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Campaign debates, be they for the presidency of the U.S. or for school board, give voters a way to compare candidates side-by-side, similar to going to a used car lot as you\u2019re deciding whether to buy the Ford 150 pickup truck or the fuel-efficient Toyota Prism. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is trying to resurrect this now dismal poll numbers is now saying that participating in the recent GOP presidential debates was a \u201cmistake.\u201d There\u2019s no doubt that Perry is a skilled and experienced politician. On more than one occasion he\u2019s dealt with the rough and tumble world of hardball Texas politics and lived to tell about it. But Perry doesn\u2019t seem to share the same enthusiasm for national politics. “These debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It’s pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response,” the Texas governor told Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly. “So, you know, if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the [debates], when all they’re interested in is stirring up between the candidates instead of really talking about the issues that are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[285,327,369],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-paul","tag-mitt-romney","tag-paul-stanley","tag-rick-perry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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