Ann Romney also echoed Mitt Romney’s response to ads from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign criticizing the company Romney founded, Bain Capital, for investing in companies that outsourced jobs.

“I’m not disappointed,” she said. “I’m not surprised. I believe it was beneath the dignity of the office of the president to do something as egregious as that.

Romney putting his wife out front as a shield is a real sign that those criticisms are having a serious effect.