Romney attempts to turn the dial up to 11. The dial comes unhinged:

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Romney (plaintive voice): “This is an election in which we should be talking about the path ahead, but you don’t hear any answers coming from the president’s reelection campaign. That’s because he’s intellectually exhausted …”

(crowd snickers and laughs)

Romney: “… out of ideas and out of energy. And so his campaign has resorted to diversions and distractions. To demagoguing and defaming others. The president is taking things to a new low. His campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the presidency. Another outrageous charge just came a few hours ago in Virginia and the White House sinks a little bit lower. This is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. President Obama knows better, promised better and America deserves better.

Over the last four years this president has pushed Republicans and Democrats about as far apart as they can go, and now he and his allies are pushing as even further apart by dividing us into groups. He demonizes some, he panders to others. His campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then try to cobble together 51% of the pieces. If an American president wins that way we would all lose, but he won’t win that way.

So Mister President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.”