Some days, it doesn’t pay to get out of bed and have that first cup of Morning Joe. David Axerlrod’s day got off to a rough start on the MSNBC show, which pleased the GOP enough to promote his appearance. In one segment, Joe Scarborough challenges Axelrod to explain why twice as many voters think Barack Obama has conducted a negative campaign than Mitt Romney (with even more calling it a tie). Axelrod’s answer? Mitt Romney has been so relentlessly negative that people blame it on Obama. No, seriously:It didn’t get any easier for Axelrod when Scarborough asked Axelrod about leaks from the Obama administration. Axelrod tries to offer “distractions,” as Scarborough called them when upbraiding Axelrod for trying to avoid the question. Axelrod insists that Obama never “authorized” the leak of classified information, which is hardly a ringing denial about leaks from the White House:
