· "Who does she think she is?" Strangers react to Ann Romney's Marie Antoinette act

[kpete]

"She looks guilty about something"

by digby

I happened to see this clip at my vets office this afternoon and the reaction among the other patrons --- all strangers --- was surprisingly voluble and hostile. One woman made a face and said to her friend, "who does she thinks she is?" A man sitting on the other side of the room said, "if they didn't do anything wrong, they shouldn't be worried." The girl behind the counter said, "she looks guilty about something."

VIDEO:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/who-does-she-think-she-is-strangers.html

[spanone]

1. the queen answers to no one.

the romney have been royalty all of their lives.

[freshwest]

2. +1

[TahitiNut]

124. America's Ruling Class Has Spoken.

It's about time we called it like it is: Ruling Class.

[FSogol]

3. "THEN LET THEM EAT CAKE," shrieked Ann.

[Raster]

6. Ann shrieks "let them eat cake." Mitt shoves your face into the piece just handed you.

And then Ryan wants you to pay for it.

[aquart]

37. +1000

[siligut]

41. Plus, they laugh and point at you for having cake on your face

Mean-ass bullies. Pathetic really.

[Arugula Latte]

129. ...and then forcibly cut your hair off 'cuz you got some cake in it.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. She's going to be a real campaign negative, she is so unlikeable.

Plus she is always answering questions like this, which Willy Mittens should be answering. This snarling rich lady is not the candidate, but now that she's a full tilt operative of the campaign, she is fair game in every way.
I have never seen anyone look more like a liar during an interview. Shifty, defensive, and just unpleasant in every way.

[Submariner]

27. Plus secret service protections for her brood

of 5 kids and 16 grandkids and a dancing horse would be budget busters compared to the much smaller Obama family.

[flamingdem]

70. crap, Rafalka gets security detail too?

neigh!

[catbyte]

64. I didn't pay that much attention to her until

I saw that ABC interview when she said it was "their turn" to occupy the White House. The hair at the back of my neck stood up and I yelled at he screen, "Oh, yeah? We'll see about that, Little Ms. Entitled!" What a snotty bitch.

[Scuba]

72. +1

[PatSeg]

91. I recall hearing that she didn't want

Mitt to run for president again. She gives the impression that she is indulging his little hobby of running for political office, but she's not going to like it or even pretend that she likes it.

"You want to run for president? Fine! But don't expect me to be all nicey-nice and I'm still taking my horse to the Olympics."

[NICO9000]

96. By November, she'll be even more hated than he is

Her facial expressions and body language said it all. When she said Mittens was "honest" and that we should just trust him (HAH!) on the taxes. What a despicable couple the RMoneys are.

[Moonwalk]

104. The Repukes think she and Ryan are Mitts' buffer; that they're going to be his human face...

Ann, after all, was beloved after that "didn't work a day in her life" comment went out and she suddenly became the wholesome, "Leave it to Beaver," 50's Mom, staying at home, raising the kids

So now she's been handed the role, along with Ryan, to be, well, Mitt's "beard." Their job is to speak for Mitt, and thus make him seem more human and likable--because he's not liked, but, presumably, they are. In short, the GOP is making the same mistake they made with Palin. Their candidate hasn't got "it" so they're trying to get "it" by proxy. And just as with Palin, they don't realize that they've missed the mark with their proxy (proxies as this includes Ryan). Ann might be beloved so long as she plays the little wife who only talks about her kids and horses and struggles with illness, but get her on taxes and such, and--as with Palin--the truth about what kind of person she really is comes out. And it's clear that she's no more "human" than her husband, and not more likable.

[renate]

105. I think you've nailed it exactly

Let's just hope the Romney campaign doesn't--I want them to send Ann out again and again and again.

[cabot]

5. The entitlement that drips off of these people

just boggles my mind. Unreal.

[Bozita]

33. Yes, ... let them eat car elevators!

[Kennah]

53. Aren't those standard under TANF?

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. She has a big face.

[Voice for Peace]

13. lol

[ann---]

55. And

thus, big teeth. Yikes!

[Bette Noir]

131. Such big teeth you have, Grandma.

The better to EAT YOU WITH!

[riverwalker]

8. I know the type

anyone who deals with the public has dealt with a Ann Romney.

