Very incisive article. You spell out exactly what is wrong with the “gotcha” format of last night’s speed-interviewing (I can’t really call it a debate”).
Why is it better to have the candidates stand there and field whatever random questions come out of the mouths of the interviewers? Better to present a series of issues and give the candidates an opportunity to lay out their views. Then they can be questioned about inconsistencies, etc.
As it is, we see barbs thrown unsystematically in a way intended to take down the one candidate or another (last night the target was Trump; who knows who it will be if he goes down?).
Whoever stands in the way of JEB! and the nomination. All Hail the Dauphin, Jeb the Inevitable (it's his turn, you know...)!