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GOPs unsolvable debate mess: Why RNCs new reform plan is doomedThe right is convinced that biased debate moderators made their candidates look bad. Here's its brilliant solution
JIM NEWELL
The Republican National Committee came to a firm conclusion following the 2012 presidential primaries: The more its candidates are on public display with each other, the worse it is for the party. They should be credited for this realization. But will limiting the number of debates, as the RNC has voted indirectly to do, change the effects of the debates that survive?
On Friday, the RNC gave final approval to chairman Reince Priebus plan for comprehensive debate reform. Its a modified carrot-and-sticks approach, by which we mean there are no carrots. (Its a sticks approach.) Politico reports:
A group of 13 RNC members, essentially operating under the control of party Chairman Reince Priebus, will choose the timing, location and media partners of the 2015-2016 Republican primary debates. They will insist that conservative panelists join moderators from the mainstream media.
To make it stick, the plan would crack down on candidates who participate in debates that arent sanctioned by the party by barring them from ones that are.
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mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)It is the debates that make the candidates look bad. Not the bile they spew from their mouths.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)that it is impossible for Rush Limbaugh to do a debate because the networks do the debates. Somebody from ABC, CBS, or NBC does the debates and those who work for those networks conduct them. Until the conservatives have their own MAJOR network, they need to work with who is available on those networks. They never like my answer which I say too bad.
rock
(13,218 posts)no comment
BeyondGeography
(39,382 posts)and they can't/won't admit it.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The republicans will believe their own lies. They will live in their own Rush Limbaugh-Fox News-bubble during the GOP-primaries...
But those primaries will end one day.
And then their precious coddled and pampered candidate will suddenly face journalists who don't care about securing a place on a panel.
The GOP-candidate will face evil bullying by the man-hating harpy Hillary Clinton who will do such satanic things as asking for proof when he claims something.
Sure GOP, raise your candidate in a bubble. I'm sure, democrats won't mind fighting against a Mitt Romney for a second time.
MissMillie
(38,582 posts)It's that simple.
Bettie
(16,129 posts)And yet, they'll still look like a bunch of jackwads.
OK. Go for it, boys!