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can’t this just take a couple of
months? This is America! — and
it’s high time we killed the whole
thing with fire.
Well, the precious footfalls of
baby steps are at least pattering in the distance. CNN’s Peter
Hamby reports that “handpicked
members of the Republican National Committee,” who have met
in “a series of closed-door meetings since August,” have proposed
a “sweeping plan” to lessen the
obvious awfulness of the GOP primary process, in the hopes that
maybe the 2016 election won’t be
so excruciating for their nominee.
And that is the primary driver
of these reforms. According to
Hamby, lingering memories of the
GOP primary debates, in which
Mitt Romney had to “stake out a
number of conservative positions
that came back to haunt him in
the general election,” loom large
in the party’s motivation.
Go read the whole thing, but
here are the back-of-the-cerealbox details.
ORDER WILL BE RESTORED TO THE
PRIMARY CALENDAR:
One thing that we all worry about
ahead of any presidential primary
process is whether this will be
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the election cycle in which interloping states — hoping to grab
some of the cachet of traditionally early primary states like Iowa
and New Hampshire, in a rabid
game of brinksmanship — finally
push things so far back on the
calendar that the 2016 nominating process gets rolling around
Halloween 2015.
This time around, the RNC
plans to dole out heavy [