The Debate Show

Fox News will host the first Presidential Primary Debate in August and because of the large number of candidates Fox has decided to limit the number of participants to ten.  This seems a rather crude solution to the problem with great potentials.

If Fox were to give up the O'Reilly replay for two weeks the real potentials of this opportunity could be realized.  At the moment there appear to be 19 probable candidates by August, maybe 20. They are to be ranked by popularity in a Fox poll and delineated by percentage ranking.

If there are 19 we could have one three way match and all the rest two headers to have nine debates, putting each on one night for a one hour debate.  We could have a panel of political writers, hopefully an even mix of liberals and conservatives to score the debates, picking winners.

This would give us nine shows, and winners who would then debate other winners in four contests, with the first one a triad to eliminate the odd man.  This would give us four more debates, with two winners and then the final with one winner!  It could be 16 nights of TV that would be very good for the Republican Party and demonstrate far more "democracy" than the immaculation of Hillary!  Just call it "The Debate Show."

Adrian Vance