(The problem being that the commission insisted on equal time, and turn off mikes when someone, almost always a republican, interrupted the other candidate. In short, they just won't stand for fairness and letting democrats answer questions of voice their (more rational) views.)

In 1987, the Commission on Presidential Debates was established jointly by the Democratic and Republican parties to ensure that debates between the leading candidates for the President of the United States were a permanent part of the electoral process.

Now, the Republican National Committee has voted unanimously to leave the CPD, ending more than three decades of bipartisan civic cooperation.