The next incumbent president that agrees to three debates should be disqualified as being too dense to be president in a second term. It is strictly a media circus, all the polls after the debates are now stacked by DU emails, there is no debating done only endless repeats from campaign speeches, and it gives the challenger valuable time to appear "presidential" on free air time. James Baker stepped into a campaign quagmire when he negotiated these disasterous debates. Bill Clinton only did two in '96, so at the most that's what should have been done this year. Now we have to listen to the partisan media hype yet another "Showdown at the O K Corral" until next week...gack!
I have been saying this all along. I feel we should have never given quarter to even ONE debate.
Its like the guy on the Apprentice that gave up his immunity in false bravado and he got fired...same principle here. Bush too far ahead in the polls to mess with debating anyone and risking the dem and MSM spin machine...
By the way Ron Silver is on MSNBC after hours debate right now, pro-Bush in the debate it looks like.