No mojo, no ethics.

I would like to see the Republicans take a stance that while each of the candidates wants to be President, it is more important to win the White House. I would like all campaign funds to go to one account that would pay for position ads, debates, speeches and all other campaign activities equally. I would like to see them pledge to not attack each other and stick to issues, their own ideas and recommended course of action. All candidates would stay in the race as long as no one had enough votes for nomination. If candidates feel that they are not getting through they can drop out but their designated funds are not spent. Once the party has a candidate all the money donated will go to their race and it will be clear that he did not buy the primaries and he would not be bleeding from thousands of cuts. The opposition having been fair game will already have some wounds going into the presidential race and they will be facing a unified party without internal discontent due to money and slander.

What happened in 2010 will happen again. Any proposed cuts will be jettisoned under a grand bargain that does nothing except protect the vested interests.