It is a classic campaign tactic for the front runner to limit debates like this. And it is the classic line of the loser to claim the other side is "chicken".
If a Diplomatic and Tough Butterfly like Roy Cohn flapped his lips on Twitter but didn't show up at the debate, would he still make a credible sound?
>>It is a classic campaign tactic for the front runner to limit debates like this
Uhuh. Because why bother with that whole “Truth is great and will prevail” idea when it’s sooo, pre-millenial American history.
Besides, Generation XBox is much more interested in who’s winning American Idolatry and Dancing with the Perverts in between commercials for Beer, Erectile Dysfunction, Sleeping Pills, and Depends anyhow.
(This’d be the same audience of super geniuses, BTW, who elected Comrade Chairman Obumble - TWICE; so we obviously wouldn’t want the nudge the cage too hard... lest they actually wake up and start thinking instead of parroting!)