How New Media Could Do A Primary Debate For Republicans

Captain's Quarters updates with multiple links on the great debate debate of 07 08. While I understand why many would simply dismiss new media actually holding their own debate, I think it's partly because they fail to appreciate some of the structures which already exist and the dynamics of a primary debate, which would allow for even a polarized new media to stretch itself a bit in this regard. It may not happen this go round, but I'd all but expect it for 2012.

It's a Republican Primary and I would think that some collection of organizations from the likes of the Heritage Foundation, the Media Research Center, the American Enterprise Institute, and others, could lend a blogger led effort some support to deal with issues such as finding a location and the actually very little bit of technology required to pull it off.

As for a moderator, given that new media includes talk radio, I can think of a number of less than controversial polished professionals who could do the job. As for questions - well, do you want to inform, or entertain?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what questions are actually important to Republican primary voters today: immigration reform, Iraq, Social Security, the direction of the Supreme Court, etc.

It would not take all that much to put together a forum and format that allowed the current contenders to come together and interactively address a dozen of the more pressing questions for Republican primary voters with the resulting footage being available episodically via MySpace and on blogs.

Comments

[DANEgerus]

Why YouTube? Why are they skipping right over bloggers?

Just take the top dozen conservative blogs, by traffic, and let them all submit a dozen questions compiled from comments on their blogs and the (R)epublican candidates make the connection they've been needing since day one.

[IslamoLlama]

Here's an idea. As blogging is a daily event, the conservative movement could organize some sort of yearly event that would gather together a great number of conservative bloggers in a convention-style setting. This event could be used to fundraise for favorite candidates and for up-and-coming candidates to pander to their base. It could be used to get bloggers in face-to-face contact with each other and with the readership. And it could be used as a pulpit from which a debate could conceivably be held if candidates were to accept invitations.

We could call this even YearlyKos. Oh, no wait. That's the name for the liberal convention that will host all three of the top-tier Democratic candidates along with a host of other wanna-be front-runners and Congresscritters both elected and aspiring. In fact, its the one that is getting top billing every election season from both liberal networks like CBS and conservative networks like FOX. DailyKos is, in fact, exactly what you would aspire towards. Instead, you guys got RedState.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Enjoy.