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“The problem is not debates,” Elaine Kamarck, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School, said. “It was that, by and large, they showed America in those debates a Republican Party that was fundamentally out of sync with America. … The debates are one more piece of evidence that they’re looking for easy fixes to what is a fundamental problem.” ( http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/rnc-reince-priebus-gop-primary-d
ebates-95601_Page2.html)

They want their own moderators. There is now "speculation that conservative radio talking heads like Mark Levin, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh could moderate ." Per Limbaugh: “Put together your own debates with your own moderators, whoever you want, and focus on real Republican issues in these debates" ( http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/rnc-reince-priebus-gop-primary-d
ebates-95601.html#ixzz2cFSdCbZH)

Primary debates SHOULD be handled by the party whose primary it is, that's valid. To a point. The problem is, what having fewer debates and right-wing moderators as extreme as Limbaugh or Hannity would do is allow them to better "control the image of their candidates and spin damage control when one says things like they forgot what programs they want to cut or they demean the working class by throwing around $10,000 bets. Or let the cat out of the bag that some, if not all the candidates, were just a tad bit crazy and a long way from Presidential." ( http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/17/republicans-resolve-to-fix-pri
mary-debates-by-controlling-moderators-and-content/#ixzz2cFSPdcob)

The problem as I see it is that the GOP needs to find more viable candidates, not flash-in-the-pan ultra-conservatives who end up making fools of themselves on the national stage. While I think they're right to try and get moderators who aren't biased, the result of a Limbaugh- or Hannity-moderated debate might not be something they'll gain from in the end, and fewer debates won't guarantee that bad candidates don't end up being seen for bad candidates.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a pool of trained, unbiased people whose job it was to study to be debate moderators? Hey, I can dream!