I say so called, because in my ole' head, it wasn't a debate so much as it was a two hour session of creating sound bites, Not just the candidates, as the questioners also seemed determined to see who could ask the biggest 'gotcha' question among themselves.
Not even mentioning Chris Wallace's stupid question of New Gingrich regarding staff, I thought that the Washington Examiner's Byron York's question of Michelle Bachmann on 'submission' to her husband left the plane of stupidity and approached the level of misogyny!
When I went to bed, I couldn't sleep and had a wild idea..... like next year once the conventions are over and they have debates between the two candidates ---
The two candidates walk in and stand behind their respective lecterns -- no notes, no crib sheets... the Moderator says:
"Mr R, you have often commented on how you would solve our fiscal problems. You have up to five minutes to state your case. Then Mr D gets five minutes of rebuttal, then you get two minutes to come back and then Mr D gets two minutes, then you both get a minute. If either of you run over your allotted time, it will be subtracted from your rebuttal time and conversely - you can save time for rebuttal if you choose. You'll each have a total of exactly ten minutes per topic.
We moderators will only keep the time - other than that we'll stay out of it... When this twenty minute segment is over, we'll introduce the next subject and start all over again.
just so you can be thinking about it - although we won't address them all tonight - possible topics are: Energy, jobs, entitlements, deployment of troops overseas, ................etc etc
Mr R - by the flip of a coin, you get to start."
Now wouldn't that be refreshing???
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