She's Awfully Partial to the Periwinkle Blue

I’ve got a better way to get results.
The candidates will stand within a ring,
Be given each a weapon, for to bring
A bruise to each, consenting as adults
To give a greater whipping, so the show
Attracts the kind of brazen, shameless love
That gives the viewers what they’re thinking of:
Opponents, bruised and buried ere they know
That logic that has hit ‘em.  Beat it out
Of one another, gentlemen, to please
The watching world, and any who’d appease
Desire for a circus, and the clout
Of the United States will still appear
As freedon’s great oasis.  Never fear;
We never tire of shame and drama here.