Prediction: Bob Schieffer is going to taint moderation in rMoney's favor.

[closeupready]

He'll probably do a sort of 'counter-correction' to 'balance out' Crowley's mid-debate correction of rMoney's claims about the timing of Obama's characterization of Libya as 'a terrorist act'.

[msanthrope]

1. Of course he is---but President Obama will be prepared. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I'm not worried about Bob Schieffer's taint.

He's generally a tougher questioner than Lehrer and probably won't let Mittens run over him; and while he probably won't do any mid-debate fact-checking, he's been around long enough to have a reputation to consider. I think he will try to be fair (although, of course, the definition of "fair" might be subject to interpretation).

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Odds are,10 to 1 he

losses control right out of the gate. What do you expect from the guy who help take out Dan Rather,and save CBS's ass. By the way,this turd was Old man Bush's golf Partner,just another hack from Texass. So much for Infotainment,huh.

[closeupready]

7. Oh, yeah, got that right. I remember ALL that.

He's a total GOP shill, and if Republicans are complaining, well, you know they'd complain about left-wing bias if a teleprompter was moderating.

[SCliberal091294]

4. I dont think he will...

Republicans are angry that hes the moderator.

[sharp_stick]

5. I'll wait and see

It was funny to see the how fast the wind direction changed regarding Candy Crowley before, during and after the last debate.

People went from calling her a willing lackey of the RNC and Karl Rove's drinking buddy to the greatest living moderator of a Presidential debate within an hour.

[PSPS]

6. LOL

[Mike Daniels]

10. The pre-emptive hand-wringing on both sides over the moderators is getting pretty old

If for no other reason than both campaigns approved the moderators when the debates were being organized.

[liberal N proud]

8. Depends on which Schieffer shows up for the night.

[Enrique]

9. I like him least of all the moderators

I liked Candy Crowley, even before that debate. She reminds me of Wolf Blitzer, someone else who gets a lot of crap which imho is off the mark.

Shieffer seems to me to have a problem with relevance, which I think works in the RW's favor. He seems to dwell on bipartisanship and "tone" even more than the rest of the media. I fear he will ask mostly irrelevant questions like Martha Raddatz's waste of a question about the tone of the campaign. I don't know how he's going to do that with foreign policy, maybe he'll just dumb the whole thing down. If the foreign policy debate is conducted at a dumb level, that favors Romney.

[Arkana]

11. To be fair, we said this about Candy Crowley.

I think Schieffer's going to try and be on his best behavior tonight.

[freshwest]

12. Agreed.

[reformist2]

13. Naw, Bob Schieffer seems like an Obama guy to me. :)

[bigtree]

14. likely, but he's hit hard the other way before

. . .at inconvenient times for the opposition (maybe not in this election -- haven't watched)

[4_TN_TITANS]

15. Why wouldn't he roll over and play softball

like he does any given Sunday? Scheiffer is all about not stepping on (R) toes.