Just to make these debates more interesting to a non-political or poorly informed public and to insure better, more entertaining TV for all of us, I suggest:
Completely onvert this lengthy and laborious series of GOP candidate debates into an exciting reality show, wherein one presidential hopeful is eliminated after every single show.
Start out with nine or ten Republican candidates and have a panel of, say, three judges to criticize the performances each week.
Let a moderator ask the candidates questions and occasionally take a question or two from the studio audience.
To be fair, allow any candidate a choice to do a song or a dance instead of giving an answer, should he or she want to avoid a particular question or show off a valuable talent or display a special skill.
Provide a panel of judges made up of Bill O'Reilly, Anderson Cooper and, heck I don't know, maybe Paula Abdul would work.
Make that Nicole Scherzinger, instead of Paula, because the former P*ssycat Doll is decades younger, better looking and has longer legs.
Sorry, Paula.
After the debate, have the judges criticize the candidates' performances and score them from 1 to 10 before opening up the phone lines for a few hours so viewers can vote.
There could even be some temporary immunity deal thingy, awarded by the judges, up for grabs also to add drama and provide some measure of safety from sneaky voters who vote multiple times trying to skew the results.
Then combine all the call in votes with the judges' scores in some secret, mysterious way (just as they do on Dancing with The Stars) in order to eliminate one GOP presidential candidate after every single debate.
I'd watch.
Completely onvert this lengthy and laborious series of GOP candidate debates into an exciting reality show, wherein one presidential hopeful is eliminated after every single show.
Start out with nine or ten Republican candidates and have a panel of, say, three judges to criticize the performances each week.
Let a moderator ask the candidates questions and occasionally take a question or two from the studio audience.
To be fair, allow any candidate a choice to do a song or a dance instead of giving an answer, should he or she want to avoid a particular question or show off a valuable talent or display a special skill.
Provide a panel of judges made up of Bill O'Reilly, Anderson Cooper and, heck I don't know, maybe Paula Abdul would work.
Make that Nicole Scherzinger, instead of Paula, because the former P*ssycat Doll is decades younger, better looking and has longer legs.
Sorry, Paula.
After the debate, have the judges criticize the candidates' performances and score them from 1 to 10 before opening up the phone lines for a few hours so viewers can vote.
There could even be some temporary immunity deal thingy, awarded by the judges, up for grabs also to add drama and provide some measure of safety from sneaky voters who vote multiple times trying to skew the results.
Then combine all the call in votes with the judges' scores in some secret, mysterious way (just as they do on Dancing with The Stars) in order to eliminate one GOP presidential candidate after every single debate.
I'd watch.
