I had to shake my head after listening to Chris Wallace, who just served as moderator during the 90-minute Republican debate on Fox News Channel, claim he was amazed that Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson did not insert themselves into the debate.
Unbelievable!
Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson did not insert themselves into the debate because Wallace geared nearly every question toward Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Mike Huckabee...and most of the questions involved attacks the three had made on each other.
It was more like Chris Wallace was attempting to get his "gotcha" moment and catch one of the three "front runners" making a mistake when he should have been trying to draw out the candidates on issues that are important to the electorate, both in New Hampshire and the rest of the country.
As far as ineptitude goes, this debate ranks right up there (or perhaps I should say down there) with the horrendous CNN-You Tube debates.
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Amen Randy! This debate, starting with its exclusion of Ron Paul, showed Fox's support of Romney. Huckabee was laughed at when he suggested a New York-DC axis of the GOP establishment, but he was right. Drudge, FNC and Rush are all backing blue blood Romney. Go to opensecrets.org and look at his donor list. It is almost identical to Obama's!
ReplyDeleteAnd what this means is that these people want Obama to be President. Romney is being set up as the fall guy. They know that tons of Republicans will sit out this election or vote for Ron Paul as a third party candidate before voting for Romney.
ReplyDeleteRomney is a feminist. He recently said of the Duke fake rape case and the new VAWA law that makes it easy to falsely accuse men of rape and abuse: "That's tough"
The debate did seem strangely geared toward playing out in Romney's favor, from the airing of his campaign attack ads near the start to the 30 minutes of fawning over his performance afterward. It became pretty transparent that this is the guy FNC has decided to back. The New Hampshire GOP made the right move in backing out.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds to me like Giuliani and Thompson are weak if they can't work themselves into a debate regardless of the circumstances.
ReplyDeleteThey don't sound like strong presidential material to me. We don't need wall flowers or people with no convictions.
Maybe the voters learned a lot from this.