Dear Reince Priebus, you and the Republican Party have it in your power to make this primary season the best freaking reality TV show ever.
Start with the first debate.
Throw out all the old formats. You have sixteen relatively legitimate (lol) candidates; now if you only have the will you can design a bracket battle that will enthrall America.
First, rank them by latest polls, Trump at the top, and the people whose name I don't want to bother loking up at the bottom, like...Topkapi? Poughkeepie? That guy, and Jindal, at the bottom. Then bracket them in four groups of four each, 1 and 16, 5 and 12 in the first bracket, etc. Make the first debate a quad slugfest, with four debaters a time on stage for thirty minutes total, no screwing around, cut their damn microphones if they go over their thirty seconds. Let that British asshole from American idol moderate. "Illegal immigration: Rand Paul, you have 30 seconds!" or "Don't Ask, Don' Tell, Ben Carson, you have 30 seconds!" Then, and here's the genius, LET THE VIEWERS DECIDE who advances. The viewers vote in real-time, kind of like Dancing With the Stars.
One person advances. One from each quad. So the sixteen are winnowed down to four at the end of two hours. Then those four square off a week later.
Ratings would go through the roof. I would guess the Final Four would be something like Trump, Bush, Walker, and whoever. It would be a freaking blast getting to the Final Four, all America would be talking about you.
Basically, we'd be talking about what assholes you are, but we're already doing that.
Think about it, Reince.
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