Redstate:Politics As Entertainment, Endless GOP Debates Edition

I'm getting the feeling that conservatives are using media bias as a crutch-

Candidates such as Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and Jon Huntsman would likely have never had the slightest chance of success without the debates to give them a hearing.

No.  There's nothing wrong with Cain or Huntsman from what I could see from the debates.  Bachmann may have done better if she wouldn't ankle bite the flavor of the month candidate at each debate.

If there was a baseball-style scorecard to keep, we’d be keeping it. We count the number of gaffes, one-liners and figurative body blows as if we were tracking a pitcher’s ERA or a goaltender’s GAA.

Cain didn't get taken out because of his debate performances.  If anyone did on that score, it would have been Perry.

The consistently poor debate moderation has not helped matters.

I've heard some complaints about the moderation on Saturday and Sunday's debates.  I thought Gregory did a fine job.  I don't like Stephanopolous, but his question on the Griswold decision actually gave Romney a chance to hit it out of the park, but he flubbed it.

 I would place my bets on an intentional effort to poison the GOP candidate field.

Paranoia.  If you can't hit the ball out of the park even when the "pitcher" throws you a hanging curve, then you must not be a good hitter.  Don't cry foul when the fault lies within yourself.

The concern this election season is not the death of culture, it’s the death of our nation.

Yes, and if your leaders don't care enough to change the process in a sensible way so as to yield the benefits that you are claiming to want to achieve, then don't blame the media.  You knew what they were before it all started.

What could have been done?  Invite the candidates who met your qualifications to a debate which would be moderated by one of your own.  For example, have a debate with a few of the conservative candidates and then choose between them.  That individual would then represent the conservative wing of the party in subsequent debates amongst the complete field.

But if you are going to allow the liberals to moderate a debate from an entire field and then complain later that a moderate won the nomination, then you seem to me be "nothing but a hound dog crying all the time".