Ann Romney advising her husband on women’s concerns. Absolutely no way can we let that happen, according to Democratic advisor Hilary Rosen. After all, as a stay-at=home mom, Ann Romney has no clue!! She’s never had a job in her life!! Adding fuel to the firestorm, the President of the National Organization of Women today said that neither Ann Romney nor her husband have the “life experience” needed to address the woes of the country.
DOESN’T have the LIFE EXPERIENCE!!! If that is the criteria, by what standard did Barack Obama get elected? After all, he had no life experiences to fall back on.
While the White House tries to claim the Republicans are waging a “war on women”, Hilary Rosen’s attack on mothers has given the Romney team their response to the White House attacks.
Even more troubling to the White House is the idea that a surrogate has attacked the wife of his presumptive opponent, and in doing so, has opened the door to attacks on Michelle Obama, particularly with attacks on the First Lady’s lavish travel expenditures. In 2008, Hilary Rosen was an ardent defender of Mrs. Obama and the idea that the candidate’s families were “off limits”.
Looking forward to the next chpater!!
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April 13, 2012 at 5:56 pm
mpbulletin
While the Rosen’s “attack” (not plural) was inappropriate (even though Ann more than likely had maids and nannies helping her), it hardly provides anything close to what would be needed by Romney or the GOP to overcome the impacts of the MASS of anti-woman individual choice legislation and attacks (yes, plural) on the women of the US.
This was one comment by an ex-recording industry lobbyist turned Democratic pundit (not connected to the White House in any way) that is just that… one comment.
Not much ammo here… sorry.
April 14, 2012 at 11:28 am
JAMES
Someone who is “not connected to the White House in any way” has more than 30 logged visits to the White House, with more than 5 to the POTUS himself. Come on!! The “war on women” is a fabrication of the Dem machine using the personal beliefs of Rick Santorum to forge a huge misnomer. And the media let themselves be used to create it, i.e. George Stephanopolous asking the contraception question at a debate when the issue was not even in the public purvey at the time.
Ms. Rosen is not a has-been as you want to make her out to be. She was doing the bidding of the camapaign to paint Ms. Romney as out of touch, and their cold calculation has backfired. Who cares if she had maids, etc., if that is what their lives enabled them to afford. It doesn’t mean they are out-of-touch by any means.
I guess because of her wealth, her breast cancer and her MS didn’t cause her suffering either!
April 14, 2012 at 11:56 am
mpbulletin
“30 logged visits to the White House, with more than 5 to the POTUS himself.”
If ya got a source, I’d love to see it then, possibly, admit a small amount of inaccuracy in my statement if said source is legitimate. Until then I will go off the info I have found from general informational sources. And I’m sure there are a TON of others attached to the news media who have been the White House that do not have a connection to Obama just because they have been there.
“Come on!! The “war on women” is a fabrication”
LOL!!!!! Yeah, then let’s discuss the over 250 pieces of legislation introduced since the “small government” tea party republicans took over numerous state legislatures aimed at controlling the most intimate rights of INDIVIDUAL women. But please go ahead and keep trying to convince yourself it’s “fabricated”.
“She was doing the bidding of the camapaign to paint Ms. Romney as out of touch, and their cold calculation has backfired. ”
Once again show me the source for this beyond what faux may have “reported”.
“Who cares if she had maids, etc., if that is what their lives enabled them to afford. It doesn’t mean they are out-of-touch by any means.”
Really?? Not out of touch since they are able to hire nannies and maids. Uh huh… How many middle class families do you know who can afford maids and nannies?? Sorry but Romney’s consistent comments trying to “relate” to the non-superrich constantly shows how VERY out of touch he is by simply making it clear he has no idea HOW very out of touch he is.
Hmmmm… no wonder you’ve been able to convince yourself the attacks on women are fabricated.
“I guess because of her wealth, her breast cancer and her MS didn’t cause her suffering either!”
Was that brought up AT ALL??? Nope. Please don’t try the typical right-wing trick to put words in people’s mouths.
