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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMrs. Romney: 'I love it that women are upset'
Laaadies! Mitt Romney has a message for you. Let's let Ann Romney distill it down to its most condescending core for a moment, shall we?I love it that women are upset, too, that women are talking about the economy, I love that, Mrs. Romney said at a pancake breakfast here. Women are talking about jobs; women are talking about deficit spending. Thank you, women.
Wow. I mean, just wow. Women are really amazing, you know? Because who would have thought that they would bother to worry their little minds with the economy? It's not like women live and work and (try to) support their families in this lousy economy and have reason to be concerned about what's going on with it, so it must be something special to thank "women" for if they're thinking about the economy at all. Amirite?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/19/1075700/-Mitt-and-Ann-Romney-are-super-excited-that-women-care-about-the-economy
tularetom
(23,664 posts)would find and marry each other.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)Sarah must be included.
pathansen
(1,039 posts)* Romney's support of Blunt Amendment - immoral to use birth control
* Romney wanting to get rid of Planned Parenthood - More cancer & other health problems
* Rush Limbaugh's anti woman remarks - Instead of disagreeing, Romneys only response was "That's not the language I would have used."
* Romney's support of the Personhood Amendment- an embryo is a person with rights just like everyone else.
boston bean
(36,224 posts)He should be proud!
siligut
(12,272 posts)They just can't get over feeling so superior to everyone.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)(had to look it up, I'm not familiar with the Bible)
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Raven
(13,904 posts)When she blew an opportunity to talk serioulsy about MS and instead talked about a horse in every port, I knew, this is an incredibly shallow woman. So we have Mr. & Mrs. Vacant.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I'm not entirely sure I even understand it...
SamG
(535 posts)birth control, because only MEN in Congress can decide what's best for women on THAT issue!
<sarcasm>
EOTE
(13,409 posts)Of course, my husband is just going to make that worse, I just really like to see women upset. Not the women in my life, mind you, but all the other ones. The hoi polloi, or "Great Unwashed" if you will.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Sweep on.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I never studied Shakespeare. Now, it's on my mile long list of things to do. If I didn't spend so much time online........
(I once did interpret Two Men of Verona, so of course I had to read it, and work out a visually pleasing translation into ASL. I thought --and general consensus agreed-- I did a pretty good job. )
freshwest
(53,661 posts)For me, Shakespeare was not a study, I had a natural affinity for the language as it was used then. The historical and tragic plays would have been work. The plays that were called comedies just flowed, so it was never work, but pleasure. My husband and I used to seek out live productions as he enjoyed it also. It was always a plan of mine to visit the outdoor productions in Ashford, OR, but I only saw them in other cities.
Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)Has Ann discussed this with the other wives?
Javaman
(62,534 posts)Turbineguy
(37,375 posts)part of a Cunning Plan!
Riiiiiiiigggghhhhttt.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)"They've always been; now they're rebelling."
Psst Annie, some of us wimins have worked for a living and never owned more than one beater at a time. Condescension isn't attractive.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)MidwestTransplant
(8,015 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)market for a long time and she is just now realizing that we are concerned about economic factors? Even in the 50s women understood the need for a good economy.
barbtries
(28,815 posts)women are talking about abortion rights, birth control, the apparent intent of the republicans to force them back into the dark ages. she didn't mention that apparently.
arthritisR_US
(7,300 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)This is the dingbat who said during an interview that "I don't even consider myself wealthy."
Texasgal
(17,048 posts)I am so glad that I'm up to your standards talking about the economy and the deficit spending! *whew* And all this time I thought we just giggled over coffee and exchanged banana bread recipes!
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Do they have one in Stepford?
Quantess
(27,630 posts)She can go fuck off.
JHB
(37,163 posts)..."I don't understand! Everyone likes being patted on the head! I liked it. Mitt likes it. Even Seamus liked it. In fact, he loved it! What's wrong with these people?"
Phentex
(16,334 posts)just because she was a woman, and "oh, isn't it great to see a woman running for VP?"
They didn't care what she said or what she stood for only that she was female. It was mind-boggling.
After a few months of the campaign, their tunes changed drastically!
edbermac
(15,947 posts)And it ain't going to be her.
TlalocW
(15,392 posts)I think she's deliberately fooling herself as to what they're UPSET about, and it ain't gonna help her hubby.
TlalocW
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Her Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake" moment.
denem
(11,045 posts)and perhaps more. I remember Ann announced there would be no more debates. She was sick of them. Bravo.
Shampoobra
(423 posts)"Women: America Loves 'Em!"
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)after Willard muscled Jane "None Too" Swift out of the governor's race in Mass., she got Swift's running mate, Patrick Guerriero, dumped from the ticket because he is gay (he went on to be the head of Log Cabin Republicans), even though Dog on Car himself was cool with it. She apparently feared that Mittenswould catch Teh Ghey and be damaged goods in terms of a presidential run.
tledford
(917 posts)the assault on their health and bodies and the general impetus to attempt to put them back into the 16th century.
Retrograde
(10,164 posts)The word derives from the Greek term for management of a household, something that historically has been women's domain throughout the world - those nagging little details about feeding, clothing and housing a family, however you want to define family. And while women may not be predominant on trading floors or in executive offices they still have to worry about where the resources for the basics of life are coming from, so yeah, Ann, they're thinking about the economy, usually in more personal terms than you do, such as "How will I feed the children if my or my spouse's job moves overseas, or our pay is frozen to give the CEO a bigger bonus?".
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)(from the same article)
calimary
(81,527 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)Of COURSE none of the women she socializes with talk about these things; they didn't have to.
Initech
(100,108 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Newt wants to put the debates up on pay per view.
Santorum thinks Puerto Rico needs to adopt English as the official language as a precondition for Statehood.
Mitt Etch-a-sketch Romney is clueless as to why woman are angry.
And this is just one week and it's only Thursday morning. And it's been this way for months, gaffs on top of gaffs on top of gaffs.