If anyone believes that I have a bridge to sell them.

Via Politico 44:

White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that the president and the West Wing Staff were not paying too much attention to Republican

“We’re just lay observers,” Carney said, in response to a question about a Mitt Romney aide’s quip that the general election would be like an “Etch A Sketch.”

Obama will “be ready to engage in a vigorous debate with a Republican opponent when the Republicans have picked their nominee,” Carney told reporters on Air Force One. “He’s not, certainly, and we’re not paying any great amount of attention to the day-by-day narrative in the race for the Republican nomination.”

“We follow your work and the work of your colleagues, but beyond that we’re focused on the job of trying to get this economy to continue to grow, to continue to create jobs, diversifying our energy portfolio so that we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, insulate American consumers from the vicissitudes of the global oil market. That’s our focus at the moment,” he said.