[shortstop]

I would prefer less Candy Crowley and more Mark Steyn or Megan Kelly.

[Servant of the Cross]

Um, Bob. Yes, the GOP IS the stupid party. But when they do something right, like OWNING their primaries rather than letting the DNC-run media owning them, don't call them stupid for that! Who's head is where?

[nathanbedford]

I belong to the stupid party.

If so, you are certainly in the right place.

[Lazamataz]

Bob is one HUNDRED percent BUCK-ASS WRONG here.

[Norm Lenhart]

Practice what you preach Bob. And take your own ass kissing head out.

[ilgipper]

This couldn’t be more wrong. This is probably the best move I’ve ever seen the RNC make. We play our entire primary and the general election by our opponents rules and in sports analogies, essentially give them the ball at our 20 yard line. We use only left-wing debate moderators and let their side set the rules. When it is a primary debate, our guys are playing defensively because of the questions. In the general, it is like our candidate is on trial. I love this move, and hope to see more of it.

[LibLieSlayer]

Well old bob here is a charter member of the gop/e... stupidity division.

LLS

[sickoflibs]

Was CNN and NBC any worse than the rest of them? Like ABC?

I recall Chris Wallace asking a row of candidates ‘yes’ or ‘no’ if as POTUS they would accept 10$ in spending cuts for 1$ in tax increases and they all said no, which told the audience that none of them would ever cut spending, or cared about the deficit. Just a bunch of GWBs.

[riri]

This essay is idiotic.

What does Bob propose? More of the same?

But, yes, the GOP is the stupid party. Shunning these debates happens to be one of the very rare correct steps they happen to make.

[Da Coyote]

This guy is a closet liberal.

And - as such - let’s shove him back in the closet and throw away the key.

We conservatives either start playing hardball like the lib-O-crats, or just give up.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The last Republican primaries were what was dumb. A circular suicide/assassination spectacle in several rounds. The Republican candidates were happy to kill each other by the time the election took place. The whole format and setting and moderators and everything about these debates was in the interests of the Democratic Party and not the Republican Party. The Republican Party needs a whole new set of leaders.

[Da Coyote]

This guy is a closet liberal.

And - as such - let’s shove him back in the closet and throw away the key.

We conservatives either start playing hardball like the lib-O-crats, or just give up.

[central_va]

Actually Bob, not only is Prince Rebus correct about this, the next step would be to make the all primaries closed except to Republicans. NO MORE OPEN PRIMARIES.

[TomGuy]

Obama has picked up on that concept -- the party of stupid.

This morning the newsies are running a clip of Obama blaming the Republicans for all the problems and delays with -- Obamacare.

So what if not one Republican voted for that monstrosity.

So what if Pelosi had to get it passed before she could even read it to find out what was in it.

So what if Obama has been delaying parts of Obamacare unilaterally, and possibly illegally, without Congressional approval.

Response from the GOP leadership: {crickets chirping}

By the end of the day the LIV will 'know' that the Republicans are to blame for all the Obamacare ills -- and higher premiums, etc.

Not to worry, Rove and the other Elites and advisors still get their paychecks.

Not to worry, Congress gets its exemption from Obamacare.

Not to worry, "God's in his heaven; all's right with the world," from Pippa's Song by Robert Browning.

[xzins]

To me, it is incomprehensible that a party so committed to the Constitution should get its panties in such a bunch because someone else exercises constitutional liberties.

This is where Lonsberry is wrong. The Republican Party is a private organization and not a governmental agency.

It can protest whatever the heck it feels like, and if it protests fawning media siding with socialist politicians, then it's their business.

Priebus might be wrong lots of times, but his slamming the media for their absolute bias toward Hillary is not one of those times.

And after so many "moderators" have boldly undercut his candidates in THE MIDDLE OF debates (Candy Crawley the most recent), then he is right to disinvite them.

And someone who wants to watch a debate will watch it on the channel showing it.

[rockrr]

Yea, because playing by the left’s rules in their ballpark on their schedule has worked out so well...

[IbJensen]

I am no longer a Republican.

I am now a proud member of the Monarchist Party and intend to run as King.

ALL Democrats will either be humanely executed or sentenced to life at hard labor making pebbles out of large rocks. Homosexuals will be exiled to one of the remote Hawaiian Islands (I think there’s one with rampant leprosy).

The Federal Reserve will be emptied out and burned. Those found in the building will be sent off to Alcatraz which will be, of necessity, reopened with no changes being made in the facilities.

Homosexuality, abortion, pornography, ‘gentlemens’ Clubs be closed. The DOE, along with many other useless socialist government follies, will be eliminated and Christian Churches and Jewish Synagogues will be charged with educating the youth of America.

All Muslim nests of ‘worship’ will be closed and their adherents will be assigned numbers that denote the place they’ll hold in the deportation lines.

The southern border will be closed permanently and mined, but after we’ve driven the unwashed horde back over that border.

Only embassies in the few friendly nations will be open. All the rest boarded up or sold.

There will be no foreign aid.

There will be no pensions for Congressmen. The Supreme Court will be dissolved until I can select replacements: no lesbians and no homosexuals. Congressmen will be selected by popular vote in each state while Senators will be selected by their respective state legislatures.

The IRS will be permanently closed and all laws pertaining to the confiscation of funds by that agency will be halted until we find a better way.

Jesse Jackson, Sharpton and all race hustlers and pimps will be imprisoned along with the NAALCP.

The military will lose all political, brown-nosing generals. Exemplary lower rated officers will be moved up into positions of authority. Women will be moved back into administrative positions and all homosexual or lesbians will be summarily discharged.

All tasks performed by the central government, with the exception of defense will be transferred to the states.

All federal lands and parks will be returned to the states in which that facility is located.

There are a lot more things I’ll be doing, but this is, after all, only my first day on the job.

Oh. One more thing. The current occupant of the disgraced White Hut along with his immediate family and all his evil lieutenants will be sent off to that remote Hawaiian Island. The one’s with the biggest hands will eat best because the only dish served will be poi.

[Logical me]

Sorry Bob, but patronizing the communists NBC and CNN was the most foolish thing the Republican Party did. Lets kick ass with honest debate with someone like Megan Kelly.

[Red Badger]

Campaign for freedom and against the EBT.

You can't beat Santa Claus...................

[ConradofMontferrat]

WRONGO, BOBBO!

Letting the same people beat you over the head with bats, the exact same way, ALL THE TIME, now THAT’S idiotic.

Fact is, who the hell needs CNNNBC any damn way, any damn how, any damn more?

Hold your debates on FOX, and only FOX, you think people WON’T tune in?

Truth is there are lots of other venues than the obsolete network news.

[DakotaGator]

Mr. Lonsberry is wrong.

It is absolutely proper for the RNC to threaten partisan media expulsion from its primary debates. More, the RNC should take back the party by making all it primaries closed primaries. And it should absolutely insist on true moderators and neutral venues for any debates.

This one small correct step by the RNC in insisting that it will not tolerate the partisan media’s glorification of Hitlery should be applauded, not deplored.