Axelrod: Who said we're going to go negative on Romney?

If you could identify the sources of that story, I would tell you, take them out of your rolodex, I don’t know what they are talking about. Of course we are prepared for a tough campaign with whomever the Republican nominee is going to be. But it is going to be a tough campaign about records, and about vision, and about how we rebuild this economy in a way that restores middle-class economic security. It’s not going to be about gratuitous personal attacks. So I would discount that…

And let’s focus on the real differences between us. Governor Romney was here in Des Moines today, at the state fair, and he said in response to questions about Social Security and Medicare, ‘corporations are people too,’ in explaining why he won’t close any of these corporate loopholes or tax upper-income Americans any more than they are being taxed today…. That’s a real issue, that’s a debate worth having. This other stuff is not.”