Mitt Romney actually said...

"I want this to be a campaign about the direction for America. And about who can get America working again."

"It's beneath his dignity."

"And by the way, this is all an effort on the part of the president's campaign to divert attention from the fact that the president has been a failure when it comes to reigniting America's economy."

"I think what the president is doing is terribly destructive to the political process and be -- beneath what the people of America expected from someone who said he was going to rise above partisan pol..."