“Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.” —Romney Communications Director Eric Fehrnstrom, explaining how everybody will forget what Mitt is saying today. [ThinkProgress]

“That’s a big lava lamp, congratulations.” —Mitt Romney to an employee, while visiting the Chicago Google office today. [Politico]

Mitt Romney, Monday:

“I had catfish for the second time. It was delicious, just like the first time.”

Mitt Romney, the first time:

“[I’m not] a catfish man, or not a fish man so much.”

Pandering’s harder than you think.

Mitt Romney Flip Flops On Catfish [HuffPo]

“I’ve got a lot of good friends, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, and the New York Jets — both owners are friends of mine.” [ThinkProgress]

Ann Romney, Monday:

“I don’t even consider myself wealthy…”

Sound the alarm! Rally the Cadillacs!

Oh, wait. There’s more:

“…which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow,” she said, “and how I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches so for me having done through a difficult period in my life both with MS and with breast cancer it has done something to my heart and it has softened my heart and made me realize there are many people suffering in this country and they are suffering from things that aren’t financial — and some people are suffering from things that are financial, as well — but those that are suffering, for me, I just have a larger capacity for love and for understanding.”

Y’know, we’re gonna let that one pass. It’s not like Mitt won’t serve up a better quote on a silver platter soon enough.

Mitt Romney, today:

“I believe in the Second Amendment, I’ll protect the Second Amendment, I have guns myself. Not going to tell you where they are. Don’t have them on myself either, alright.”

Mitt Romney, 2007:

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“Romney recalled he was ‘probably 4 or something like that’ the day of the Golden Jubilee, when three-quarters of a million people gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American automobile… And it took place June 1, 1946 — fully nine months before Romney was born.” [Toronto Star]