January 19, 2012

Are The GOP Debaters Foolish Enough to Take CNN's Bait?

By C. Edmund Wright
So CNN's executives have let it slip (at least to Drudge*) that they are "going to let them just go at it" in what they are calling the "Republican Debate of the Year" tonight in South Carolina. Let me translate:  'We are going to do our damndest to get the candidates to go at each other and totally ignore Barack Obama.  We're going to ask those cute little questions like 'Governor Romney, with Speaker Gingrich standing right here, will you say to his face that he's the biggest son of a blah blah blah..... ' So please tell me, Republican candidates, that you are not foolish enough to fall for this.  Please?  No one has gained anything in this cycle in the debates by trashing other Republicans. (more on that later) Quite the opposite in fact.  Consider the travails of Newt: Gingrich had an unprecedented standing ovation from most of the crowd Monday night in a now famous exchange with Juan Williams.  To gain that kind of amazing response, Newt uttered not...(Read Full Article)