Needless Infighting

"The Republicans have a terrible habit of eating their own. Of forgetting they are the adults in the room. The result? Needless infighting..."

I got kind of a kick out of watching the debate last night. In particular, some of the discussions on Planned Parenthood, the Constitution, ObamaCare, our tax system, illegal immigration, the border, ISIS, Iran and so on. And why would I get a kick out it? I may be a bit slow, but this is how I look at things.

By now, the Republican Party should have a platform going into the 2016 elections. In that platform, all pertinent issues are spelled out. When debates are held, questions are asked on each element of the platform. Every candidate will then give his or her vision on how to accomplish the goal of that element. For example, lets use abortion and defunding Planned Parenthood. If the party platform states that we are against abortion and the continued funding of Planned Parenthood, every candidate would explain how he or she would do it. For a candidate to say he or she is pro-choice, thereby going against the party platform, that is whole different problem.

So sticking with abortion for just a minute, the question the moderator should NOT ask is "Are you pro-choice?" The question asked should assume the candidate is pro-choice and wants to defund Planned Parenthood. Therefore the question would be something like, "What steps are you going to take while working with Congress, to defund Planned Parenthood?"

Now I like Jake Tapper. He is not a rookie. That being said, he did a crappy job last night. He made our team at times look like school kids. Some candidates did rise above the fray - others did not. In fact one even reverted to grade school name calling.

I love to listen to men and women of vision. And not just vision, but how to put that vision into play. What I don't want to hear is "gotcha" questions, squabbling, or needless infighting. Seriously - out of the 3 or 4 hours of both debates last night, I saw very little visioning. And I don't give a rat's butt if someone smoked a joint 40 years ago. Or what happened at Lucent Technologies or HP twenty years ago. Or if one of the candidate's casinos went belly up in Florida. I don't bleeping care!

So before debate number 3, can we please show the other side as well as the undecided voters we have our poop in a group and not just a bunch of infighters? Vision people, vision! That will win the day!