First GOP 2012 Debate Cancelled

It's hard to have a debate when no one has declared their candidacy:

A tree falling in a forest with no one there does make a sound but it's a little hard to hold a presidential debate for Republicans when none of them have officially declared their intention to run.

This morning, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation announced that it had rescheduled a debate which was previouly supposed to be held for Republican presidential candidates in May to September 14. The forum is also being sponsored by the newspaper Politico and NBC.

Scuttlebutt has it that no one has thrown his/her hat into the ring as everyone is waiting to see what former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is going to do. Things are a bit murkier for her given her standing contract with Fox News as a paid staff commentator. That lucrative revenue stream for her would cease if she files to run for president.

All that Sarah Palin stuff aside, if I were a GOP candidate I would refuse to do a debate run by NBC and Politico. Both are full of liberal political hacks and I can guarantee you the questioning will be designed to embarrass GOP candidates and provide sound bites for Obama's campaign.

The GOP does not have to accept debates sponsored by mainstream media outlets.  They can set up their own forums with questions being asked by people who don't have such obvious leftward bias.