There’s nothing binding about today’s RNC self-examination report, but it’s still a remarkable document and comes perhaps the closest of anything since the election to the big, fundamental reckoning that the GOP needs to go through not just for its own good but for the good of the country. Benjy Sarlin picks out the top 6 highlights from the report.
Hillary Clinton announces her support for gay marriage.
So drastically shorter primary phase, much earlier nominating convention, many fewer debates. Aren’t all of Reince Priebus’s structural reforms basically aimed at dramatically reducing the time period in which the actual Republican party base is on display for the public at large?
We’ll have more on this soon, but the big news of the morning is the RNC’s formal embrace of comprehensive immigration reform as a pillar of redefining the Republican Party post-2012.
In cas you missed it, here’s my quick take from this weekend on why that CPAC racial outreach event spun so out of control.
Drunken federal prison guard shoots finger to remove his wedding ring during fight with wife.
Needless to say, one of the happier outcomes you can imagine when you mix a domestic dispute, alcohol and a handgun. The ring remained on, notwithstanding substantial damage to Alfredo Malespini’s finger. Police say they’d been to the Malespini home “a couple times” for domestic disputes. Police Lt. Steve Caskey said the suspect “had been drinking quite heavily throughout the day and he and his wife had been arguing throughout the day about an affair he had had several months ago.”
Winnie Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, expressed “surprise and shock” that she might be charged with murder in the death of two young ANC activists 24 years ago.