NURSE! Where is my doctor, he was going to discharge me this morning.
I'm sorry, there was an extreme unexpected emergency he had to deal with.
Well! WHY did he say he would be here by 9:00 then! I have a 2:00 hair appointment!
(Maybe the guy down the hall didn't make a reservation for his heart attack, bitch!) Oh, I'm soooo sorry, I'll see what I can do, I'll call him right away (like hell I will, you want him to let the guy die so you get your hair done?)
My husband knows the CEO of this hospital! He's going to hear about this!
I'm soooo sorry, I'll do what I can to speed things along.
(What do you want lady? The other guy isn't dying fast enough for you?)

[beyurslf]

40. You captured it so well!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. On the frequent flyers' discussion board Flyer Talk, they call that kind of behavior

(trying to pull rank on airline personnel to get special treatment) DYKWIM "Do you know who I am?"

[Ikonoklast]

71. "Yes, you are the guy that I'm throwing off my aircraft."

"That man coming up the ramp is an Air Marshall, and I suggest you don't start screaming at him because he won't be as nice to you as I have been."

I know an Air Marshall, and the stories he tells makes you wonder if most people were raised by hyenas.

[hobbit709]

77. The last person that asked me that question I replied to "Yeah, you're an asshole"

[ellenfl]

9. interestingly her response that they had already released all they

were going to release because every time they put something out it's more grist for the mill says more than she thinks. they've only released one year's returns! very defensive posture, imo.

ellen fl

[Kalidurga]

10. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

People keep complaining about our very low tax rates and deductions for horses.

[graywarrior]

11. She and Mittens feel "entitled" to not reveal anything

and "entitled" to the presidency. They both know that the Kochs are gonna try to buy/steal this election and that's fine with them because that's how they've gotten everything they have in their "entitled" lives.

[progressivebydesign]

12. but do the interviewers say "No, you have not even released ONE return?" or do they smile politely.

while she lies her ass off.

Wow.. that's the first I've seen of her in a video. The way she casts her eyes down after she says that, really gives a dismissive air to the other people. Or should I say "you people."

That " the more we release, the more they attack" is absolutely fucking ludicrous!!! What are they HIDING???

[handmade34]

28. I posted earlier... they have

released returns...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021140226

[Generic Brad]

14. Mitt is applying for a job - President of the United States

As an employer, when people do not completely fill out their application, I do not even waste my time interviewing them. It indicates to me that they are not detail orientated enough to do the basics of the job and also signifies a lack of respect. As a voter, the Romney's are not being transparent while applying for the most influential job in the world, and for that reason alone he does not deserve our votes.

[kestrel91316]

29. It's like a few prospective clients over the years

at my veterinary practice - they get all huffy and defiant when asked to fill out the client information sheet with address and phone number and say, "I don't want to fill this out! I just want the doctor to look at my cat!!" We tell them that CA law requires us to obtain and keep this info in their file and they stomp out, cursing us.

Do they pull this crap at their physician's office?? Entitled jackasses.

[CatWoman]

15. Lawrence about to discuss this :)

[HughBeaumont]

16. You're going to see a lot of this. It's called the "V for Vendetta" moment.

It's akin to the scene in the movie where bar patrons and others are watching the obvious propaganda and many of them are saying "this is bullshit".

I think a lot of people, the mindless unreachable jackasses excepted, are going to be waking up to the personalities of the New Annointed American Royalty, and they're not going to like what they see.

[HangOnKids]

36. The Finger Pointing And The Slapping Down Of The Hands Are Great Tells

As a poker player I pay a great deal of attention to body signals, of course Annie Prancing Pony does not play poker, but she is all but SCREAMING back off our finances you dumb proles.

This fucking Mach 5 face lift witch has another thing coming in November. Even with the Koch's trying to steal this election, she will be weeping in her Holy underwear.

[Swede Atlanta]

17. This is exactly the Marie Antoinette syndrome.....

What she has to understand is running for office is not the same as complying the local zoning ordinances....the ordinances states the residential structure must be not less than 40' from the abutment adjacent to the local thoroughfare......this is about people voting for a person that can blow up the world, can significantly impact the lives (and cause the deaths) of tens if not thousands or millions of Americans and others. So to hide behind the "legally required" curtain suggests there is something to hide. The American people, regardless of the legal requirements, are entitled to transparency on the person who is asking for the public trust to lead them for at least 4 years.

I suggest Ann engage in some self-reflection, think about how many inner-city kids could have been fed, how many after-school programs could have been funded off her $77K tax deduction for her horse.

She is the epitome of the 1% that Americans despise, not because of their wealth, but because their arrogance and total appreciation for their position and how that position is not entirely of their making. Regardless of what the f*****ng GOP says, in today's world, there are no self-made men or women. Their success is a product of their own drive, creativity, ingenuity, etc. combined WITH the benefits of our educated workforce, our infrastructure, our economic system, our legal system that protects/limits them from liability, enables them to enforce IP and unfair business practices against competitors, etc.

