Debating the Debates
Our favorite make-up lady, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniels, is whining publicly again.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel excoriated the Commission on Presidential Debates in a letter on Tuesday, threatening to advise any future Republican nominee against participating in general election presidential debates unless significant changes are made to the commission.
Before I begin reading the news story, I knew for a damn fact that they wanted to make the debate impossible because Republicans don’t have policy or a platform. There’s only so many times you can give your enemies silly names and say patriot and beautiful without beginning to sound like bully with limited verbal skills.
But, here’s the deal. They think that the people who moderate the debates are all leftwing partisans. I’m pretty sure they will demand that Tucker Carlson host all the debates, and General John Kelly on the nights Tucker is getting his hair done.
They are also upset that during last the last election they shut off the microphone of the person who wasn’t speaking. That was so unfair to their candidate, who talks all the time.
And, here’s the big one.
At one point, the letter lauds Trump for “his background in television” because it led him to realize that the acrylic glass shields the commission was using to combat the coronavirus would cause the candidates to see their reflections once the stage was lit.
“Had it not been caught by the President of the United States, the CPD’s unforced error would have caused a surprising and awkward distraction for both candidates once the cameras started to roll,” she writes.
Okay, first of all, it wouldn’t have bothered her candidate at all because vampires can’t see their reflection. Second of all, her candidate is overcome with his own beautiful when he sees himself. Yeah, it’s awkward but definitely not a distraction.
So, I guess I’m back to what I suspected first. No policy or platform.