I can't just plagiarize repost someone's entire article without commenting, so here goes: Hey Brian, I still owe you for that T-Shirt. Oh, and by the way, that looks like you in the picture...is that you, just a coincidence, or is it Photoshop? Who is that man on the outside of the cage? I'm just sayin'...
...but enough about what I'm sayin', let's read what Brian Walker at Ohio Free Press has to say:
Maybe I get easily bored. Or maybe I have heard the same things over and over. Or maybe I haven’t had my morning coffee just yet. But the Ohio 18th district debates have been, well, a little dull. Let me explain.
I have attended, heard, or seen several of the debates. Now, granted, these debates are usually the first time that potential voters get a chance to see the candidates in person and hear their positions on a wide variety of topics. However, does this really give the voters who are going to electing their candidate to run against Zack Space a real feel for who it is they are pitting against an established incumbent? I don’t think so.
In the wrestling world there is a small segment of fighting called “cage fighting”. Cage fighting is a mixed martial arts fighting competition that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques and skills with no holds barred. In other words you better know what you are doing in the fighting ring or you will get your clock wiped clean by the competition.
I propose “cage fighting” for the Republican debates. I think that they need to see a little more jousting and fighting in the Republican debates for the Ohio 18th district. There are eight different candidates vying for the same “title”, or coronation, to take on Zack Space in the November elections. Granted, all these candidates are nice, well spoken, dress well, speak well and they are extremely cordial to each other on the stage during the debates. I am glad that they get along (most of them) and I even heard a couple of them car pool to get to the debates together. Now that’s really something you don’t see or hear about much.
However, everyone playing nicey-nice with each other during the debates is not giving voters a feel for who these candidates really are when the heat is on. Let them cage fight each other. Let’s see what happens when the fire is in the ring and the tough questions are posed by the candidates to the candidates. How are they going to respond? Will the presentation they’ve been giving people at the previous debates be burnt away revealing a different person, will they shrivel like a prune in the California sun when the heat is being applied to them, or will they be refined, tried and turned into a more valuable candidate?
I would hope the Republicans see a sifting of the candidate field. I would hope that, the voters would be allowed a different insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates they are looking to nominate for the Republican slot in the May election.
Some might be saying I am advocating mud slinging and character assassinations with the proposed “cage debating”. That would be about as far from the truth as it could be.
I present this to the thinking person. If the Republicans think that the Democratic incumbent and the democratic machine will be playing nicey-nice come the run up to November’s election, think again. Many of the democratic seats are in potential trouble due to the massive undercurrent of voter disgust with Washington. When you corner an animal and they are afraid for their lives, they will do anything and everything in the effort to preserve themselves. I have a feeling that, if the Republicans don’t properly vet out a suitable “cage fighter”, the cornered incumbent will tear them to shreds due to lack of experience.
And that’s just here in Ohio 18. Washington and the wolves that reside there are a whole different breed and much more numerous.
The Republicans need to make sure that the $174,000 year fight prize being offered can go to someone who is able to cage fight for 10 rounds and still go for the knock out.
That’s just an honest look at the situation.
I know that Rahm "Rahmbo" Emanuel is a good cage debater. Yeah, Brian, whoever goes to Washington, D.C. would need to be ready to Rumble With Rahm. The Left has already taken The Constitution to the cage, so if the Republicans become the Majority Party, it should be expected that The Left will invite them into the Capitol Hill Octagon as well. All over the USA, not just in Ohio-18, potential new Members of Congress need to be in hard training.
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