GOP Candidates Duck Republican YouTube Debate

"Daylight and reason are like wingnut kryptonite..."

During the Democratic YouTube, many people in the
comments suggested that the GOP candidates could never survive this format.
That without a reliably neutered journalist who cared too much about access to
Lynn Cheney’s fabulous chili to risk putting any of them on the spot, they
really wouldn’t be able to function. That looks to be somewhat
prophetic. They’re all looking like a bunch of girl’s blouses and are
refusing to commit to CNN’s GOP YouTube debate.




I really liked the YouTube format — I found the questions fresh and often
fearless, and with it CNN managed to attract the 18-34 year-old audience in
record numbers. I have no doubt that Mitt Romney and his penchant for
dissembling looked upon the spectacle with horror. Canned hunts and canned
audiences are GOP specialties, because the fantasy life of lizard brains can
only survive in hermetically sealed environments. Daylight and reason are like
wingnut kryptonite (but lo hear them caterwaul about the value of “free speech”
when you don’t want their racist, genocidal ranting in your comment section —
suddenly they’re all Bobby Seale).