In an honest debate that would be true, but the POTUS debates will be anything but honest. It doesn't matter who our candidate is, Obumbles and his media supporters will pick every topic and make all the rules.
Question for Obumbles: Why do you care so much about hungry children, widows, the middle class, and fuzzy puppies?
Question for Newt ( Mutt, Perry, Santorum) : You have always hated the poor, middle class, seniors, and favored rich wall street thugs, Why is that?
Which is exactly why Newt will be perfect for the job of debating Obama. He’s the only one that extracts the duplicitous premise of such questions, and turns it back around on the questioner. The rest of them just obliviously wander right into such traps and go full steam ahead with their talking points.
You are right-it will be exactly the way you say it will.
But I am pretty confident that Newt is smart, experienced and RUTHLESS enough to navigate a debate venue like what you describe. He certainly will acquit himself WAY better than Mitt would do or is capable of doing.
It’s time for Conservatives to field a candidate with CLAWS and TEETH. That is not Mitt.