In an email to supporters, Barack Obama‘s reelection campaign is pushing back against a huge ad buy by Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity with a video response from Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter that adopts the informal presidential-campaign-next-door ethos that has become its hallmark. In the video, Cutter blasts the distortions and lies in the pro-Romney SuperPAC’s ad, and promises to “call their BS when we see it,” which is probably the first time I’ve heard those initials used in an official campaign communication.

At a campaign stop on Monday, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney tried to cozy up to the youth vote by expressing, as an afterthought, his support for President Obama‘s (without naming him) proposal to extend low-interest rates for student loans. Unfortunately for Romney, progressive American Bridge PAC has video cameras, and knows how to use them. The group released a web ad today featuring clips that are at odds with the former Massachusetts Governor’s pro-student pose.

During a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod called the Republican’s Super Tuesday “Super Glue Day,” saying that Mitt Romney is “still stuck” in a drawn out primary process that’s like a “death march.”

He also took several shots at Romney’s weak response to the Rush Limbaugh “slut” controversy, at one point calling it a “test of leadership,” and asking “”If you don’t have the strength to stand up to the most strident voices in your party, how are you going to stand up to (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad?”

Although current Republican frontrunner Rick Santorum continues to use his mouth to weaken his general election prospects, he still remains a rock-hard target to attack from the right. As I’ve noted previously, the grounds on which former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney can safely attack Santorum are thinner than a Bayer Aspirin. The Romney campaign underscored that fact this morning by releasing an oppo memo that slams Santorum for…being in Congress?

The influence of independent expenditure groups like PACs and SuperPACs has become a major factor in this year’s presidential election. Consequently, the news that President Obama has decided to encourage donations to the Priorities USA Action SuperPAC is dominating political news today, with handwringing on the left and the right about the President’s prior vocal opposition to outside groups. Philosophically, he’s just taking a page from Ronald Reagan‘s book.

This morning, Obama For America Campaign Manager Jim Messina announced, via a web video, that the Obama Victory Fund raised $68 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. That staggering total eclipses the expected fundraising takes of all of the President’s Republican rivals combined, and nearly triples frontrunner Mitt Romney‘s fourth quarter haul.

At a campaign event in New Hampshire Sunday, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made another ill-considered attempt to relate to the common man, telling the crowd that “I know what it’s like to worry whether you’re going to get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered if I was going to get a pink slip.”

The remark has drawn fire from many, but an oppo memo from Priorities USA Action‘s Bill Burton really brings the absurdity of Mitt’s alleged anxiety into stark relief.

Mitt Romney‘s ”Believe in America” ad has generated a lot of coverage for its dishonest use of a quote from President Obama, and a great discussion on the absurd lengths the media take to avoid calling a lie a “lie,” but one obvious theme has been missed. The out-of-context tactic that the Romney campaign unapologetically used in the ad is yet another in a series of reactions to Bill Burton‘s sustained offensive on Romney.

After many, many months of attacking GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as a flip-flopping political weather vane with  ”no core,” former Obama spokesman Bill Burton‘s Priorities USA Action PAC has taken a new tack, supported by a six-figure social media push, that paints the former Massachusetts Governor as a man with a plan, a very bad plan, for a place called Mitt Romney’s America.

Early on in his appearance on Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Obama campaign chief strategist David Axelrod quickly steered the conversation around to his campaign’s relentless, laserlike focus on former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. Asked to assess new GOP frontrunner Herman Cain, Axelrod told host Joe Scarborough that Cain is just the latest indication of Romney’s weakness as a candidate, and coyly dropped in a reference to Romney’s infamous dog-on-the-roof road trip. It’s going to be a ruff campaign.

In a memo to reporters, former Obama Spokesman and current Senior Strategist for Priorities USA Action Bill Burton is calling out the current Republican presidential field for veering sharply from support for federal education programs, in an attempt to appeal to a Tea Party that’s out of step with mainstream public opinion. Citing polls that show overwhelming public support for education funding, Burton blamed the Tea Party for “push(ing) the candidates far beyond the bounds of mainstream America.”

Former Obama Spokesman Bill Burton is calling out GOP hopeful Mitt Romney over his response to a voter at a New Hampshire town hall meeting. Ask for his reaction to the tense exchange, Burton tells Mediaite that Romney got “testy” because he “has no core principles,” and points out the former governor’s hypocrisy in bragging about balancing the state’s budget, while opposing the revenue increases that allowed him to do it.

It is on. A new online campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney has been released, funded by a recently group called Priorities USA Action. Who is that you ask? Well, its founders former Deputy Press Secretary for the White House Bill Burton, and Sean Sweeney, who is former senior adviser to former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; and CNN contributor Paul Begala, who was a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton. So, safe to say its a a pro-Obama group.