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Debate co-chair: ´Mistake´ to have Candy
Crowley moderate presidential debate

Politico, by Dylan Byers

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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/20/2013 6:05:53 AM

Frank Fahrenkopf, a co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said tonight that the Commission made a "mistake" by selecting CNN anchor Candy Crowley to moderate one of the 2012 presidential debates. Fahrenkopf, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, was speaking at the Las Vegas Country Club in Nevada. According to Jon Ralston, the Nevada-based political journalist, Fahrenkopf told the audience there that he was proud of the 2012 debate moderators, but added: “We made one mistake this time: Her name is Candy."

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Judge, 2/20/2013 6:07:05 AM     (No. 9186101)

Ya think?


Reply 2 - Posted by: DoktorFranken, 2/20/2013 6:11:42 AM     (No. 9186107)

How very timely.....


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: steveracer, 2/20/2013 6:14:49 AM     (No. 9186112)

Republicans are really really stupid. They get taken to the cleaners every time.


Reply 4 - Posted by: pickle1, 2/20/2013 6:15:10 AM     (No. 9186113)

Why is that Frank? Could it be you have the same agenda as the dimwits?


Reply 5 - Posted by: Jethro bo, 2/20/2013 6:17:37 AM     (No. 9186117)

Presidential debates are opportunities for Rebublicans to show how completely they will surrender to the Kneepads. I have to see a debate moderator that was anything less than totally committed to the Marxist/Lenin/Stalin doctrine of total annihilation of liberty.


Reply 6 - Posted by: bpl40, 2/20/2013 6:19:44 AM     (No. 9186122)

Three socialists all debating each other.


Reply 7 - Posted by: pineledger, 2/20/2013 6:29:01 AM     (No. 9186138)

No duh. With friends like this...


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: JLoophole, 2/20/2013 6:32:43 AM     (No. 9186144)

What is with these people? Do they never, ever just stand back a ways and look at the bigger picture before deciding these things?

Leading from behindsight...useless in the extreme.


Reply 9 - Posted by: mickeymat, 2/20/2013 6:37:27 AM     (No. 9186154)

What #3 said. Don´t these so called Republican leaders ever watch the news? Pick any regular reader of Lucianne and they know more about the opposition than do these dopes.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Janjan, 2/20/2013 6:40:53 AM     (No. 9186160)

The media should be barred completely from moderating debates. They are not objective nor particularly even well informed. The debates are staged as a Democrat campaign rally and Republicans fall for this over and over again.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Trigger2, 2/20/2013 6:51:45 AM     (No. 9186177)

No kidding Sherlock...


Reply 12 - Posted by: djcdjc, 2/20/2013 6:54:36 AM     (No. 9186184)

Unfair, un-balanced, unconscionable.....


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: cartcart, 2/20/2013 7:13:11 AM     (No. 9186215)

I left the Republican party because the leadership in it is so stupid.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Spidey, 2/20/2013 7:15:18 AM     (No. 9186222)

This is craziness,one of these left wing hack journalists is as bad as the next. The republicans should insist on someone like Brit Hume or not even attend the debates. It´s hard to believe there´s any republicans on these debate committees.It´s just like Gwen Ifill who was there in 2008 while working on a book praising Obama.


Reply 15 - Posted by: JAN, 2/20/2013 7:15:45 AM     (No. 9186225)

Next time they´ll have Tom Brokejaw and Chollie Rose. And of course, rachel madcow as the female moderator.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Fiesta del sol, 2/20/2013 7:34:32 AM     (No. 9186266)

Only one mistake? Holy mackerel. These are the people who chose George Stephanopolous to moderate a Republican primary!!! debate. The one where Stephanopolous asked Mitt if he wanted to outlaw birth control. The stupidity of the establishment GOP is criminal.


Reply 17 - Posted by: suziesuburbanite, 2/20/2013 7:41:22 AM     (No. 9186276)

I´m waiting for the day that they rue picking a moderator that was too far right.. I figure in 2199


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: god of irony, 2/20/2013 7:43:56 AM     (No. 9186282)

If he was too stupid to see this before the debate then he is too stupid for his job.


Reply 19 - Posted by: antiquegolf, 2/20/2013 7:53:03 AM     (No. 9186295)

It doesn´t appear that any certified, loyal Republicans serve on the debate commission. For in the past 5 or 6 elections, the Presidential debates were obviously rigged in favor of democrats, especially the town hall format, which is a travesty. As is often suggested by Ldot posters, insist on Fox News hosting at least one debate. Don´t agree to any lefty moderators. Let the democrats whine and cry.


