I think it’s a great idea, except we’d definitely end up with Trump as the Republican nominee…unless that’s the goal, and really it would be a gift.
None of the others would understand the words ‘business plan’. I expect it would turn into solicitations for campaign contributions. It could almost be an episode of America’s Got Talent.
What WILL YOU DO, Jeb! for an extra half million dollars? How many fire baton twirlers would we get? Certainly Rubio with his Miami Dolphins cheerleader wife.
I cracked up at Trump’s business plan because that’s exactly what it would be… You might want to give him a call and offer up the idea. It would be YUUUUGE.
If only Tweety pursued truth like he polices imagined slurs against Mother Media and if only the candidates could have enjoyed 11 hours of intense softball questions like Hillary…poor lambs.
The League of Women Voters would not be acceptable to the RNC. These Republicans are the same people that tried in 2011 to block registering voters through tactics they had codified in law, where the League had to turn in their registration forms within 48 hrs for voters in Florida. It became untenable and they quit registering for awhile due to the onerous effect of the law and then took it to court. I believe that a judge eventually overturned that decision but the damage had already been done prior to the 2012 election.
As in that case and so many others, the GOP/RNC has figured out how to rig the game. Eliminate anyone that poses a threat to their hold on power. Call them a Librul group like Planned Parenthood, label and smear them, then repeat the lie over and over again until it gains traction.
Having moderators know their stuff before being allowed to be in a debate would be all to the good, but you can only lead a horse to water… even though who wouldn’t want more articulate, more educated choices to moderate these debates? The pool of journalists/reporters with gravitas to conduct that effort would be rejected outright by the RNC…They ultimately have to agree on who they’ll allow to do that moderating, which in some ways is whack too.
Its just not gonna happen as long as the corporate media is using these forums as a way to make money, instead of serving a public good regardless of their good ratings or bad. Profitability should never be used as a way to conduct a debate forum, no matter how many eyeballs they can initially attract.
Until we have public financing of campaigns including the debate process, which should allow free and fair use of our public airways that belong to all of us anyway supposedly, this crappy process we have now is only going to get worse.
The way I see it, the only reason that the field hasn’t been whittled down yet is because tRump and Carson are leading the bunch. If Jeb!, Rrrubio, Kasich or Christie were leading in the polls, the RNC would have stepped in a long time ago and demanded the bottom tier cut-off eliminate all those below say 7 or 8%ers and the top 5 candidates would already be on stage on a regular basis.
The RNC created this mess alongside the cable companies…and the cable companies gave the RNC what they wanted. Shame on all of them for making this the spectacle and clowncar it has become.
Hey! Were you watching the debate on a split screen with Survivor last night? It certainly would have been hard to tell the difference. Thank god the Repugs weren’t in bikinis! (Though it would have been cool to see them forced eat bugs, etc…)
The media needs to push back on the liberal media crap, it’s been going on for years and is rarely challenged, if ever. Surely, they can come up with a reply to the liberal media crap. Just be prepared for it,
We (the media) are hear to ask direct questions about your stated positions, just as we do of the Democrats. If that is too challenging for you, let us know.
Of course, everyone knows that with the GOP their bad performance is ALWAYS someone else’s fault. They ALL conveniently forget they they are the governing party now and have been for nearly 4 years in the House and 2 in the Senate and yet still insist on blaming others for their failures.
One thing is for sure, the GOP demonstrated last night just what GOP governance is going to look like if they get elected. You can take that to the bank.
The GOP has become bulls in the China shop, but unlike your typical bulls, they don’t want they both literally and figuratively don’t want to pay for any of the damages they cause but rather just charge it to your average middle class taxpayer.
At least there is a silver lining in all this and something they can all agree with Obama, Hillary and the Democrats now, they are complaining about themselves.
Media in America is owned and controlled by corporations with no interest at all in citizens learning about the issues. “Hosts” are concerned about their careers and have no interest at all in citizens learning about the issues. Republican candidates are interested in pleasing their corporate paymasters, and they in turn have no interest in informing citizens of the issues.
Therefore, “hosts” ask inane questions about personality, ‘the horse race’, political strategy, etc.
Republican candidates pretend to outrage over such things. Corporations rest easier knowing citizens will learn nothing about the issues from either the “hosts” or the candidates. Media can count the advertising revenue. It all works …
… unless you’re a citizens who’d like to know about the issues.
