Ann Romney: Hilary Rosen Controversy Was 'My Early Birthday Present'

[Galraedia]

Source: Huffington Post

During a closed-door fundraiser in Florida, Ann Romney described Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen's recent criticism of her choosing to be a stay-at-home mother as an "early birthday present," according to a report by NBC News.

While speaking at the fundraiser for her husband Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, Ann Romney told the audience that Rosen's slam was a boon to her and her husband's campaign.

"It was my early birthday present for someone to be critical of me as a mother, and that was really a defining moment, and I loved it," Romney said.

Romney also said that the media's nonstop coverage of Rosen's criticism, along with the ensuing "war on moms," was a "gift" in the early stages of her husband's general election push.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/ann-romney-hilary-rosen_n_1427419.html?ref=politics

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Wow. Maybe Anne is getting bored buying luxury items, and is seeking something

more exciting?

[BeyondGeography]

2. Obviously, inappropriate remarks run in the family

So much for poor, disrespected Mrs. Rmoney.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Well you just blew any sympathy you got from this, Ann...

Way to go!

[Tom Ripley]

4. Clueless and tone deaf

Roll on, Ann

[JI7]

5. that's how much they suck , they look for anything to try to exploit to make themselves

out to be victims.

except they are so totally clueless and out of touch that they can't see that people see through their phony outrage just like every other phony thing about them.

[Kalidurga]

6. So, opening up a discussion of the privileges rich women receive,

the privilege of choices, to stay home or not, the privilege of having a nanny or not, the privilege of having a house keeper or not, the privilege of having a chef or not and the privilege of knowing you never have to worry about bills, this is a gift. I don't think the word gift means what Ann thinks it means.

[EC]

41. I agree.

I think this will blow up in their faces. It's brought to light the differences between the haves and have nots. So I think it will amount to more resentment at their indifference to the masses.

And on edit: That skin tight dress she wore to the NRA isn't helping. She wore that dress on purpose knowing there would be mostly old white smarmy men in that audience...

[DallasNE]

7. Ann Romney Is As Out Of Touch As Her Husband

First of all Hilary Rosen was not critical of her as a mother. She simply said that her background shielded her from the rigors that ordinary women face with juggling work with being a mom and running the family budget. So, not only is Ann Romney as out of touch as her husband, she has some of the same problems with telling the truth as her husband.

[dkf]

8. Critical of her as a mother? Seriously?

Mitt is rubbing his smarminess on her.

[Pirate Smile]

12. That's the irritating part. Mitt was being criticized for using Ann as an ECONOMIC ADVISER. It was

not about how she was as a Mother.

[mulsh]

31. I think they are equally smarmy.

n/t

[DRoseDARs]

9. But what does he give your nannies, cooks, gardners and horse dressagiers for their birthdays? nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

43. What does Ann Romney make for dinner?

Reservations.

[Brigid]

51. Here's the answer to that question:

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[Galraedia]

10. One of the characteristics of a sociopath is that they are

Manipulative and conning. They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.

[DeschutesRiver]

11. Maybe its just me, but I find Ann and Mitt to be a bit dull witted.

Not bright. Dim bulbs.

I believe their wealth came merely from connections, not from some stunning brilliance on the part of Mitt as he ran Bain Capital. I just don't see him as either a smart thinker or a sharp businessman.

I had no opinion about Ann Romney - until she started speaking up recently. And I find her just as dim witted as he is. What an assinine comment for her to make, even behind closed doors. War on moms, my ass - she seems to not realize that no one finds her attempts to identify with the struggles of the other 99% plausible in any way, because of the mass of money that stands between how she lives and how the rest of us live.

When you have that kind of wealth, you don't really have a meaningful or life/death kind of budget issue to struggle with - ever. You can make choices based on nothing more than desire, not need. This certainly isn't a war on moms, but Ann might manage to make it a war on the wealthy if she keeps sticking her foot further into her mouth on any issue where her extreme wealth clouds her judgment. Which would be pretty much every issue that a human can encounter.

[Skittles]

14. I think Mitt is a complete dipshit

[Jamaal510]

23. I doubt that a dipshit would lie and flip-flop as much as Romney does.

[DeschutesRiver]

38. It takes no intelligence to either lie or flip flop - in fact, his flip flopping also suggests

a man who has so little retention abilities that he can't remember what he has said previously, at least not enough to even make a plausible change of position as needed.

He just blurts out a new position, because he hasn't the capacity to remember his old ones and make new arguments consistent with the old ones. Plenty of people change position, on the fly, but the ones who are not low IQ can at least try to make an argument as to why they are changing position. Not just appear to forget they ever held another conflicting opinion about a subject.

As to the lies, well, it just doesn't take a rocket scientist level of smarts to lie. And from what I've seen, old Mitt doesn't even lie well.

He simply has shown none of the talents or intelligence or better, the absolute ruthless cunning it may take in the free market of which he speaks to actually be doing anything that might have amassed his vast fortune. I'm guessing he was a dull dipshit hired because of his daddy the .gov and auto whiz, along with all that Cranbrook private school connection stuff.

That is how he survived from birth on - his daddy gave him things. Like stock to live on during college, a home to live in during further education, and on and on. He hasn't needed to be actually smart to achieve anything, with his connections he even was allowed to go to schools that should have been beyond his abilities (like George Bush). Worthless wastes of breath and minds, taking up space that someone else with real potential should have been given. In a more perfect world, anyway.