Reply 20 - Posted by: NancyD, 2/20/2013 7:53:28 AM     (No. 9186299)

#8 the answer to that is NO.

They don´t think of the affects of their poor decisions have on the GOP Candidate.

They are MORE interested in the appearance of "getting Along" or being labeled as "Reasonable".

They don´t want the Dems on the debate committee to go to the media and whine that the GOP debate co-chair won´t allow certain moderators.

The GOP leaders at ALL levels are weak, cowardly, and timid.

They are the type of people who would ALLOW the University of Wisconsin-Duluth professor print all kinds of demeaning words all over their faces. Without a doubt.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Crosscut, 2/20/2013 8:14:29 AM     (No. 9186334)

Next debates should be chaired by Bill O´Reilly, Mark Levine, Sean Hannity, Anne Coulter, Britt Hume and Laura Ingraham.


Reply 22 - Posted by: TunnelRat, 2/20/2013 8:27:43 AM     (No. 9186359)

No more Candy Crowley. The Republicans already have a request in for Piers Morgan...


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: thelmalou, 2/20/2013 8:42:42 AM     (No. 9186388)

Stupid idiots. She even TOLD them she was gonna butt in, and they let her remain as moderator. Morons.


Reply 24 - Posted by: melanie, 2/20/2013 8:49:15 AM     (No. 9186404)

I admit it is probably hard to throw, or even fit Candy under the bus, but she is just one of a long line of bad choices for moderator.


Reply 25 - Posted by: OhMy, 2/20/2013 8:50:36 AM     (No. 9186406)

The republicans should get somebody like Mark Levin as the debate moderator. He would have challenged Obama for sure but he would not let Romney off scott free either. At least the GOP should demand debate moderators who have some opposition to the democrat agenda on their records.


Reply 26 - Posted by: Boneshaker, 2/20/2013 8:53:12 AM     (No. 9186416)

It worked out pretty well for the airheaded, half-black Boy Wonder.

Big Mama Candy with her false facts running to the rescue of the skinny pretty boy politician perfectly defines the state of the media today.

The Founding Fathers fought to guarantee the press would be free. Today the American press has spit on the Founders and voluntarily given up its freedom to become a willing lapdog for an incompetent poser.


Reply 27 - Posted by: finally50, 2/20/2013 8:55:54 AM     (No. 9186425)

Where is it written that debate moderators have to be news readers? Why not a high school teacher, a businessman/woman, a local preacher?


Reply 28 - Posted by: skedaddle, 2/20/2013 8:57:51 AM     (No. 9186430)

I don´t think "Republicans" that do these things over and over are stupid; I think they do it on purpose. I have resigned myself to not having a viable political party that represents my views and the sooner we refresh the Republican Party with people who make Karl Rove´s head spin, the sooner we´ll effectively fight back against the communist insurgency that´s currently winning.


Reply 29 - Posted by: udanja99, 2/20/2013 8:58:21 AM     (No. 9186432)

Ya think, DiNozzo?


Reply 30 - Posted by: WhamDBambam, 2/20/2013 9:03:08 AM     (No. 9186446)

Ah, yes, "Mistakes were made." Of course.


Reply 31 - Posted by: msjena, 2/20/2013 9:03:24 AM     (No. 9186448)

When will Republicans get smart and refuse to participated in these debates unless moderators from Fox News or the Wall Street Journal or other conservative news organizations are included? Candy Crowley should have been the last straw.


Reply 32 - Posted by: M2, 2/20/2013 9:06:57 AM     (No. 9186452)

"Better to ask forgiveness than permission."

Thanks a lot, but a day late and trillions of dollars short, Frank.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Freeloader, 2/20/2013 9:30:22 AM     (No. 9186494)

And just how many election cycles has this leftist moderator "madness" been going on?

I tried to warn the dumb Republican smucks at the Commission on Presidential Debates, several times last year, that CNN´s Ms. Crowley could not be "bought off" with just a five-pound box of Godiva Chocolates!


Reply 34 - Posted by: horacer, 2/20/2013 10:12:04 AM     (No. 9186608)

At the Country Club, how appropriate. Frank´s been head of the American Gaming Association for years. I´m sure he´s best buds with Harry Reid. He´s not going to look out for the GOP.


Reply 35 - Posted by: broken01, 2/20/2013 11:57:11 AM     (No. 9186823)

Boy I could´ve told you that. The Republicans do this every election cycle. They need fix the mess or we´re going to have nutballs like Soledad Obrien or a Mike Malloy in 16 "helping out" the dimwitocrat candidate.



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