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Title: Operation Get Jeb Elected: GOP moves to lock down presidential primary debates
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Against Crony Capitalism
URL Source: http://www.againstcronycapitalism.o ... -presidential-primary-debates/
Published: May 7, 2014
Author: Nick Sorrentino
Post Date: 2014-05-07 21:52:06 by X-15
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The party doesn’t want the “circus” it had in 2012 with the debates. Too much Ron Paul, too little inevitable coronation of the establishment candidate. You see it’s because the people had too many choices that the GOP lost in 2012. The message wasn’t controlled enough. It wasn’t at all that the election was in many ways a referendum on Obamacare and that Obamacare was built on Romneycare, and so people just threw up their hands and didn’t come to the polls because they saw Romney as a big government GOP retread. Nope. It was because there was TOO MUCH debate. Better to narrow the already narrow discussion and participants. That’s what the people want. But neither major party really cares what the people want. The people only get in the way. (From The Washington Examiner) The Republican Party is set this week to take another step in its bid to take control of the 2016 presidential primary debate calendar and prevent what GOP officials have referred to as another “circus” that damages the nominee’s general election prospects. Republicans want to head off a repeat of the 2012 primary, which featured about 20 debates spread over nearly a year that provided hours of free television exposure to second-tier candidates who were underfunded and had minimal support. The process helped to artificially extend the GOP primary campaign and diminished Mitt Romney‘s ability to defeat President Obama later that fall. 
Don’t want something like this happening again. What with the youthful excitement, expanding the party, and actually standing for small government and all.
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