Mitt Romney should revive Newt Gingrich’s idea of challenging President Obama to a series of 12 debates. It doesn’t need to be 12 exactly. It could be 9, 7, or 21. The idea is to have a substantive discussion on the future of the country.

The topic of one of the debates could be the respective careers of these two politicians before they ran for public office — Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital and rescuing the Olympics vs Barack Obama’s career as “community organizer” and Saul Alinsky disciple.

Obama, of course, won’t accept the challenge. But it would put him on the defensive.

Romney could then say continuously that he’s challenged Obama to a series of nine debates. Obama has declined, no doubt because he wants to hide behind his negative ads, diversionary side issues like Bain Capital, and distortions rather than talking about what Americans really want to hear about — which is getting our economy growing again.

Offer to Obama the prospect of having an entire debate just on Bain Capital.

Let’s discuss just that for 90 minutes.

A debate focused on Bain Capital could be a tremendous learning opportunity for voters on how capitalism works, how jobs are created, and on how wealth is generated.

Romney could contrast Bain’s record on creating jobs vs Barack Obama’s record on creative jobs.

Bain has created hundreds of thousands of jobs in America. Barack Obama has created exactly zero net new jobs for America during his 3 1/2 years in office.

Obama has added $6 TRILLION to the national debt, but still managed to create zero net new jobs. How is that even possible?

I imagine if I ran up $6 TRILLION on my credit card, I would have created quite a few new jobs. How could you not?

But somehow, Obama has managed to do it — borrow $6 TRILLION . . . and created zero net new jobs. Actually, it’s even worse than that.  Obama has lost about 1,000,000 net jobs since coming into office.

That’s an incredible feat.

By the way, when Romney was running Bain Capital, he was able to get an average 113% annual return on Bain’s investments.

So let’s have this debate: Bain’s and Romney’s approach to creating jobs and growing the economy vs Obama’s approach.

Then ask: Would you prefer to have the U.S. economy run more like how Bain would run it? Or more like how Obama, ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton would run it?

We could then have a debate on what records should be released.

Romney can say: “I’ll release all my tax returns when Obama releases his college and law school transcripts along with his medical records.” [Plus a true copy of Obama's birth certificate instead of the Photoshopped version the White House released]

After Obama declines Romney’s 12-debate challenge, Romney should go wherever Obama goes to give a counter speech to whatever Obama is saying.  The media will have to cover both.  So we can have these debates that way.

Romney should debate Obama’s empty chair every day, saying Obama was invited, but still isn’t showing.

Newt had a good idea here.

He could also borrow the red phone idea from Glenn Beck.

Romney should take the red phone with him wherever he goes and challenge Obama to debate by phone if Obama can’t get there in person.  Romney would then show he’s prepared to debate Obama anytime, anywhere — with advance notice ,or with no advance notice.

Whenever Obama wants to call, we can have a debate.

This would generate a lot of media interest and add some much-needed sparkle to the Romney campaign.

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