This is their line of thinking when their preferred candidates are not in the lead. You can bet this would not be their line of thinking if Bush or to a lesser extent, Kasich or Christie were leading.
And the MSM thinks moderators should make out with the selected Democrat candidate.
We don’t need moderators at all. I repeat, there is no need for debate moderators. Having the media control what things are fit to discuss and act was never in the Constitution and these media heads, bought and paid for by people with agendas sometimes counter to the needs of the American people, who are supposed to own their government, not the other way around.
Decide how many people may be in presidential debates, say, at the beginning of the election season, maybe a max of 10, depending on an aggregate of polls, then slowly winding down the number as the season progresses.
Have those 10 candidates pick 5 topics each that they would like to discuss. Ask an open ended question to the American people, what subjects would you like to see at the debate, and weed down to the most popular ones. Have the candidates then go ver all the choices, give them X number of topics to finally include for a 2.5 hour debate with x mins on each topic.
Have a mild host who needn’t be famous or political, who only deals with time per topic and gross disobedience of the rules by a candidate. Start off every topic, say, Russia, with 3 minutes to each candidate on that topic. At the end of each statement, there should be an open forum for candidates to press a button to take a minute each to rebut. Any candidate can press his (silent) button which will turn on his mike at the next opportunity. So no one talks over anyone.
Say that Christie has pressed his first for the rebuttal time on Russia. He says his bit, and while he is speaking, both Paul and Bush press theirs, in that order. Immediately after Christie, Paul would speak. Then Bush. Then the next person who presses. The candidates would have to fit their thoughts attacks whatever into the format. If people were sneaky and took that last minute to slam another candidate who couldn’t then rebut, everyone would see that as a sneaky bad manner. But everyone could get s rebuttal because there would be time, however, if a candidate couldn’t quickly think of fresh, love things to rebut with, he wouldn’t buzz in, and he would appear to be a very canned candidate who could not think for himself.
Trump skipped the debacle and proved he is smarter than the average bear.