This may be an odd idea, but it seems like CNBC was set up by the RNC. Let them send out their most biased people with their most loaded questions so it was obvious to everyone. And then have the candidates tee off, people like Christie and Cruz who know how to deal with hecklers.
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(Now, if I were the GOP I would not admit that….)
That would have been a not bad plan. And, plan or not, it worked well. One reason I think that wasn’t the plan is Jeb’s reaction: he was apparently not on board with the whole US vs THEM thing.
Had such a plan existed – as a plan – there’s almost no way Jeb! *wouldn’t* have heard about it, eh?
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I think there’s something to the idea, trying for an “I paid for this microphone!”** moment, but earlier in the cycle…
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I had a near-parallel thought .. the RNC set someone up .. not CNBC, though .. their own candidates.
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That’d keep Bush et al in the dark, and is a valid thing – Romney did relatively well among friendly media, then crashed when the press (inevitably) turned hostile.
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So … RNC plan – put a candidate debate on the worst possible network, with the worst possible moderators .. get ’em in the kitchen *early* and see who can take the heat.
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I don’t really blame CNBC .. I mean, I’m disgusted with ’em, but .. they are what they are. The candidates *should have known* what they were carrying across the river.***
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Mew
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** Classical Reagan reference
*** Neo-classical fable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
The candidates *should have known* what they were carrying across the river.***
Or the one about the human who saved an almost-frozen rattlesnake, and was bitten when the snake warmed up.
Yeah, but that one sounds like a newspaper article, not Aesop on a depressed bender.
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Mew
Alternate thought: the RNC wanted to advantage the squishes, and disadvantage the conservatives and populists.
It backfired, but both Kasich and Jeb played ball. Both were more than happy to join the moderators in denouncing the other candidates.
Another thought is that it neutralizes any other “Crowley Moments” for the eventual nominee. All the nominee would need to say is “here we go again” and “I didn’t know you worked for CNBC” and hit the macro for “MSM bias” that everyone is going to have, especially all observers and professional pundits.
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Oft evil will evil mar.*
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*Classic reference.
True, and bonus points for another classic Reagan ref.
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Mew
This may be an odd idea, but it seems like CNBC was set up by the RNC. Let them send out their most biased people with their most loaded questions so it was obvious to everyone. And then have the candidates tee off, people like Christie and Cruz who know how to deal with hecklers.
.
(Now, if I were the GOP I would not admit that….)
That would have been a not bad plan. And, plan or not, it worked well. One reason I think that wasn’t the plan is Jeb’s reaction: he was apparently not on board with the whole US vs THEM thing.
Had such a plan existed – as a plan – there’s almost no way Jeb! *wouldn’t* have heard about it, eh?
.
I think there’s something to the idea, trying for an “I paid for this microphone!”** moment, but earlier in the cycle…
.
I had a near-parallel thought .. the RNC set someone up .. not CNBC, though .. their own candidates.
.
That’d keep Bush et al in the dark, and is a valid thing – Romney did relatively well among friendly media, then crashed when the press (inevitably) turned hostile.
.
So … RNC plan – put a candidate debate on the worst possible network, with the worst possible moderators .. get ’em in the kitchen *early* and see who can take the heat.
.
I don’t really blame CNBC .. I mean, I’m disgusted with ’em, but .. they are what they are. The candidates *should have known* what they were carrying across the river.***
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Mew
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.
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** Classical Reagan reference
*** Neo-classical fable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
The candidates *should have known* what they were carrying across the river.***
Or the one about the human who saved an almost-frozen rattlesnake, and was bitten when the snake warmed up.
Yeah, but that one sounds like a newspaper article, not Aesop on a depressed bender.
.
Mew
Alternate thought: the RNC wanted to advantage the squishes, and disadvantage the conservatives and populists.
It backfired, but both Kasich and Jeb played ball. Both were more than happy to join the moderators in denouncing the other candidates.
Another thought is that it neutralizes any other “Crowley Moments” for the eventual nominee. All the nominee would need to say is “here we go again” and “I didn’t know you worked for CNBC” and hit the macro for “MSM bias” that everyone is going to have, especially all observers and professional pundits.
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Oft evil will evil mar.*
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*Classic reference.
True, and bonus points for another classic Reagan ref.
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Mew