ROGER SIMON: Make the Reagan Library Debate an Audition for Commander-in-Chief:

What matters is what the candidates would do about the global crisis, how they would address it.  To find that out, the panelists (including Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and Hugh) should take a different approach on September 16.  Treat the event more like an audition than a debate.  That is unlikely to happen, of course.  But debates with eleven people are silly in the first place.  They’re not real debates.  But auditions with larger numbers can occur.  You can drill down with each person to the extent necessary to see if they are the best one for the part, in this case commander-in-chief.  That is how auditions work.

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