The debates have gotten to the point where it is easy to imagine them as a sitcom. The characters are obvious: the well-meaning but inept Father Jeb; crazy Uncle Donald; sharp-tongued Aunt Carly; sleepy Grandpa Ben; et. al. Unfortunately, one of these characters is going to have a reasonable shot at running our country next year.
My normal practice has been to lay out the principal issues for the debate, but the NYT did a really good job with that this morning, so I will abstain, with one exception: Marco and his credit card issue. Most of the attacks on Rubio’s finances have been fairly lame, and he has turned them to his advantage, but this one could be different, simply because there is a fairly obvious analogy to Hillary and her use of a private server for public business. Will any of the candidates see the analogy and use it? We’ll see.