Now once we get past the fact that neither is a particularly good debater but both give good stump speeches and both do very well shaking hands although Perry does much better with average Americans, we now move to comparing records during the same time frame.
Newt and Mitt have no current record to run on. They can never compare their record to Obama's because Obama can always blame Bush, Congress and Wall Street and Newt and MItt will have no way to respond.
I believe on substance Obama will beat both Mitt and Newt even though Obama is full of crap, the media will not portray him that way.
We need a starkly divided stat sheet and Perry has this. We better not try to out slick or out "personality" Obama or we lose. We have to run against his record. The excuse maker in chief will always say 3 things, Bush's economy, Wall Street, Congress. The only one who can demolish that is Perry and he will do it with deeds not just words.
Esse quam videre (to be rather than to seem)!