Paul Begala actually said...

"If I worked for Mitt Romney I would instruct him to bring it up. Bring it up to knock it down."

"He should stand up in that debate and raise it himself and disavow attacks from five years ago on the president that seem to me to be driven perhaps by race rather than economics."

"You want to run for president looking like a president."

"That is so offensive. And it does shine a light on the sort of arrogant elitism that clearly animates Governor Romney and his views toward fellow Americans."