Maybe it's me, but I don't recall Cindy McCain making alot of boneheaded comments back in 2008

[LynneSin]

Cindy and Ann were both daughters of men who were very successful in life and had all the privileges and opportunities made available to them. However, I really don't recall Cindy McCain doing many speeches for John McCain; I think she kept more in the background. Probably was a smart thing too since Cindy, like Ann, didn't identify well with working class mothers.

I'm surprised someone from the Romney campaign hasn't asked that Ann stop making speeches since everytime she opens up her mouth she reminds the world that she was a woman given every privilege money could buy. Working class moms are not going to buy into that during the campaign season. Mitt already is already woefully behind with the women voters - Ann is just digging that hole even deeper everytime she opens her mouth.

[dkf]

1. She didn't talk much that I recall.

[LynneSin]

2. I mean McCain didn't stand a chance but at least Cindy wasn't the issue

That was Sarah who helped tanked McCain.

[Bake]

12. Her job(FN) was to look pretty and smile adoringly at Gramps.

She did her job reasonably well.



Bake

FN: Her job, as determined by the McCain campaign, was to look pretty, etc.

[Raven]

3. Actually, I don't remember Cindy saying anything. n/t

[Daalalou]

9. She did say one nasty thing

IIRC, she said something about, "Well, at least I've always been proud my country" (in reference to Michelle Obama's remark about being really proud of her country for the first time in her life).

For the most part, however, I felt a little sorry for Cindy McCain after hearing her story. She was pursued by McCain, a much older man, when she was only 24, and she fell in love with him without knowing he was married. Her father, a very rich ex-con and former gangster, pushed the match because he thought it would give their family what they lacked--respectability and acceptance into elite circles. (Apparently, Daddy had squashed her earlier engagement when she was in college to a classmate, a premed student from a poor family). She would learn about McCain's existing marriage after their upcoming nuptials were already a done deal.

She would also learn about how he neglected his first wife when she became disabled. I believe this is why Cindy hid from McCain her own back injury several years later, followed by her addiction to pain medications. Even now, the two live very separate lives, with her in AZ and him in DC.

In a lot of ways--her support of her children, her adoption of a Bangladeshi daughter, her medical missions work, her support for marriage equality--she seems like a decent person, despite the man she is married to.

[Dawson Leery]

4. She didn't.

Nor did Laura Bush.

Ann Romney is ugly all around. Even though I cannot stand most Republican Presidential candidates, this is the first time a find the spouse to be vile.

[Daalalou]

10. And that may be what draws support

Charlie Pierce wrote a column about Newt Gingrich's rise and fall in the Republican primaries, giving his theory about it. He said it was Gingrich's nastiness that appealed to Republican primary voters; he cited a woman interviewed after the South Caroline debate in which Gingrich had gotten snippy with moderator Juan Williams. "He put that boy in his place!" the woman chortled.

To Republicans, Pierce said, Gingrich was their Great White Hope--the one who would finally and decisively put that "boy" in the White House in his place.

However, in the next couple of debates Gingrich performed horribly. This, Pierce opined, indicated that he couldn't sustain the level of nastiness Republican voters desired, and so he lost their support. "If you're going to put yourself forth as the one who can crush Obama," Pierce wrote, "you'd sure as hell better beat Mitt Romney."

And while the 1%ers and Repub masters love Romney because he's one of them, Romney has had a hard time swaying ordinary Republican voters. It's not just because he's a Mormon, or because they view him as wishy-washy on social issues. It's because they doubt he has the cojones to engage in the nastiness that they desire.

But Ann Romney's comments indicate that she might be the nasty culture warrior of the family, a Palin 2.0. And that just might win Romney some votes.

[madokie]

5. Cindy was zoned out all the time

Have you ever seen her eyes cause they're a perfect example of what someone who is taking one of the benzodiazepines eyes look like

[Demeter]

6. As if Sarah Would Let Anyone Get a Word In

Even McCain was shut down.

[NatBurner]

7. cindy took shots at michelle a few times

she said something about how she's ALWAYS been proud of her country

and the slack-jawed yokels dutifully applauded

and her grumpy hubby lost very badly

she wasn't as vocal as queen ann, but she was no saint

[southernyankeebelle]

8. Mrs McCain came from money already and really didn't need McCain. McCain needed her.

I do remember Mrs McCain introducing her husband a couple of times. Mostly she stayed in the back ground. Sarah Palin sucked all the air out of he room.

[kenny blankenship]

11. The right to free speech is distributed universally and equally

Intelligence is not.