So Ron Paul and McCain get the stage?
It adds to Romney’s and Rudy’s credibility to skip such a phoney baloney pile of poop.
I agree, but its not like Jim Leher has anything over a snowman.
Just as bad as the Dems running from Fox News. Pathetic cowardice.
I’m more concerned that the GOP really does do all that they truly can do to make sure that Hillary Clinton doesn’t truly become our next POTUS! It would also be very helpful to have a majority of conservative politicians in Congress as well asap! I’m for everything that truly succeeds in creating these two political scenarios.
I think this is one of those situations where you can’t really win. If you agree to a YouTube (so-called) debate, you are agreeing to participate in an essentially shallow forum in which silly, essentially meaningless real-time graphics are overlaid that show the supposed popularity of any given statement on a second-by-second basis. To paraphrase Newt Gingrich, 10 or 11 people standing passively at microphones, reduced to the level of 40-second answers, standing like a trained seal, waiting for someone to throw them a fish.
But if you don’t agree to participate, you run the risk of being seen as decidedly less hip, a rusty old codger that doesn’t understand nor embrace new concepts in the digital world. You’re not in with the in-crowd.
GOP is dumber that a toe sack full of wet kittens for supporting Rudy Inc. The You Tube debate is BS and should be avoided, that’s a gimme but Rudy is the destruction of the GOP IMO.........He runs, DNC’s bitch wins.......
I’m blaming CNN in this case, if they didn’t check the candidate’s availability in advance. However, in general I prefer them to be in the show. Yes, I’m aware that electing a new president is a serious stuff. However, in this country any citizen age 18 and above is allowed to vote, and they do watch YouTube more than our generations. Yes, they will ask strange questions. And yes, there’s a good chance CNN will allow silly questions. Still, if we don’t take the opportunity to take the message out, even when it’s risky, I think we’re missing out important segment of voters. Who knows, in a close election, perhaps their votes count.
Well the Democrats won’t debate on FOX so why should Republicans go on liberal networks?
I dont’ blame them, just a cheap dog and pony show. I wouldn’t stoop so low as to participate in such a charade.
CNN lacks Gravitas...
I liked Gingrich’s analysis that so far it’s been more of an audition for the presidency than a real debate or dialog. This Youtube crap verifies his thinking.
Republicans are the adults here, not Democrats.
When you get this stupid debate format, you get nothing but “pony-tailed guys” like the one during the 1992 debates, who asked what the government was going to do for “all of us children.”