Over at Taki's blog, Jersey's own Andrew Napolitano has a piece arguing that Gary Johnson should be included in the presidential debates.

That would certainly liven things up.

As I noted in my Thursday column, there are major areas of policy that don't even arise in these debates.

For example, a recent Brookings Poll showed just 22 percent of Americans support arming the Syrian rebels.

Yet the Romney-Ryan ticket is advocating doing just that.

And the Obama-Biden ticket isn't putting up much of an argument against it.

Imagine if Johnson were up there arguing that we should just stop meddling in the Mideast, period. The other two would be tripping over their tongues trying to make a case for why we should stay.

And then there's the economy. Both parties plan debt to the horizon.

Here's what Napolitano has to say on that topic:

Exactly. And he wouldn't have done well at all if Johnson had been raising the question Jim Lehrer wouldn't:

Just how long do you plan to continue deficit spending? The Ryan plan calls for more than 20 years of unbalanced budgets. Let Romney defend that.

He doesn't want to. That's why the Republicans are fighting so hard to keep Johnson off the ticket in key states. Fortunately they're failing. Here's a recent release from the Johnson campaign:

That certainly points to the value of Napolitano's conclusion:

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