you wanna battle, get a deal first

This would be interesting to watch. Not because I’d expect “Clinton, Hillary Rodham” to be added to the index in future copies of American Rhetorical Discourse, and not because it would change the race (unless PBS sandwiched the debate between new episodes of “Charlie Rose Presents: Mudfighting with America’s Next Top Model” — but oh, my elitism betrays me), but because it would be interesting to see how the campaigns stayed on message in an L/D format. Or, failing that, how drastically the format would have to be changed to accommodate a politics that isn’t currently debated from a rational-critical perspective at all, even among elite actors.