Aw, c’mon, people!! Get REAL!
These debates are in REAL LIFE, with REAL candidates, speaking about REAL issues, in REAL time, that affect YOU.
Ginggrich is right to object to NBC’s attempt at suppressing your fellow Americans’ REAL-time responses to what these candidates (and the moderators) are saying. These are not “stacked” audiences; they’re right-of-center to conservative audiences of people having a particular interest in the Republican nomination for President, and it is to our advantage to have these audiences’ responses register visibly, and audibly on a national stage. The nation needs to know what we think, and to HEAR how strongly we feel about particular issues. God knows Boehner, McConnell, and Co. haven’t the stones to do it; they’re practically deaf up there in Washington. So people like you and I need to be able to go to a debate between candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination and make our voices heard so that the world knows where we stand, and how firmly.
AFTER the nomination; AFTER our candidate is chosen, and the cross-party Presidential debates begin; THEN it will be appropriate to request that the audience restrain themselves, because THEN the audience will be a mixed audience, and we do NOT want to see a Presidential debate descend into a hooting and hollering match between markedly diverse political factions.
NOW, however, with the scope of these present debates limited to GOP/Conservative interests; let the audience loose. Americans across this country need to have it register with them, in a visceral way, how Conservatives respond to media, and to the issues the moderators bring up. In these one-party debates, audience response is both important, and appropriate. Let it be.
Aw, c’mon, people!! Get REAL!
These debates are in REAL LIFE, with REAL candidates, speaking about REAL issues, in REAL time, that affect YOU.
Ginggrich is right to object to NBC’s attempt at suppressing your fellow Americans’ REAL-time responses to what these candidates (and the moderators) are saying. These are not “stacked” audiences; they’re right-of-center to conservative audiences of people having a particular interest in the Republican nomination for President, and it is to our advantage to have these audiences’ responses register visibly, and audibly on a national stage. The nation needs to know what we think, and to HEAR how strongly we feel about particular issues. God knows Boehner, McConnell, and Co. haven’t the stones to do it; they’re practically deaf up there in Washington. So people like you and I need to be able to go to a debate between candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination and make our voices heard so that the world knows where we stand, and how firmly.
AFTER the nomination; AFTER our candidate is chosen, and the cross-party Presidential debates begin; THEN it will be appropriate to request that the audience restrain themselves, because THEN the audience will be a mixed audience, and we do NOT want to see a Presidential debate descend into a hooting and hollering match between markedly diverse political factions.
NOW, however, with the scope of these present debates limited to GOP/Conservative interests; let the audience loose. Americans across this country need to have it register with them, in a visceral way, how Conservatives respond to media, and to the issues the moderators bring up. In these one-party debates, audience response is both important, and appropriate. Let it be.
WELL SAID. I don’t get it why some people want the audience to be shackled. It’s not a lecture by a professor on a boring topic at a university. I bet people were allowed to sound off at the Lincoln Douglas debates, or other “live” presidential debates in history.