Posted on 05/05/2023 8:58:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We still don’t know for sure if Ron DeSantis is going to run. The rest of the field after Donald Trump is a bunch of weak controlled opposition Republicans including Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, John Bolton, and the immortal Asa Hutchinson. In light of all this, the Republican primary debates could end up being a major snoozefest. Tucker Carlson, however, has a tantalizingly different idea: he is considering hosting his own debate, outside of the Republic National Committee framework. Now that could liven things up considerably.
The snag that Carlson is still an employee of Fox News remains, but the Washington Post reported Thursday that if he is “willing to walk away from some of the millions that Fox is contractually obligated to pay him, if that would give him the flexibility to have a prominent voice in the 2024 election cycle.” Bernie Sanders would tell Tucker that he has plenty of money already, so why not? If he does go this route, Carlson could “moderate his own GOP candidate forum, outside of the usual strictures of the Republican National Committee debate system.”
That would be a breath of fresh air, as anyone who remembers the viciously biased performance of Chris Wallace in the first 2020 debate between Trump and Old Joe Biden can attest. Wallace did everything he could to sandbag Trump and let Old Joe get away with a cornucopia of lies, false denials, and false accusations. It was clear that Wallace was angling for the job he soon got at CNN, where he was a spectacular failure, and that he was eager in his debate “moderation” to make the doddering kleptocrat Biden look as good as possible, and the America-First president as bad as possible.
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Instead of being led for the umpteenth time to the prepackaged conclusions that the Leftist political and media establishment demands that we accept, there might be an opportunity for candidates to think beyond sound bites and shibboleths and actually engage in some independent thought.
Even in a debate featuring such lackluster establishment hacks as John Bolton and Asa Hutchinson, that could be positively scintillating.
I really don’t care whether Tucker hosts a debate or not. Here’s what does matter to me. Every candidate in a political debate should be able to pick his/her share of moderators.
Anything else is a fixed debate. And that’s exactly what we’ve been having for the last 60 or so years.
That would be another good debate.
Nevertheless, the Tucker moderated debate would be a good one.
Do at least both of those.
Jettison the Fox and the WP debates.
And we never see a debate where the communists face hard questions from a Rush, a Tucker, etc. Just softballs from a friend.
It would be a rejection of the old news media, their control over a public narratives, and drive them out of their minds.
You forgot Larry Elder and Vivek Ramaswamy.
And the declared senator Tim Scott!
Tucker would be good to bring in two other lesser-known independent moderators to signal the MSM is done. And the RNC is on life-support.
Wrestling away the political systems and giving it back to the American people would be a substantial move. There doesn’t need to be an RNC, only state conservative parties.
A Tucker moderated debate streamed live on Twitter would be interesting.
Mike Pence should have one on one debates with every democrat that has WH aspirations. One subject 90 minutes each.
Pence is going nowhere so he might as well spend time with the wackos as well as the wanna be noticed(Yang/Williamson). Can’t picture any backdowns other than AOC. Her dead brain would be exposed. For Pence it would be a public service.
That wouldn’t fly as the RNC won’t let the other candidates go on a separate forum. They would try that with Trump, but I think he’d find a way around them, so it would turn into a town hall with Tucker and Trump that was blacked out on all but a few tiny, conservative networks.
Debates are good theater but they don’t matter. The Election is rigged.
No doubt Carlson is frustrated, but the “what ifs” are Hannity’s domain.
My main takeaway from this article: John freakin’ Bolton is running for President?
I wonder if the networks would give up the huge advertising dollars a Tucker-moderated debate would bring in.
Listening to Dteave Deace podcast this week. With all of the rigging and cheating the percentages were shockingly low.
I don’t think THEY want Vivek or Elder in any debate. Much like when Alan Keyes was wiping the stage with the selected candidates 25 years ago.
Better to pick three random names out of the phone book and have them as moderators. They can ask any question they want.
Funny thing... many consider Tucker ‘controlled opposition’
I’m all in for whatever Tucker does. This sounds like a great idea. The GOP needs a shake-up, a grab-em-by-the-shoulders-and-shake-em-til-their-head-comes-loose moment.
Maybe this would be a good thing.
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