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Mitt Romney's campaign manager blasted President Obama's campaign effort as "like one of those gyrating, intermittent lawn sprinklers, spewing out attacks in seemingly random directions" in a memo released to reporters Friday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the president's reelection team and underscoring the acceleration of the presidential campaign since Romney effectively clinched the nomination earlier this week.

Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades issued a memo Friday morning mocking the president's record and trying to frame criticism from Obama's campaign team as undisciplined.

"Without the ability to run on a record of achievement, the incumbent is reduced to a campaign based on scattershot attacks on Governor Romney in particular and Republicans in general," Rhoades said. "The Obama campaign is like one of those gyrating, intermittent lawn sprinklers, spewing out attacks in seemingly random directions, hoping to get somebody wet somewhere but ! hoping even more to talk about anything but the unemployment rate, federal debt, gas prices, or rising health insurance premiums."

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