Being a total non-viewer of CNN, what do we know about Jake Tapper?
What are the chances they can ask as many stupid questions as Fox?
Will they also ignore Cruz for forty minutes?
Will they ask Trump what his favorite color is when he has women on their knees?
Hope to see a debate and not a debacle.
This is ridiculous. I want to see Trump, Cruz, Walker and pick someone to debate about foreign policy, economic policy and leave it at that.
Social issues needs to be taken off the table since it can only be played out as a gotcha.
So meeeeegyn kelly is gonna be on loan to cnn? What deep “question” will she have lined up the Donald this time? “How is that a man with your wealth continues to do the comb over thing? Didn’t you ever hear of Bosley Hair solutions?” /s
Well this shouldn’t surprise anyone. This whole debate process has turned into a reality show. Anything for ratings.
Debate The Moderators
prediction: any question to donald trump other than, “mr. trump, sir, could you please list for us some of the reasons that you are so awesome?” will be met with an insanely violent eruption from his virulent twitter feed. again.
watch. it will happen.
Why not do 4 or 5 at a time for 15 or 20 minute segments, same questions to each group. Then bring em out one at a time for a 1 or 2 minute wrap.
As Carson has apparently been “disinvited”, I’m not interested.
1. A question is taken from each candidate's campaign speeches and asked to that candidate in a neutral way. Example: What would you do about record high unemployment?
2. Candidate gets 1 minute to speak.
3. Each other candidate, chosen randomly each time (months drawn them a bag will do), gets 1 minute to rebut.
4. Original candidate gets final 30 seconds to close out the question.
That's 10 1/2 minutes, assuming 10 candidates. Add another minute or so for overages and call it 12 minutes. With each candidate drawing one question from their own campaigns and getting an equal opportunity to respond to the other candidates, that's 120 minutes for 10 candidates. Add another 30 minutes for breaks and you have a two and a half hour event. Each candidate gets 10 and a half minutes to speak across all issues.
No moderator interruptions or arguing back to the candidates. It's the candidates vetting each other's policy positions.
-PJ
I don’t understand why, in this age of technology and communication, that we have to have a farcical series of theatrical, staged media spectacles to choose a Presidential nominee. Why not have each of the candidates prepare a manifesto for the public. It would be to their advantage to make it as clear, concise and factual as possible. Those who really cared about the issues could listen to video-taped preparations that dispense with the idiotic queries of some TV personality. There’s also no reason why questions couldn’t be directly answered in that format as well via the internet.
The only reasons I can think of that we continue these “gotcha” public performances is that some people (1) can’t read (2)can’t maintain focus for more than two minutes (3) are too lazy and spoiled by receiving their news and information in picture form and five second sound bytes to make any real effort to understand the issues. I suppose that in many ways it would be viewed as discrimination against the uneducated, illegals and vapid airheads who make their decisions based on hairstyle, dress and personal appearance. Those seem to be the very first things that decisions are based on today. Many people never get beyond them.
Besides, I’ve had it up to my ears with questions. Questions have been Fox News stock and trade. They ask the question and then give ten answers; win, win. I want to hear some answers without some media airhead running interference while the answers are being given and without some talking head telling me what they really said and what they really meant. As far as I’m concerned, they’re the equivalent of lying signers for the deaf.
But, such is the society we’ve become. The most important matters pertaining to the well being and survival of our country are being decided by a majority of functional illiterates. Maybe someday, we’ll be smart enough to make voting in elections subject to some kind of standard besides being inside the borders. That is, if we survive.
These debates are so tiresome.
The format remains unchanged.
Having 16 people in one debate is absurd.
We had 8 in 2012 and that was almost unmanageable.
We had 10 for Fox and we all know how that turned out.
Now we will have 16.
Might as well have the entire Mormon Tabernacle Choir up there.
All the debates do is get soundbites for the opposition and raise the profile of the media types conducting them.