Newt Gingrich’s dream of holding a Lincoln-Douglas style debate has finally come true. He will face off with Herman Cain the old-fashioned way, with lengthy responses and detailed proposals. The audience will even be served good old American apple pie.
But there’s one catch that was recently revealed: the audience must pay to get in and the ticket prices, for the bleacher seats, start at $200. For “prime seating,” attendees will pay $500. And the “best seating in the house” carries a price tag of $1,000.
Wonder what Honest Abe would have thought about all this.
The Nov. 5 event, staged by a Texas Tea Party group in Houston, is essentially a Tea Party fundraiser.
The format will be a modified version of the iconic debates of 1858 for an Illinois Senate seat between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. There was no stage, no moderator, just 3 ½ hours of oratory.
My question is, how is Cain, who has very little knowledge of foreign policy, going to keep up with Gingrich, who views himself as an intellectual and historian, for three hours?
If they run out of things to talk about, will the audience get their money back?
