Last month, the Republican National Committee took pity on a nation still healing from a presidential election cycle that featured over 20 separate primary debates and said, “Lo, let us not do this anymore.” And so they announced a plan that would hold the number of primary debates to a reasonable nine to 12, all gently spaced out over the primary season and equitably distributed among important primary states. Now, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal — himself a prospective GOP candidate — is vowing to blow this up. Yahoo News’ Jon Ward has the story:
Jindal also made clear he has no plans – if he runs for the nomination – to abide by the RNC’s attempt to keep candidates from participating in debates that are not sanctioned by the party committee.
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Jindal is, by no means, the first person to react with alarm over the RNC’s long and ongoing push to make the stakes favorable for well-heeled, well-financed candidates — just chat up a Ron Paul delegate from the 2012 convention. But there is probably a better way to attack this than insisting on a return to the loco debate cycle of 2012. Surely there is a happy medium between “just anointing the candidate who raises the most money” and “have 25 debates, each more pointless than the last.”
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