So Ann, go to bed tonight and pray for your mortal soul because from where I sit it is tarnished. I wouldn't be hoping for a planet in the afterlife where Mittens can keep you eternally pregnant and making babies. I think the afterlife is much less complicated than that.

[kestrel91316]

30. In a word: arrogance.

[Cha]

35. Good Advice, Swede Atlanta.. here's a comment I

found on the obama diary in which the author is treating Mitt as if he were applying for a job! Which, as Democrats and anyone else with a brain knows, he is!

"Earl Gray · Top Commenter · Sr. Controls Consultant at Honeywell

Dear Mr. Romney,

We have contacted you now several times regarding your missing tax returns for years ending 2000 through 2011. To date we have only received a partial return for year ending 2010 and a “projection” of taxes for year ending 2011. Unfortunately this is inadequate documentation to evaluate your financial history and allegiances, which are critical to understand your previous behavior.

Given the disappointing Swiss bank accounts and Cayman shell corporations that we have previously discussed, these documents are now critical to better understand your past financial background. This understanding is in turn required in order to make an informed decision regarding your capability to perform the financially sensitive position that you have applied for.

If you have recently released the tax returns for years ending 2000-2011, please accept our sincere apology and we will continue to evaluate your application. If however we do not receive your tax records for the years ending 2000-2011 , we regret that we will be unable to process your application, and unable to consider you for the position for which you have applied.

If this is the case, we want to send our appreciation for your effort and application and encourage you to reapply when you are better able to meet with our admittedly high standards.

Thank You and Best Regards.
The American People."

[Digit]

107. Perfect!

Although this letter was written tongue in cheek, it is absolutely necessary that Romney release up to date, complete tax returns for national security reasons. Plus it is also a fairness issue and we certainly do not want to set a precedent for others in the future seeking to govern our country.

The fact that he has not done so, and refuses to do so until possibly after the election disqualifies him from the position as president.

[Cha]

112. It is so perfect because it's done

tongue in cheek but has the ring of truth in what's going on here!

[CanonRay]

86. She doesn't neet to pray, her and Mitt already have their own celestial planet

all reserved and waiting in exchange for tithing so much to the church.

[VPStoltz]

18. They don't want us to see that the dancing horse is a $70K write-off.

Well, said she, doesn't everyone have a dancing horse?

[gulliver]

19. Why do the Romneys presume they deserve special treatment?

Why do they think they should get a pass no one else gets?

[dflprincess]

21. Because they are special

you people just have to learn to accept that. (though I hope I really didn't need the icon)

[dsteve01]

45. Special people

should not be allowed to run for office. Everything is on display when your running for office.

This is why Donald Trump did not run for office. Because we were going to ask him for his tax record.

[Skittles]

133. because that is CUSTOMARY for the rich

[alphafemale]

20. Somewhere, Leona Helmsley is dancing.

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There has finally come along, a rich twit more unlikeable than she.

Edit - Helmsley not Helnsley

[aquart]

39. You don't believe the lovely Ann is a campaign asset?

[Raster]

67. Sure she is....for Barrack Obama.

[ejpoeta]

76. usually the spouse is the likeable one they put out front to pad their numbers.

What are they going to do if this is what they've got for that purpose?

[Ed Suspicious]

22. I just can't believe the Romney campaign doesn't have somebody handling her.

Do they not have a PR person? What a travesty she is for a campaign.

[PatSeg]

90. I have a feeling that Ann doesn't listen to their advice

I've had the same feeling about Mitt. They are used to doing things THEIR way and they don't need any input from the "help".

[hifiguy]

23. She's a cross of Lovey Howell

and a hyena.

[HangOnKids]

38. Good Gawd You Are Good

I've been laughing for 5 minutes!

[hifiguy]

42. Thanks, folks. I'll be here through Saturday night.

Tip your waitresses and bartenders generously.

[HangOnKids]

43. Seriously hifi

You are on my DU top ten of really great posters. I've read many of your posts and I agree with you that you should be in a much better space than you are. You really rock, are dead straight smart, and I am glad to read your rambling thoughts.

[hifiguy]

47. Thanks!

I try to inform and/or entertain

[HangOnKids]

50. You Just Rock Dude

Thanks for being here. I appreciate you.

[dsteve01]

46. Pretty good

Mad props.
Mad props, everywhere.

