Is Ann Romney Cracking? Tells Critics to "Stop It. This is Hard."

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Ann Romney has been derided as being out of touch and inaccessible, but her recent comments seem to indicate that she is very in touch with the current temperature of the election--in Iowa today she reacted to the national pile-on of pundits, even conservatives saying her husband has to get his campaign together.

Here's the report from Radio Iowa: [1]


During her remarks to the crowd this afternoon, Mrs. Romney said it is “really hard for me as a wife” to watch the campaign unfold. Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan recently wrote that it’s “time for an intervention [2]” in the Romney campaign. William Kristol, a conservative who is the editor of The Weekly Standard magazine, used the words “arrogant and stupid [3]” to describe Romney’s comments about the “47 percent” of Americans who won’t vote for him.

During an interview early this evening with Radio Iowa, Mrs. Romney directly addressed her fellow Republicans who’ve criticized her husband.
“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring,” she said. “This is hard and, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”


Earlier this week, Romney tried to defend her husband for his now-infamous "47% remarks" that were secretly recorded, but she ended up making things worse by saying [4]"This is a guy that obviously doesn’t need to do this for a job."

And earlier this year, we documented five of Ann Romney's worst quotes [5].
Here's the point: the candidate's spouse might have played a key role in the campaign as a good-looking lady who could have humanized her husband and given him that common touch. But she ended up as out-of-touch, alien and strange as her husband and has solidified Romney's role in the public eye rather than softened it.

By Sarah Seltzer



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Here we go again. My god it gets so bloody stupid. Halfmit has to 'get his campaign together.' '...to watch the campaign unfold....' and ...'it's an important thing we are doing right now...'

WHAT?
He's supposed to be a bloody politician not an adman from Mad Ave. Politician! That means he should have policies. Policies that the people whose votes he wants can understand and debate. There is no point in advertising the best mousetrap if it doesn't kill mice.
Is he...are they...so bloody stupid?
Like chocolate teapots. Sweet on the outside, wet on the inside, completely empty and completely unsuited for purpose.
Anyone who votes for romney's crock of crap must be either mentally challenged or so filled with illogical hate for the present incumbent that they should be put away as a danger to society.
 
She is starting to crack. How dare we ask questions and have expectations of them?? Queen Ann...very angry and really not up to the task.
 
Part of the problem is the campaign doesn’t have a deep bench of sympathetic spokespeople. So they lean heavily on Ann Romney, hoping that her obvious femaleness makes an adequate substitute for empathy.


Perhaps they’re running her too ragged, as she seemed tired and off her game in an interview with a Denver news station that the campaign first posted and then swiftly yanked, perhaps realizing that "Mitt doesn’t disdain the poor" doesn’t sound that comforting to the nonmillionaire masses.


In the interview, Romney defends her husband by claiming the quotes sound better 'in context'.


She adds: "He is talking about what’s happening right now in America, and how more and more people are falling into poverty. More, in particular, women, are falling into poverty."


All very true. Women, especially mothers, are more likely to be members of the working poor, and therefore make too little money to pay federal income tax.


Which means, by her husband’s accounting, women are more likely to be "dependent on government" and to constantly be making overbearing demands for housing and food.


It also means that working mothers with children at home are, in vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s parlance, "the takers," who contribute nothing but simply siphon from the "makers," such as wealthy Republican donors who live off their investments.



http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/54941832-82/romney-ann-women-doesn.html.csp
 
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