It's been 18 days since Rick Perry's coronation to becoming the Republican nominee for President took a serious detour.

That's when he turned in a horrific debate performance in Orlando at the Fox/Google debate, followed up two days later with a stunning loss in the Florida straw poll.

Now all eyes, or at least a lot of them, will be on Perry on Tuesday night as the nominees get together in a debate to be broadcast by Bloomberg television and the Washington Post from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

He got prepped on Monday by distributing this slickly produced attack ad on his bitter rival, Mitt Romney: