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Democrat Media Hosting Republican Presidential Debates

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  November 12th, 2010 at 08:28 AM  | 

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Presidential primary politics has already begun to percolate into the media following the midterm elections.  There is now discussion of hosting the first GOP primary debate at the Reagan Library as early as this coming spring.  While many conservatives are upset that we are already contemplating debates before the field of candidates is set, I have another bone to pick concerning this development.

Politico announced yesterday that they will be sponsoring that debate at the Reagan Library along with …… NBC news!  This is astounding.  We have already ceded over the general election debates to be controlled and orchestrated by the Democrat media.  Do we need to have them moderate our own primary debates as well?  Keep in mind that these media types live in a very different world than we do, and their policy premises and understanding of the political dynamic makes them unqualified to moderate a debate among conservatives.

We should have at least one debate that is moderated by a panel of respected conservative journalists, talk radio figures, and others who would frame the debate in a meaningful way to conservatives. Yet, we are going to let those who garner vociferous antipathy towards conservatives have the opportunity to influence the selection of our leader!  Do we really need moderators who will ask the candidate what they will do to curb global warming?

Cross-posted to Red Meat Conservative

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  • Scope

    why do the Republicans have obvious left leaners to moderate any of the Republican debates. We want to know where our candidates stand on the issues, not how they would address the leftists policies and philosophies. We don’t need trick questions, we need to honestly ask the candidates where they are with respect to the center right American public. We really need to get control of our own side, and, stop allowing the left to define us. I include some on our own side, that would do nothing but to trip us and our candidates up, like Bill O’Reilly for example.

  • http://redmerrimack.blogspot.com/ charliebravoNH

    MSNBC has no business moderating Republican debates period. This why we need a strong RNC chair who will stand up for the party on the issue of primary debates.

    The NBC host whoever that is will be asking questions the public doesn’t care about that are designed to enhance inter party bickering.

    There will be some blow back over this, but the political risk is small considering it will be many months before the primaries them selves.

  • fpete13527

    The left has been allowed to run the prior debates and force a leftist agenda and bias. This needs to end.

    The first two or three debates, at least, need to be run by conservatives?.and if the Dems dont like it – let them implode and scream all they want – by themselves.

    The first debate should be run by Big Govt.com. The moderators should be Breitbart, Levin, and Sowell. I am dead serious.

    The real question is proposed by Doc in above comments. Will the RINO core of the GOP allow a debate to be about the things that the country really wants to see debated?

    Or will the GOP force to keep the debate porkily, “pragmatic,” progressive, liberal and bologna in order to distort how phony and liberal many of them are?..and want to remain?

  • Wine Country Dog

    to define any Republican potential candidate early on to fix them in position for their slime and smear campaign. The left has already filed dirt-mining FOI requests with the Pentagon. These early debates will also be seen by the campaign-weary public that does not follow politics as Republicans making noise way too early. They won’t realize that it’s the ELM (Extreme Left Media) that is behind it, deliberately trying to cause trouble and blunt the “campaigner-in-chief” criticism about 0bama – who has never stopped campaigning. “See, they’re the ones doing it – go complain about them!” will be 0bama’s new catchphrase to blame Republicans for everything.

    Why do Republicans keep on falling for these traps? Yes, I know they are the entrenched alleged Republicans that want to continue being the right wing of the Democrat party (aka fodder to be thrown under the 0bama bus) – but that has not worked out very well, for Republicans, conservatives, or the country.

    Any Republican candidate that shows up for one of these too-early “gotcha debates” run by the fringe left media is very likely to be off my list simply for being stupid. There is other work that needs to be done first to begin dismantling the 0bama regime’s overreach. What comes out of that project will be the grist for more interesting and realistic debates later on. There is absolutely no reason to hand over all of our election plans and strategies for the left’s examination.

  • lukematthews

    We are busy working hard building a conservative alternative to the Democratic Party-run media and to give the Journolisters at Politico and Obama’s pet poodles at NBC the moderating duties is an affront. We should demand people wanting our votes and money and voices to ignore this ‘debate’ and ask Nancy Reagan to host a real debate for conservatives. We should have Redstate, Townhall, The Blaze, Dailycaller, Hotair, or any of the other players moderate and Heritage Foundation as a sponsor. This is absurd to think the morons at Politico or National Barack Communications (NBC) are capable of understanding the answers much less knowing how to ask the questions of OUR potential nominee.
    No way should we just let this one go.

  • Mark Malcolm

    of our candidates (most of them anyway) after this past election. Getting the debate season started as early as possible will allow Republican infighting to surface as much juicy tidbits as possible the liberal/MSM can use later against whoever emerges as the front runner.

    We MUST make sure we either set the agenda or keep these early discussions civil with no much-raking or we have an up hill battle in 2012.

    In my personal opinion, if we have a three way race for president in 2012 Obama will win reelection.