Posted on 02/28/2012 7:42:46 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather
The only good news for the Republicans coming out of the seemingly endless presidential candidate "debates" is that some Republican leaders are now belatedly thinking about how they can avoid a repetition of this debacle in future elections.
What could they possibly have been thinking about, in the first place, when they agreed to a format based on short sound bites for dealing with major complex issues, and with media journalists -- 90 percent of them Democrats -- picking the topics?
The conduct of the candidates made things worse. In a world with a record-breaking national debt and Iran moving toward creating nuclear weapons, they bickered over earmarks and condoms. I am against earmarks, but earmarks don't rank among the first hundred most serious problems facing this country.
Mud-slinging has replaced rational discussions of differences on serious issues -- not only during the debates themselves, where the moderators sic the candidates on each other, but even more so in the massive television character assassination ads in which Romney supporters seem to specialize.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Did Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh moderate a single GOP debate? Hell no! Not even rising stars like Tucker Carlson and that youthful looking guy whose name I can't remember who likes to interview people in New York City and is getting divorced from his wife because he had an affair with a co-worker.
Maybe in 2020, incumbent President Trump mandates that GOP debates be moderated by conservatives. What is so hard about that?
Sorry it took me so long to respond but I’ve been fuming all this time.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.