It's just sad that the media has already decided that Romney is the nominee, and Perry is the "other guy" that we pretend you can pick but really you can't. And nobody else is given the time of day. Seeing Fox News play this game is just disgusting.
To me it's sad that we have only three choices for President. The media basically chose Perry and Romney as the frontrunners by constantly declaring that "Perry and Romney are the frontrunners." It's kind of silly to watch the debates happen and then try to reconcile that with how mass media shapes opinion afterward. From what I've watched of the Republican debates Ron Paul has crushed the rest of them repeatedly, and no one will take him seriously because the major news networks will paint him as a loon and the public will more or less follow what they're told.
Obama is problematic too - the right hates him and the left is dissatisfied as well. For almost every American citizen, he would not be the first choice for president. But it's taken for granted that he'll be the nominee, and he'll face Romney or Perry in the election and most on the left will vote Obama because "hell no the other choice."