Romney campaign revels in Democratic attacks [Video]

Mitt Romney’s campaign says the White House is preoccupied with the Republican presidential hopeful, and it couldn’t be happier about it.

As the former Massachusetts governor attempts to shake off the latest GOP sensation on his path to the party’s nomination to face Obama, his campaign on Friday highlights how the White House and his Chicago-based campaign have singled him out as a likely foe.

A new Web video (see below) from Team Romney splices together clips of top White House and campaign aides invoking the candidate’s name. It includes strategist David Axelrod from a conference call the campaign held Wednesday laying into Romney’s alleged flip-flops.

And even President Obama himself is featured, responding to a Fox News correspondent who asked him during a news conference Thursday to respond to a Romney attack.

“I didn’t know that you were the spokesperson for Mitt Romney,” Obama is shown saying.

“Nervous?” the video asks.

Axelrod was asked this week if the more aggressive approach to Romney was a sign the re-election campaign had zeroed in on him as the likely nominee.

“I’m not going to make that decision for the Republican Party,” he said.

But Democrats have also joined the fight. A new video from the Democratic National Committee attacks Romney for calling Obama’s proposed extension of a payroll tax holiday a “band-aid” solution.

The video says that the $1,500 families would save each year is four months of groceries, seven months of gasoline or an entire year of electric bills.

“Clearly, when it comes to the middle class, Mitt Romney just doesn’t get it,” DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse argued.

And just before the president was to travel to Michigan, the DNC also highlighted Romney’s opposition to steps his administration took to rescue the auto industry.

Game on.