The Bosque Boys

A note on the context of the debate rather than the content: "CNN/YouTube". That's beautiful. We've got MSM 2.0 (CNN is still relatively new compared to such media as the NYT or even CBS evening news), paired up with the archetype of Web 2.0. Candidate debates are typically a bunch of stuffy old guys trying hard to be polite to people they despise, while answering/evading questions posed by another stuffy old guy. (As stuffy old guys yourselves, I hope you don't take any offence..:). But now we've got a chance for some user input, for a broader audience, for at least an attempt to stay culturally relavant. (Although, I must admit, I still didn't watch it - not even online.)
So...do you guys think that this is an honest change, or harbinger of change, in the way we do politics, or is this just window-dressing in just another stuffy old guy attempt to look hip?

BTW, I generally avoid candidates before the Conventions, because I'm proud to be registered Independent (which in TX anyway means I can't vote until Nov.). That said, all of these guys seem pretty lame. Heck, from his article in Foreign Affairs, Rudy seems downright dangerous. Oh, that's fun, let get one-word takes on these guys: Rudy - dangerous; McCain - old; Fred - poser; Huckabee - genuine; Romney - stooge; Hunter - who?

Thanks for playing the one-word game, Mariner. Well done.

As for being a stuffy old guy, I couldn't agree more.

The YouTube debate is sort of fun. It is also the same sort of irrelevant gibberish all the other multi-candidate debates are with just a bit more buffoonery.

A few months ago (when Newt was proposing Lincoln-Douglas style debates), I read some of the debate records--and they are magnificent. Talk about a couple of stuffy old guys...

Anyhow, a modern-day L-D debate would clearly not work on TV. By the by, Hugh Hewitt is talking about having the Repubs on his show one night for three hours. That would be interesting.

Mariner, I resemble that remark. Though I prefer the title of old curmudgeon. Just remember, some day young women will call you sir and young men open doors for you. Your hair will be gray or gone, your waistline will not be what it is, and the force of gravity will seem stronger than you remember it being when you were young.

p.s. I would love it for Hugh Hewitt to have Repubs on for 3 hours, and also Dems with their own show. Perhaps campaign managers and poltical consultants get a level of hell near people in advertising.