Republicans: Askeered of YouTube.

[americanstranger]

I think it's pretty funny that every Republican presidential wannabe - except for McCain and Ron Paul - have run away as fast as their spindly little legs could carry them from the YouTube debate (Josh Marshall has post up about it). There is much speculation as to why they're all quivering in their wingtips, and I'll add my theory.

A reader at Josh Marshall's place (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/015890.php) hit on the central point:

The differences between the GOP base and the political mainstream can seem less extreme when asked by someone like Wolf Blitzer, but if presented from the standard GOP rank-and-file member of the base, it seemed like a great way to show how unhinged the GOP has become on some of these issues.

Indeed. Imagine the looks on the wannabes' faces when the first Freeper showed up babbling about Hillary Xlintoon's plans to take over the world with the aid of the Freemasons, the World Bank and the Martians.

Imagine them all trying to hide behind their podiums when the first Fundie moron holds up a dead fetus in a jar.

Imagine the stutter- and stammer-fest that would occur when the first poster from Little Green Footballs demanded a commitment from them all to use nuclear weapons on the entire Middle East immediately upon taking office.

Too bad it's probably not going to happen. I didn't watch the YouTube debate with the Dem wannabes, but you could have bet your life savings I would have tuned in for the GOP edition. A finer hour of hilarity courtesy of the nutjob Republican base, you would probably never find. Too bad.

http://www.blah3.com/article.php?story=20070727134254393

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[Breeze54]

1. I think they're scared of what Democrats would ask!

;)

[Bongo Prophet]

2. Bok bok bok

Afraid of questions, afraid of their own racist genocidal base, all of that.
Years of fear mongering, race and class baiting, projection...how can they bear to look at that, or have some splash back on them?