Republicans admit they tried to undermine -- and the GOP hopeful's visit to Solyndra, where the Romney campaign said there might be a White House conspiracy to block the event.

"You say, a president that's in love with his own voice," Schieffer noted. "That leads me to what you all were doing last week, that is organizing a rally to try to drown out David Axelrod when he goes up to Boston at the same that out on the west coast Gov. Romney was loading up reporters and taking them on a secret mission to the Solyndra plant because he said he couldn't reveal where they were going, but he was fearful that Democrats would try to break that up."

"Isn't that kind of silly and petty when you look at it?" the CBS host wondered.

"I think Solyndra is a serious thing," Priebus argued. "I think highlighting Solyndra, highlighting this president's foray into venture capitalism, using taxpayer money to send to Solyndra, of which the Solyndra executives were donors to Barack Obama. I mean, this is political cronyism in its worse form."

"Now as far as David Axelrod and going to Boston, I mean, that's the height of a political stunt," he continued. "I mean, what's the purpose of the Chicago clan going to Boston to hold some sort of political stunt? And for these tough guys from Chicago to cry about it, I just find it laughable."

"They've failed so badly that they want us to believe that we're not living on Earth and that the president isn't the president and all of these things that are going wrong have nothing to do with Barack Obama."