1. I've long thought that the behavior of liberal media figures moderating GOP primary debates shows it's foolhardy to pick moderators so far out of step with the people doing the actual voting. It tends to elevate issues primary voters don't care about & downplay what they do.
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8. The only fairness issue that matters in picking a primary moderator is having somebody who isn't on the team of one *primary* candidate over another. That was where CNN had problems with Donna Brazile. So the focus should be on honest brokers within the party.
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9. Now, is it irresistibly amusing to poke some fun at Democrats for wanting their primary to be a walled garden free of tough questions from the outside? Sure. It punctures some of their favorite pretensions. But at the end of the day, that's what the general election is for.
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10. We ought to have stronger parties that control their own message & live & die by how that message sells in November. This is a step in that direction, one I'd be happy to see Republicans imitate.
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Eh. What you’re proposing is really bad for the country. It just pushes us more towards echo chambers. Also ignores the fact that lots of neutral, well respected journalists will be moderating these debates. Folks like Jake Tapper & at the networks. To me, I’d have said to Fox
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We’ll do this on the Fox network. Or try to use it to generate some mechanism there to place some limits on the Hannitys of the world.
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