Any sport fan will tell you that if you leave the game talking about the umpire or referee, that official did an awful job. The same thing goes when talking about political debates.

In the crucial second debate between President Obama and Challenger Mitt Romney in October 2012, Candy Crowley acted as more than a moderator at the Hofstra town hall-type debate, she was an active participant not allowing Romney to answer Obama’s attacks, even fact-checking the GOP candidate (with incorrect facts).

On Monday night's Hugh Hewitt Show, former GOP Candidate Mitt Romney finally voiced his frustration for the way Candy Crowley moderated the pivotal second debate at Hofstra University:

Well, I don’t think it’s the role of the moderator in a debate to insert themselves into the debate and to declare a winner or a loser on a particular point. And I must admit that at that stage, I was getting a little upset at Candy, because in a prior setting where I was to have had the last word, she decided that Barack Obama was to get the last word despite the rules that we had. So she obviously thought it was her job to play a more active role in the debate than was agreed upon by the two candidates, and I thought her jumping into the interaction I was having with the President was also a mistake on her part, and one I would have preferred to carry out between the two of us, because I was prepared to go after him for misrepresenting to the American people that the nature of the attack.