Will there be debates? Will there ever be real debates again?

[tinanator]

I cant imagine much more than a serial live campaign ad performance. Do we deserve better than we get in these shams?

[Zen]

1. Well, you can be sure the "Rove cowards" won't be volunteering for

any good formats - if any at all. They are serial cowards!

[meti57b]

2. we'll be lucky if there is an election, let alone debates.

[lanparty]

3. Kerry will really have to gode the Busheviks ...

I think they need to to take the debate over debates public. They need to goad the Bush campaign and make Dubaya look like he's afraid to debate Kerry.

This will back Bush into a corner. If he doesn't agree to a certain number of debates where candidates are allowed to confront each other, he will look like a coward. If he agrees to take Kerry on directly, he will look like an idiot.

[movonne]

4. Maybe when the repugs get a president that has and IQ above 30.

[AndyTiedye]

5. Rove Gets to Pick the Moderator and Write All the Questions

and the above conditions (and the questions) must be kept secret
from the Democrats and the public. Otherwise no deal.

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. Debates can be scheduled...

...and debates can be cancelled, especially after the 'terrorist incident' scheduled for the end of September.

"America's Popular Wartime President ^tm is too busy personally conducting the latest offensive in the Global War on Terra ^tm to take time off to do anything as partisan as debate."

[Poiuyt]

7. We need a debate

like the old "Point-Counterpoint," like on 60 Minutes. I would love to see the two candidates facing each other and actually debating.

[tinanator]

8. absolutely right

our personal vetting process was dismantled by bipartisan decree.

[Yupster]

9. When have there ever been

real debates among presidential nominees?

I don't ever remember any.

[tinanator]

10. when the League of Women Voters had control

was close enough in comparison to the joke foisted upon us now.

[devilgrrl]

11. If there are debates, they will resemble Tom Tomorrow's latest...

It won't be a debate, it'll end up like an interview with questioners tossing in some of their own snarky quips. You watch!