We must savor the November 9th Republican debate, because after that, we might not have Rick Perry to kick around anymore:

Rick Perry, whose performance in a series of Republican presidential debates has corresponded with a steep decline in his polling, plans to limit participation in future face-offs ahead of early state nominating contests.
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“We’re about 60 days away from votes being cast,” Ray Sullivan, Perry’s communications director, said on CNN. “The candidates need to spend time in Iowa doing those town halls and spending a lot more time with the voters, who oftentimes have the best questions and press the candidates the hardest.”

Wow. He's so bad at debating that his campaign is basically giving up on debates. You know what's even dumber? Perry and his staff are trying to avoid debates in an effort to win the nomination with the full knowledge that even if Perry did win, he'd still have to debate Barack Obama, who is no slouch in the debating department. That's fucking insane. It's like skipping kindergarten to take the SATs.