-if I was doing it the "moderators" would be Rush, Bill O'Reilly and Mark Davis----
It should happen regardless who wins.
At the very least the GOP needs to refuse to any debates with ANY moderators. All there should be is a timekeeper who cuts off the mike after a certain point. If unmoderated debates were good enough for Lincoln/Douglas they are good enough now.
After this election no reputable candidate should ever again acquiesce to taking part in a “debate” sponsored by this commission.
There is a large part of me that wants Trump to give the commission and the TV networks the middle finger and skip the 3rd debate, but I wonder if that will cause more issues for his campaign than help it.
Self-inflicted wounds.
Thats why we have to pick our moderators and invite the bed wetting liberal to the debate
Why is there a “Commission on Presidential Debates” in the first place?
What Constitutional or other authority exists for there to be such a thing? I presume it was not created by State Legislatures, the only bodies with even a shred of authority over the choosing of electors.
People are surprised by this?
If I had my way,
If I had my way,
If I had my way I would tear this old building down.
— Rev Gary Davis
I would be incredibly disappointed if President Trump consents to debate his opponent in 2020. He should refuse, citing the absolute bias of the Commission, and further indicate that he, unlike the traditional Party leadership, isn’t stupid enough to walk into a trap like that a 2nd time (or an 8th time, like the RINO idiots have done).
Regarding the Sunday debate, he needs to challenge/warn Chris Wallace very early in the debate about bias. Maybe it’ll hold off some of the worst stuff, but it will at least put 80 million people on notice about it.
Yeah the debates are as honestly run as ‘21’ was.
He doesn't need to burn it to the ground. All he has to do is refuse to participate.
The Republicans should run their own primary debates in a neutral way. No moderators, simply a timer in clear view on the podium. When the time is up, the microphone shuts off.
When a candidate finishes their answer, they press a button. If they have time remaining, it is "banked" for the next answer, if they want to use it.
While a candidate is speaking, all other microphones are off. If a candidate still tries to interrupt, he forfeits his next turn to speak.
Questions are submitted by the respective campaigns. Questions must be worded so that every candidate can answer: no more "gotcha" questions. Questions will be actual questions, not a position statement disguised as a question.
Questions will be recorded by a voice actor, then chosen at random when the moderator presses a button to play the question.
When there are more than 2 candidates on the stage, each candidate will be given an opportunity to answer it, with no rebuttals. Once there are only two candidates, once a candidate answers the question, the other candidate will get a half-time rebuttal. (i.e. if answer time is 2 minutes, the rebuttal is limited to 1 minute).
This gets rid of biased moderators altogether, and there's no opportunity to steer the debate in favor of a particular candidate.
If the Republicans run their debates like this, they can then say: we will participate in this kind of debate. The other parties are welcome to participate. We won't be doing any others.
The first debate should include all parties on enough ballots to win the electoral college. After that, it can be reduced to the major party candidates, if the others aren't gathering enough support to be viable.
The Democratic Party is the great white shark; establishment Republicans are the remoras attached to the shark and feeding off the crumbs the shark leaves.
Sickening.
The Democratic Party is the great white shark; establishment Republicans are the remoras attached to the shark and feeding off the crumbs the shark leaves.
Sickening.
Those perfumed GOP Princes, now in lock step with the corrupt Clintons and Obamas are totally responsible for the demise of the Grand Old Party, NOT Donald Trump.
No sympathy whatsoever. Just how many decades does it take for the GOPe to comprehend the problem? Over and over the stupid party willingly allows themselves to get bamboozled. Oh sure the GOPe pat themselves on the back for their magnanimous display of bipartisanship, while Democrats laugh like the thief who just plundered Ft. Knox. Over and over again.
And what about the mysterious middle-aged man who popped up on the stage immediately after the first debate concluded? He grabbed papers from Hillary’s lectern and handed them to moderator Lester Holt. What was in those papers? There may be an innocent explanation for this but if so it doesn’t appear to have surfaced.
This country is run like a banana republic.
Now, the debates screw over Americans.
To Hell with the traitorous Republicans.
Who cares what happens to them.
I’ve emailed the Commission. Got no response. We’re just “the little people”. (Deplorables.)