Phil, yes YouTube is about as far from the Lincoln Douglas
debates as you can get but the actual questions were not bad at all
and in some sense more "fair" than the average snarling question
from a MSM moderator. I wonder if Romney is reluctant to join not
only because of the debasement issue but because of concern about
the miles of YouTube footage out there on his 1994 and 2002
statements on social issues, Ronald Reagan, etc.. Even for him,
better to be there to explain it than to let his opponents bang him
over the head with the issues in his absence.