YouTube Debate Too Scary for GOP
Only days after the Democratic YouTube debate in South Carolina, and there are already more than 400 questions uploaded to Youtube for the GOP debate.
But apparently, Guiliani is not going to show, and Romney says he's just not a fan of the people-centered CNN/YouTube debate format.
According to GOP party "functionary" Hugh Hewitt, the conservative white men are chickening out because YouTube and CNN have that famous liberal bias.
Over at TPM, a couple of other possibilities have been suggested:
"You realize why Rudy doesn't like the YouTube debate format, right? He doesn't want the NY fire fighter's to get a clean shot at him on national TV."
"The differences between the GOP base and the political mainstream can seem less extreme when asked by someone like Wolf Blitzer, but if presented from the standard GOP rank-and-file member of the base, it seemed like a great way to show how unhinged the GOP has become on some of these issues."
It's also true that some conservative white men are running scared about the certainty that they would find themselves on the receiving end of some hard questions from gays, immigrants, blacks, women, children, as well as folks from all the other groups the GOP so loves to hate.
According to Republican spokeswoman Erin VanSickle, the Florida debate is just too important to miss. "It’s an important debate in an important battleground state that just moved its primary to Jan. 29th. In other words, we have every confidence that they will attend. They can’t afford not to."
"They can't afford not to," unless all of the Republican candidates are already losers. So far, only losers John McCain and Ron Paul are signed on for the oooh scary people-centered debate.
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