Who is the hardest politican to debate with all time?

Question

I'd say Hitler. He was too much.

Answer 1

Genghis Khan would have been difficult to debate.

Answer 2

I apologize, as I don't have a name or suggestion to directly answer your question. But I would like to add my two cents, nonetheless.

I believe the 'type' of person most difficult to oppose in a debate is one who refuses to answer directly, and one who clearly does not listen the the comments being made by his/her opponent. So focussed are they on their own agenda that they do not follow the agenda of the debate. A simple and easy example is GWB in the last presidential debates. He called Kerry on his supposed hypocracy concerning the decision for war at the outset. Kerry answered the question directly. For the rest of the debates, however, Bush continued to drive his point home - the same one over and over. If he'd been listening, he would realize that the question was already resolved...and he should have moved on. But lacking in debating skills, not being a listener, and certainly not being a man who can think and talk on his feet - Bush continued to go back to that same issue over and over. I felt that it only served to make him look like a complete moron.

Answer 3

Hitler didn't debate. His kind smashes opposition, they don't reason with them. I'd say the toughest debater was Stephen Douglas. He went mano-a-mano several tiems with Abraham Lincoln before the 1858 Senate election. Douglas won the election. People must have been impressed with him from the debates.