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To: opentalk

Great job GOPe. Couldn’t have these great debate moderators without your help.


12 posted on 10/11/2012 5:51:01 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

As somebody pointed out, Romney and Ryan NEEDED the debates, so they had to accept the garbage dished out by the Commission.

Or do you think that Team Obama would have gone to debates hosted by Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, etc.?


35 posted on 10/11/2012 7:13:06 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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Great job GOPe. Couldn’t have these great debate moderators without your help.
Romney and Ryan NEEDED the debates, so they had to accept the garbage dished out by the Commission.

Or do you think that Team Obama would have gone to debates hosted by Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, etc.?

35 posted on October 11, 2012 10:13:06 AM EDT by Little Ray

Yeah - in any negotiation, “If you need it bad, you’ll get it bad!

The only way to ever change that would be to pass a law making broadcasting debates - debates without moderators, excepting only for a chess timer to divvy up the microphone time equally - a condition for broadcast license renewal.

The existence of any moderator at all, be he never so neutral, is objectionable in principle because it “positions” the moderator above the future POTUS. Democrats aren’t bothered by that, of course, because the moderator is always “neutral” on the side of the Democratic candidate.


52 posted on 10/11/2012 11:11:37 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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