The right is convinced that biased debate moderators made their candidates look bad

[DonViejo]

GOP’s unsolvable debate mess: Why RNC’s new reform plan is doomed

The 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. It’s a modified carrot-and-sticks approach, by which we mean there are no carrots. (It’s 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 aren’t sanctioned by the party — by barring them from ones that are.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/05/12/gops_unsolvable_debate_mess_why_rncs_new_reform_plan_is_a_riot/

[mercuryblues]

1. uhmmm. yeah

It is the debates that make the candidates look bad. Not the bile they spew from their mouths.

[yeoman6987]

7. I try to explain to the Righties

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]

9. "Does this dress make me look fat?"

no comment

[BeyondGeography]

2. The product sucks

and they can't/won't admit it.

[DetlefK]

3. Big problem:

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]

4. Their candidates look bad because they are bad

It's that simple.

[Bettie]

5. So, only Faux News with softball questions lobbed by their own supporters

And yet, they'll still look like a bunch of jackwads.

OK. Go for it, boys!

[FSogol]

6. Please proceed, Mr. Chairman...

[FBaggins]

8. Isn't this a Newsroom episode? nt