Paul Begala actually said...

"It's the economy, stupid. You're running against a president with 8 percent unemployment and 1.3 percent GDP growth. I can't imagine why you would talk about anything else, especially race, which this..."

"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."