Politicians and a steel cage match

Well Canada will soon be thrown into the drudgery of another election. Our TV's will soon be plastered with politicians selling their special brand of snake oil. The press will be digging into all the dirty corners of the candidates closets. Exposing episodes of seedy bathroom encounters and frilly lingerie. Prime time television runs the risk of being interrupted for special bulletins on a nightly basis of candidates snipping ribbons at the tractor factory.

There has to be a better alternative to this nation wide state of confusion that will soon strike our nation.



I'd like to see politicians tap into the current Mixed Martial Arts craze and have elimination tournaments to find the next member of Parliament. Throw two candidates into a steel cage and have them battle it out for supremacy. It would be a round robin format - if you win your match you would move onto the next round. This would continue for each specific area until only one candidate remained.

The best part of the whole program is that we the voting public, get to see politicians beat the tar out of each other every night until election day. Now that makes for some good TV.

It probably would not take long for this steel cage format to be the standard for all levels of government. People may pay attention to their local municipal politicians if they knew there is the potential of a steel cage match every few years.

To use this format in the current US situation I'm not sure how I would predict the cage match between McCain and Obama. Obama is younger and likely has better stamina and quicker reflexes, but McCain is a wily veteran and is sure to have learned a few tricks during his stint as a POW so I'd put nothing past him.

You know Vegas would love the format - can you imagine the wagering. Finally people would have a reason to pay attention to the election. More focus would be on candidates conditioning and diet, as opposed to foreign policy and taxation programs.


Do you have a better option? If so let me know.

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