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Posted on 10/29/2011 8:41:50 PM PDT by shoedog
The Republican candidates are stupid for scheduling and accepting so many debates. This is just ridiculous, especially when they let liberals moderate the debates. If after , what six plus debates already you can't figure out what candidates stand for your in trouble. All this is doing is giving cannon fodder for the media and a potential land mine that the candidate steps on.
Ab-so-lutely. Libs ask all these loaded questions, not to help anyone choose a GOP candidate but to make them all look like kooks.
One debate per month is more than enough.
It is FREE air-time exposure. Manifold Debates would be great for our side if Romney and Perry would quit acting the fool and coming to near fist-fights, and if Santorum and Bachmann could get their anger and ugliness under control. It’s not the media that’s hurting the Debates; it’s those four clowns.
I think our candidates have little to worry about from Obumo. Every single person in the public arena is gonna make mis-steps along the way. Obumo has the distinction of being a huge proven mis-step in all entirety.
Conservatives generally don’t go around plucking heartstrings, kissing babies, and telling voters that the other side wants to kill their grandmothers and poison their children. We don’t get alot of fair or favorable press so the debates get conservative ideas in front of folks that normally doom themselves to a vacuous diet of NBC/CBS/ABC/PR.
It’s OK for us to have a lovable flake(Ron Paul)and shallow pols like Romney/Perry. But when they see Cain in action, I’m betting they’ll be rooting for electric fences too. We are bringing some substance to the table. If the dumocrats think they can snooker voters with Obumo’s stellar record, good luck to ‘em.
since when has the stupid party acted in its interests against the evil party?
I agree. And to be honest, the whole tacky, game-show style format and lib-centric questioning has been a massive turn-off. I don’t have a candidate either, and these debates, if anything, have really just incrementally soured me on all of them. Maybe it’s just due to the uninspiring nature of the candidates themselves, but I’m thinking it’s actually been the debate formats that have been greatly to blame. The last two debates (exluding the Bloomberg one, which I didn’t see)... I tried, but I just couldn’t even sit through them to the end. They were ghastly.
In their current format, you are spot on, but with the Lincoln-Douglas style debate being hosted by the Texas Tea Party Patriots on Nov. 5th, we may see the beginning of something really noteworthy and in need of repeating.
The sorry thing, or maybe a blessing, is the only candidates with the cajones to accept the challenge are Cain and Gingrich. If this goes off as good as I think it will, it will set the top two for the remainder of the primaries. Especially if they find a way to broadcast or stream the debate live.
the typical voter hasn’t watched any and will be lucky to catch one or two...the more there are the better for the candidates
And it allows those in single digits to pick away at the top tier.
Cain and Gingrich may be doing their own debate for the reasons you point out. Should have serious questions and no agenda driven ones from the LSM.
Why should a debate even have questions? Select a topic, and go at it for 3 hours. Let the candidates ask each other questions if they want.
When are we actually going to have a real debate instead of the sham?
Agreed.
Of course it is ridiculous. Someone mentioned the Stupid Party, us. This election was so in the bag I could feel it, never had that feeling before. But I am loosing the feeling watching our side arranging constant circular firing squads for ourselves. We fall for the con each and every time we are offered it. A gazillion opportunities to savage ourselves, sure, where do we show up. This way all of our candidates will slip up sometime, and then everyone of them will look like a dummy, jerk, a buffoon. We need to get rid of these debates. Let the candidates go back to old fashion campaigning. Let’s not turn our primaries into cage matches where the winner is bloodied and injured.
To me, it seems that the people in the smoke filled rooms of the past picked better candidates than primary process of today.
Sounds like someone heard Michael Savage yesterday. He said nearly this very thing including the idiocy of allowing lefty moderators like Anderson Blooper free reign over the tone and direction of the debate.
So why not have some of them with conservative, fair moderators instead. Feeding yourself to the MSM dogs all the time is just idiotic. You know they are going to try to throw the nomination to liberals or mushes.
Now it’s the nonsmoking rooms and they like people like Mitt and Huntsman. Mushes or lefties.
These “debates” are “politcal” shows designed to create ratings for the various networks. IMHO
I'm perplexed at December's current schedule. Of FOUR, THREE are set for IOWA. Of those, TWO are in Des Moines in a period of 9 days total with the third Iowa debate in between. That's insane.
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