How you can watch tonight’s GOP presidential main debate

A few of the candidates will have had significant debate experience – Sen. We want this to be an active debate. There is an even greater chance that it could totally be upended by the theatrics of debates and politics in general.

Hewitt said MacCallum had taken the worldview of the New York Times’ editorial board and put it into a question when she asked whether cutting funding to Planned Parenthood would be seen as a front in the “war on women”.

The majority of criticism for Fox, however, came from media figures who were unimpressed with the uninspired questions, and for the failure on part of the moderators to push the nine candidates to clarify their respective positions. The heart, not the head, is the proper target. “So it’s better for me to be like you to watch what happens in the debate and then analyze after the fact”. This is fine in a football game, but not in a debate. Think back to 1988 when Democratic vice presidential candidate, Lloyd Bentsen, said to his Republican opponent, Dan Quayle, “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine”. But you failed to beat Mitt Romney for the nomination…. If you’re not popular in your own state, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, how do you expect to take on the country? I hope they’ll do better this time, but the signs are not encouraging.

And then, the conversation moved to Trump…

“There are no wallflowers in the group”, Wallace said of himself and his two colleagues.

BODY LANGUAGE COUNTS: Non-verbal cues are at least as important as verbal cues in determining whether or not voters feel comfortable with a candidate. Don’t be that guy. They could start, at least, by allowing them a live audience. And even with all the hype, there won’t be 10 million people watching the debate live.

Reagan had success with a similar crack at a 1980 debate during the New Hampshire primary. Don’t say them. Especially if they are agreeable terms and you are about to disagree. What matters to them the most. What do you need to do to generate that kind of coverage? “One or two of the folks debating in minutes could be premier players in days”, Cavuto promised. You have to respect the debate.

YOU ARE ALWAYS “ON”: From the moment you walk onto the stage until the moment you leave, you will be on camera. Are you actually ready for a presidential race this time, former Texas governor Rick Perry?

“Everybody is going to know all the rules going in; there is going to be a sound at the end of their time – it won’t be a pleasant sound”, he said.

The candidates had an nearly impossible task from the get-go.