“Once again, we’ve found people in Washington have not lived up to the level of respect and dignity that we would expect for somebody that gets elected to a position of high influence. Very disappointing. He’s no longer associated with my campaign, as you can imagine… I’m sorry to see that he has fallen short.”

Romney said that to CNBC’s Kudlow & Company discussing the recent guilty plea by Senator Craig to lewd conduct with a man in a Minnesota airport bathroom. Craig was Romney’s Idaho state chairman but yesterday video of the Senator giving a message of support was taken down from the Romney campaign Web site. Craig also officially resigned from his duties for the Romney team.

“I think it reminds us of Mark Foley and Bill Clinton. I think it reminds us of the fact that people who are elected to public office continue to disappoint, and they somehow think that if they vote the right way on issues of significance or they can speak a good game, that we’ll just forgive and forget. And the truth of the matter is, the most important thing we expect from elected–an elected official is a level of dignity and character that we can point to for our kids and our grandkids, and say, `Hey, someday I hope you grow up and you’re someone like that person.’ And we’ve seen disappointment in the White House, we’ve seen it in the Senate, we’ve seen it in Congress. And frankly, it’s disgusting.”

This isn’t the first set of problems for the Romney campaign or for the presidential campaigns in general. Earlier in the year Romney’s ’security guru’ and driver Jay Garrity stepped down for allegedly impersonating an officer. Before that Rudy Giuliani’s South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel was indicted on cocaine charges.