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"The 1996 Senate campaign between John Kerry and William Weld was the rarest of events in latter-day American politics: a civil, closely contested, intelligent, and wildly entertaining brawl."
A debate between two committed progressives like Kerry and Kucinich would be super intense (and intensely interesting!), but it would also be respectful. Personally, the thought of these two progressive gladiators going at it sounds like a dream - the kind of stuff you'd see between the founding fathers.
To make a slightly ahistorical point - I can't see Jefferson calling Hamilton "Bush-lite."
This campaign could have been a great opportunity to flesh out serious progressive policy, and discuss things like race, class and progressive taxation in a really informative, interesting way. It hasn't been that at all.
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