Newshoggers Comments
Caught a bit of it, and I agree with you. I still find Huckabee to be the most scary, because he almost looks and sounds sane. The actual views are crazy, but he has a slick salesman persona that the media will promote as "real American" and the general public will buy. This election isn't in the bag yet.
Huckabee scares me too. But I think he would be the one most likely to self-destruct in the general. Romney scares me more. I watched him win the MA governor's race and that was one he should have lost.
If global warming is that important of a topic, why not let the candidates actually talk about it, rather than just ask for a quick show of hands.
The moderator sucked. Big time.
Let's see how easy she makes things on the Dem's tomorrow.
I'll be interested in seeing that as well jeff.
The other thing to keep in mind is this: if one's position on global warming can be summed up by a quick show of hands, why did it take Al Gore an entire movie to explain his position?
I just wish there was more dialogue and more time. It's not fair to the candidates to only have 30-60 seconds to answer a question (it was actually two questions in one) which can't be answered fully and accurately with a simple "yes" or "no" answer.
You can't cover everything in 90 minutes Jeff. As I said, the format wasn't perfect but I like that they had all the candidates for the most part answer the same questions.
In terms of the climate Q, given that it's a too big an issue to do it justice in such a limited format, I thought the handraise was a good way to get them on record. It was a simple yes or no question. Do you believe it's a serious problem or not? There was no implication of causation in the Q, so what's the problem, really?
I think it shows how little credibility you have when you have ANYTHING good to say about Alan Keyes. What a moron. Why was he even there?
And, that moderator was extremely rude. Perhaps the worst I've ever seen in ANY debate. Yeah, some of them ramble on too much -- but, what can you learn about ANYONE with just 30 second quips?
Yeah BC, Libby described him as as coming across like an axe murderer. That's a hell of a nice thing to say about Keyes. She should be ashamed of herself 
Did you even read the post?
Sheesh...drive-by commenters.
Regards, C
Astounding. I saw a comment somewhere else that accused me of liking Keyes. Crazy.
Meanwhile, I do seem to be the only person on earth who liked Washburn's moderation. I guess because I'm old and it reminded me of the formats they used to use in the 'old days.'
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