What I'd like to see would be a "debate" where instead of being stacked with "soft voters", the forum was stacked with partisans chosen by both sides, with each side getting to select the order of questions that will be asked of the other.
The best performance I saw Rush Limbaugh give on television was on the Phil Donahue show; he was asked liberal questions, and answered them. By contrast, liberals who are asked conservative questions often have trouble answering them.
Was Rush a guest on Phil's show? I would have loved to have seen that!