[Salvavida]

Or a bracket of pistol duels.

[Diogenesis]

Too easy.
Each candidate, one at a time enters Thunderdome 2016
with one miserable, lying, paid-off, treasonous MSM anchor.
One lives. One dies. Only one leaves.

Next GOP candidate. Next MSM anchor.

[SeekAndFind]

Candidates who have declared so far ( please add if I missed anyone ):

Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio
Ben Carson
Carly Fiorina
Mike Huckabee
Rand Paul

Candidates planning to announce:

Scott Walker
Rick Perry
Jeb Bush
Lindsay Graham
Donald Trump
John Kasich
Rick Santorum
Bobby Jindal
Chris Christie
George Pataki

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

No. It is fundamentally unfair and wrong to exclude any. Have more than one debate. Create a lottery to decide who is in which debate. Decide the acceptable size and divide it up into the necessary number of debates.

Polling is about name recognition at this point. Give everyone a chance to be heard.

[pfflier]

Let them debate. Don’t go through one of those stupid media brokered Q&A sessions where the moderator gets the face time and the candidates give stock answers that they have practiced.

[Lisbon1940]

Three unseeded prelims is the way to go—then winnow it.

[Controlling Legal Authority]

Use an NHL style playoff! We can have a central, west, east division playoff. Use a poll to rank order about 5 or 6 for each division based on their home state. Let them debate two or 3 times, go to semi finals, finals. Then let the voters decide who wins the Cup.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Eliminate from consideration anyone who has already said they will not uphold the rule of law.

That leaves Cruz and Walker. Should be a good debate.