Good luck with that (don't forget to spraypaint your hands this time!).

His disastrous summer has included a botched foreign tour, a mishandled response to the Middle Eastern crisis and the leak last week of a secret video from a private fundraising party where he lambasted many Americans as being "victims" of government aid who paid no income tax. The series of gaffes has seen the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, fall behind President Obama in his long run for the White House.
Now the challenger is looking to the first presidential debate as a way of hauling his campaign back into contention.
The former governor of Massachusetts has already spent long hours preparing for the vital first duel with Obama, which happens on 3 October in Denver, the biggest city in the vital swing state of Colorado. 

The Guardian: Mitt Romney pins last hopes on TV debates, September 22, 2012