Finally, A solution to the 18 person circular firing squad.
Kate Wilhelm
June 9 at 5:00pm ·
It is distressing to hear that the debate stage cannot hold all the Republicans who want to be president. The system isn’t fair, that’s obvious, and to date the various suggestions about how to fix the problem fail to satisfy. It is with that in mind that I offer my own suggestion.
I propose a series of debates featuring one-on-one contestants. Examples:
Carson v Fiorina (You don’t need two of the fringiest of the fringe.)
Santorum v Huckabee (“God loves me.” v “He loves me more!”) Only room for one at the top.
Christie v Trump (“Sit down and shut up.” v “You’re fired.”) Rude and crude, we don’t need two.
Kasich v Pataki (Which ones are they again?)
Graham v Paul (Send in the troops and kill them all! v Get us out of there.) Have smelling salts nearby.
Cruz v Rubio (One Hispanic is enough.)
Perry v Walker (My state’s bigger than yours. v Mine is under control, so help me, Koch.)
Bush v Jindahl (I’m my own man, aren’t I, George? v That’s not a whine, it’s a cry from the heart.)
Each debate should take fifteen minutes, giving each candidate seven and a half minutes to say whatever they have to say and fund raise. That’s more time than anyone on a crowded stage of a hundred candidates would have. As more candidates declare their intentions to run, the same method could be used to let them shine and fund raise before a national audience for seven and a half minutes. Fair’s fair.
The stage should be a lazy susan. As soon as the fifteen minutes are up, the stage should automatically revolve to reveal the next two already in position and primed for battle.
In this way in one hour there will be four winners and four in the dustbin of history. Two hours means the field, as of today, will be narrowed to eight.
Eight would still be too many for a real debate. Another elimination round is needed. Going for blood with this one. Winner v winner. They can’t be paired at this time since we don’t know the winners of the first rounds. When we do have names up in lights, with one more hour we will be down to four, and that’s a manageable number.
The losers might consider banding together to form a separate and new party, perhaps call it the GOD party: Grumpy Old Diehards.
Meanwhile, I donated a modest sum to Bernie Sanders. I just want him to keep talking and talking. Maybe people will start listening.
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Then split off the "Party of God" wing.
Then the "Wall Street" wing.
Oh wait,...that would only leave the anti-government, gun luvin', racist white male 'Mericans.
Their pick?
