Romney would have a hard time declining a joint invite from the big 2 or 3 voices in conservative talk radio. And if he chickens out, they could have the debate without Romney.
Also, whoever sponsors the event does not have to ask all the questions. For example, they could invite John Bolton to ask Foreign Affairs questions or invite Thomas Sowell and Art Laffer to ask economy questions.
Fox would almost certainly agree to offer air time, and if not, there is always C-SPAN.
Mitt Romney
Rush addressed this not long ago, and he gave a non-answer.
He said something like, “There are reasons why-—and things I just can’t say”, and he cut to a break. I’m paraphrasing, but that’s pretty close. It made no sense.
The volatility in the primary polls is there because voters do not know who the best conservative is. That is why Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Santorum and Newt have had their respective surges.
Currently, conservatives are trying to choose the best anti-Romney candidate between Newt and Santorum, so these are the two who should face off in a long, meaningful debate to show their positions on all the main subjects.
Good question. The best “debate” I saw was the Frank Luntz Thanksgiving weekend internet only “debate”. My estimation of all the candidates went up after that. Mitt Romney did not attend.
I agree completely.
A lot of writers now dispense with publishers totally, and go straight to Amazon.
What in hell do we need the major networks for? They could do it on Ustream, or they could just YouTube it.
Let’s show that the networks are buggywhip makers..!
The networks hate us —fine, that’s biz.
Let’s hate them back in a really practical way.
Rush could do it. I don't know of any other conservative presstitutes that could be even near reasonably objective.
I believe Newsmax tried but too many said no.
I wonder if a debate could be tried on radio.
One of the best political exchanges I’ve ever heard was when Ahhhnold was running for California governor. I can’t remember if it was before or after the GOP primary, but Sean Hannity had him on the radio and fired off a series of questions,. Most of them were yes or no, but they were direct and Arnold responded just as directly. Even if I didn’t like his position, it was refreshing to hear someone give a clean answer without spin.
I’d rather hear a one-on-one conversation, face to face with no table between, no obvious offense or defense.
The lack of TV networks controlled by conservatives is probably the biggest factor. And even Fox moderators try to be 'objective' and even show how tough they are.
Still, if they could have debates with conservative moderators, Fox and C-Span would be a start and even other online streaming since so many citizens now have internet access.
More should have agree to the Trump/Newsmax debate just to set the precedent. Nothing Trump might have done in November would have helped him much six or more months later if he did decide on a third party bid.
But many or most of the questions from the libs this year have been a waste of time and only designed to make all Republican candidates look bad.
There is no conservative media.
Or they could hold out for an even distribution of moderators between conservative and liberal reporters.
Rush and the others work for different radio stations. Rush’s loyalty is to his stations. He is not going to promote hosts on other stations.