And here’s some references for you as far as Rosen’s status as a connected individual to the White House:
“ A spokesperson for CNN tells me that contributors are not allowed to function as paid advisers to any campaigns or party committees. The CNN spokesperson emails: Hilary Rosen, like all CNN contributors, is not a paid advisor to any political party or presidential campaign.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-hilary-rosen-controversy-is-absurd/2012/04/12/gIQAD9m0CT_blog.html
“In her paid CNN role, she’s prohibited from working for a campaign.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/04/12/romney_camp_will_keep_calling_hilary_rosen_an_obama_adviser_because_shut_up_that_s_why.html
April 14, 2012 at 12:45 pm
JAMES
Hhhmm… an immediate response within less than two minutes of positing my response. And the response appreas to be complete with all of the talking points as prepared by Axelrod, Plouffe, and Co. I am actually flattered to having my posts followed by the Obama team charged with the mission of refuting the words of bloggers. Given our meager and small following, its not like our views or the comments herein would generate any problems for the Obama campaign.
Cite sources for you. Jay Carney said that he “could not be sure” from the White House visitor logs if the “Hilary Rosen” was the same “Hilary Rosen”. Do they think the American public is “stupid.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/295838/hillary-rosen-frequent-white-house-visitor
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jay-carney-i-know-three-personally-women-named-hilary-rosen/
http://patdollard.com/2012/04/carney-hilary-rosen-visited-white-house-on-a-number-of-occasions/
Middle class Americans with maids or nannies? Are you out-of-touch? Yes I do know middle class Americans who have someone come in to clean, etc. Let’s see “YOUR SOURCE” that the Romney’s had nannies for their sons. Or could it be that Mrs Romney did what many other people do—- raise her children!!??
While a White House advisor may be barred from being a part of the Obama campaign, please don’t think that any of us beleive that the campaigns don’t find ways to manipulate around the “rules”, on either side!!
Tell the “David-squared” that they will have to do better than this for responses.
April 14, 2012 at 6:07 pm
mpbulletin
“I am actually flattered to having my posts followed by the Obama team charged with the mission of refuting the words of bloggers. “
Oh you’re too funny. Don’t feel all that flattered, its just someone who came across some misinformed blog post and decided to refute the so easily believed right-wing.
I see you were unable to refute my point that Rosen’s multiple visits represented nothing more than anyone else’s multiple visits. I know Romney’s campaign has come to the conclusion that the 30 or so visits MUST mean there are close relationships but when pressed they were unable to produce any additional evidence for that. This was during a conference call with reporters that was supposed to be about Romney’s economic plans.
And all your sources were, predictably, right-wing websites. Sorry, but ya gotta do better than that. Good luck next time.
Middle class families with maids and nannies… not too many on the whole my friend. Just because you may know some does not mean it’s the norm. I know of none, myself. And as far as Romney, I said PROBABLY. But given his multiple homes across the country and all it takes to maintain those, it’s a safe bet they did have someone taking care of their kids for them.
“please don’t think that any of us beleive that the campaigns don’t find ways to manipulate around the “rules”, on either side!!”
Uh huh… But ask yourself this question. Is Rosen such a incredibly, indispensable expert that they need to circumvent the rules just to gain her insight? I’m thinking, No. There are plenty of other very intelligent people out there not attached to news organizations that the Obama campaign can and do hire on as advisers. I know you so desperately want to believe that this ONE commentator out of ALL the others is some how intertwined with the President but the facts are slim while the speculation is rampant. Don’t believe all the biased speculation.
And one last note, a bit of advise really… if you want to appear credible at all… keep the misspellings and typos to a minimum.
April 14, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Stothes
It’s a smart move by the Romney campaign to try and seize on Rosen’s comments (regardless of the fact that Rosen’s statement was completely benign…and true). Unfortunately, I doubt it will have much of an effect. Romney lags 27 points behind Obama with women. He’s going to have to muster a whole lot more fake outrage if he wants to close that gap.
April 14, 2012 at 1:42 pm
JAMES
Stothes: I know quite a few stay-at-home mothers, on various points of the economic spectrum, and I think their cumulative experiences make Ms. Rosen’s comments untrue. Additionally, Ms. Rosen was an ardent defender of Michelle Obama on twitter in 2008, virtually demanding that the spouses were off limits (which I agree the families should be). So for her to then turn the tables and use Ann Romney to attack Mitt Romney was outrightly wrong. Why is this a benign thing, while sandra Fluke and Rush Limbaugh were an outrage?
btw, hope all is well with you and yours!