Republicans to abandon YouTube debates?

Oh noes! We don't want to face questions from cancer patients removing wigs, homos, and anyone else who isn't Fox News! Via Ana Marie Cox at Swampland:

I talked to people from a few of the campaigns today and they say that the movement to abandon the format is real. Romney's mocked the event outright, Giuliani's people told Ambinder that "scheduling" was an issue (insert Iraq Study Group joke here) but I've heard from others that many in the GOP feel that the deck in a YouTube debate would be somehow stacked against the candidates. Are they dodging "real" Americans in favor for a more tightly scripted event? Payback for the Dems skipping Fox in some weird televisual karmic sense? (OR is Fox pressuring them to do so? Hmmm.) I'd be wary about the event if I were a candidate myself, but if they do manage to kill the thing, I'll be disappointed.