If the moderator is a journalist, he will promote himself and his own views. Journalists are all self promoters, that's why they are in the publicity business.And there is a fundamental problem with multicandidate debates, especially when moderated. Not all candidates have the same opportunity to make their statements in the same context, if at all.
In reality, if you wanted to sort out the pro's and cons of the candidates you would let them ask the questions, in the context of their own statements. And all the candidates would answer them, on an equal footing - that is, they would literally all speak at the same time. Obviously that would only be possible if the candidates were in different rooms. And if in different rooms, why do they have to be at the same venue??
And if you actually want the views and attitudes of the candidates, why put them in a position where they are at pointed risk of committing a faux pas? Why should they not have feedback which would point out when they have misspoken? Why should they not have notes? Why should they not have computers? Why should they not have the ability to provide links to reference data? Why shouldn't they use Power Point for their presentations?
The answer is of course that they absolutely should - and the reason those things are ruled out is that they do not suit Big Journalism, which wants heat and not light.