[Kali]

45. used to be I would feel secure in the knowledge that dip shits wouldn't have a shot at presidency

but then we had 8 years of dumbya and now they make me nervous.

[Skittles]

50. KALI NAILS IT

in my mind, Dubya made the presidential bar so low a slug can crawl under it

[Dawson Leery]

13. Tone deaf/out of touch.

[deacon]

15. = false outrage for political gain. n/t

[MADem]

16. Yeah, and your whining about "suffering" because you had to sell stock to "survive" was Obama's! nt

[Tx4obama]

17. And below is an awesome PRESENT for the DEMOCRATS

January 4, 2012
Mitt Romeny:

... while I was governor, 85% of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state, had no work requirement. And I wanted to increase the work requirement. I said, for instance, that even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, well that’s heartless. And I said no, no, I’m willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It will cost the state more, providing that day care. But I want the individuals to have the dignity of work. ...

[PSPS]

18. "Controversy?" Not outside the partisan MSM controversy factory.

[cstanleytech]

19. And our Early xmas present was finding out Mitt doesnt really think its work Ann. So ho ho ho to you

[aquart]

20. Mitt found his perfect match in Ann.

[cilla4progress]

21. Nice...

using working moms...stay at home moms...for political gain.

Classy.

[6000eliot]

22. How does one remark by a pundit equal a war on moms?

Wasn't it also immediately repudiated by everyone connected to the Obama campaign?

[chelsea0011]

24. This non story has gone on for days now

Morning Joe is talking it up nonstop this AM. But I still haven't heard anyone raise the issue of the "help". The Romney's live with the "help". Why won't the pundits even admit that reality.

[JoePhilly]

28. And didn't her last "child" move out over ten years ago?

Doubt that will come up on morning Joe

[Cass]

25. She still won't acknowledge that she had resources few people have.

Its stunning that the Romney campaign thinks this is a good tack to take. It plays well to the privileged class but to ordinary people these comments show that she has no clue and isn't looking for one either.

[Vinca]

26. Wonder what the non-early birthday present might be.

A new Caddy? Another house? A diamond studded paper towel holder? An early birthday present for an average mom is a bucket of chicken instead of cooking dinner after a long day at the second job.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

27. Can't figure out who I dislike more: her or her husband. Here's yet another example of the

privileged, snobbish, wealthy elite who think they are entitled to everything they won't. They think they can just buy people off like they buy a pair of Manolos!!

[randome]

29. There is something seriously wrong with the Romneys.

[Marrah_G]

30. I really can't stand this woman

Not sure I would even offer her a glass of water if she was on fire. Fucking parasite.

[liberal N proud]

32. The media coverage of a non issue was a gift for sure

Once again the M$M and the GOP pundits have managed to take a non issue and occupy the nations psyche with it.

And once again we all fell for the bullshit.

A simple statement about an ultra rich woman who past childbirth probably has not done much of anything in life vs the fact that the GOP openly is working to control every womb in America and what is the media talking about. The comments made about the guided one.

Arrgh

[Thrill]

33. The media has done their part to help Mittens

Most just aren't stupid enough to admit it

[BigDemVoter]

34. Pu-leaze!

Nobody gives a shit other than a bunch of yapping "talking heads." This is stale news & wasn't captivating even when it happened.

[marshall]

35. No sympathy for Ms Rosen?

She has had to apologize for something she did not say, and she has been disowned and tossed under the bus by those she defended.

[otohara]

36. Is This Their Strategy

wait for another Dem person to say something that is true, but can be twisted by the media to benefit them for a news cycle.

[Mz Pip]

37. I don't get this.

Rosen doesn't even work for Obama. She works for CNN. Maybe the Democrats need to pounce on everything Erik Erickson says or some other RW hack and grab back the headlines. It shouldn't be hard. Rush says stupid stuff everyday. Hannity says stupid stuff everyday. The list is long.

Why is this dominating the news cycles when and actual GOP congressman accused 80 of the House Democrats of being Communists. Where is the outrage over that?

[Thrill]

39. Because they have their orders to help Mittens

[LynneSin]

40. Once again Ann shows just how far out of touch she is from society

Because the whole Hillary Rosen comment is starting to backfire in the faces of Mitt and Ann. They've pulled up plenty of clips where Mitt talks about how moms should be forced to work even if they are the only means of taking care of the children. And of course we have discussed to death the fact that the only work Ann has ever done at home is order the nannies, butlers, servants, gardners and other household working class to do their job (at a very low wage we found out).

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. Get over yourself Ann.

[Fearless]

44. She just keeps showing how out of touch Romney is with the common woman/man.

[avebury]

46. Speaking of Ann Romney, have you seen this?

http://www.dogtime.com/birthday-girl-ann-romney-parties-with-dog-barbequer.html

Birthday girl Ann Romeny parties with dog barbequer

[treestar]

47. So she considers it a good thing that she was somehow victimized

So what she is really saying is that it is a wonderful thing to have the other side mis-step, even if she takes a hit (at least, as she says it).

[Worried senior]

48. So the snarkiness

is starting to come from the poor little stepford wife.

I really think conservative women are almost worse than conservative men.

Have seen too many of them on up with Chris and MPH on the weekends. Don't really care to see much more of them, they make me ashamed.

[nolabear]

49. And Ann Romney is my early birthday present.

Because she's gonna cost that smug SOB all the votes she thinks she's winning him.