Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius said of the Republican presidential candidates complaining about the CNBC debate, “I can’t imagine it’s going to be effective with the electorate as whole that people are looking for someone who can be commander in chief and that’s not the person who whines about media coverage.”
After a clip of President Obama mocking the GOP candidates complaints Ignatius said, “I thought it was a great line. And I thought there some was truth to it. The Republican debate may have been a disaster for the media asking the questions, but I didn’t think the Republican candidates came out very well. And all the squabbling, unfair, the media’s so mean, they’re asking nasty questions. I think that makes Republican candidates it diminishes them. And if they stay on that, it may work with some Republican primary base voters, but I can’t imagine it’s going to be effective with the electorate as whole that people are looking for someone who can be commander-in-chief and that’s not the person who whines about media coverage.”
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