If you believe the media stories about it, we’re in for a real “slugfest” tonight at the CNN/Teabagger Republican Debate: Five things to watch for in CNN/Tea Party Republican debate.

Round two of the Perry-Romney slugfest? It started in Wednesday’s debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the new guy in the race and the front-runner in the national polls, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the previous front-runner, sparred over jobs creation and Social Security.

Perry stood by earlier comments that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and that it was a “monstrous lie” to tell young workers that it would be there when they retire. Romney responded, saying that “under no circumstances would I ever say by any measure it’s a failure. It is working for millions of Americans, and I’ll keep it working for millions of Americans.”

Since then, both candidates have swung at each other through e-mail releases and on social media. In a radio interview, Romney went a step further than he did onstage, saying, “If we nominate someone who the Democrats can correctly characterize as being opposed to Social Security, we would be obliterated as a party.”

Oh, and Ron Paul.