[calimary]

58. GREAT one!!! DUzy!

hifiguy - you ROCK!

A cross between Lovey Howell and a hyena!!!

[HughBeaumont]

78. That begs for a Photoshop . . .

[otohara]

24. If Michele Obama Refused

They would pull the angry scary black woman

[Fla Dem]

85. You got that exactly right. Can you just imagine the uproar

had this been Mrs. Obama? Uppity, arrogant, angry; can just imagine all those words being used.

[maddiemom]

126. Whoa! Could you see Michele reacting in any way like Ann?

The press would destroy her. Both the Obamas have had to show a lot of grace under pressure. They are the truly class act.

[Cha]

25. Mrs Willard looks meaner than

hell. I'm glad I finally did look at her pic. Very good for Democracy that she lets her viciousness all hang out. Her "you people" schtick is getting old.

Thank you so much kpete for posting this!

[darkangel218]

26. Her face and mouth kind of resembles D. Trump

Go figure

[upi402]

32. Satan has kinder eyes n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

31. Having finally watched the clip, i will say she does not give good PR

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Even if the campaign plans to use the, no doubt future, attacks on her as a ploy for sympathy. She was grating and came off as dismissive and elitist. Not traits likely to garner sympathy in the American voter.

They'd do best to shut her up and keep her out if sight as much as possible. Or so I'm inclined to think.

[leftylauren]

34. She's doesn't do the campaign any favors

Just because SHE said they aren't releasing any more doesn't mean people are going to stop asking. If this is how she is going answer she can expect to make the news cycle every single time.
They are just THAT arrogant to think it will go away if they just say so.

[dsteve01]

44. The Aristocrats never

understand the anger of the countryside until the 'peasants' show up with pitchforks.

[caveat_imperator]

97. And if these rethug aristocrats steal the election

those pitchforks will come out sooner that they'd expect.

[DesertRat]

48. My 81 year old mother called me after watching this

And said "Ann Romney seems very tough and sarcastic, not the sweet, nice person I thought she was." Keep talking to the media, Ann.

[Astazia]

49. There are only TWO reasons Mitt Rmoney wants to be President

1. To finish his daddy's campaign

2. Because Ann Rmoney wants to be American
royalty.

[xtraxritical]

109. And to give himself lower taxes, eliminate the estate tax too.

[maddiemom]

128. 3. He has more money than he could possibly ever spend...

and he needs to do something to pass the time, AND give him a place in the history books. He's obviously not going the Andrew Carnegie route.

[importDavid]

51. I can't wait until this airs tomorrow night!

Tell all your friends (especially the repuglican ones) to watch this.

Polls should take about 48 hours to start dropping...

[jillan]

54. I just saw this clip on Ed's show and she was pointing her finger at the interviewer while saying

that.

What is with rw women and wagging their finger in someone's face?

[DesertRat]

60. They give her a pass.

Imagine how the media would react if Michelle Obama behaved this way!

[lonestarnot]

63. Just more of the big I little you shit. Both of them have leather faces.

[MrMickeysMom]

56. Exclusive?

Does anyone see anything "exclusive" about the media and a conversation with this woman?

I'd rather interview the vet that took care of her dog than listen to anything she has to say. It's been said all before by the the "new rich".

Somebody drop this thing off at the broom clinic. The extraction will be about 3 hours, it's so far up her ass.

[DallasNE]

57. She Looks Indignant And Angry

As in why do I have to answer to you people, besides, your questions are all stupid and inane.

[Marie Marie]

59. I've got ice cubes in my freezer that exude more warmth than Cruella (I have 2 DeVilles) Romney.

What a horrid person.

[AtomicKitten]

61. Okay then. We'll be in touch. Next.

[Stainless]

62. Republican First Ladies

Laura Bush was a likeable person even though her husband was an imbecile. Barbara Bush was an elitist with an attitude. Nancy Reagan was an annoying enabler. Betty Ford was a decent person.
Ann Romney is a typical holier-than-thou Mormon matriarch. Her elitist attitude is disgusting. She is a horrible person and she would be a terrible first lady.

[allan01]

65. re:"Who does she think she is?" Strangers react to Ann Romney's Marie Antoinette act

yea, miss little hot ,, ahem.

[Grammy23]

66. Who does she think she is? Indeed.

It was apparent from this interview that Queen Ann is used to being in charge. She used measured words, carefully thought out so that she never used the words "Income Taxes". She had been admonished to never let those two words cross her lips.

But I think that the thing that stood out to me was her arrogance and absolute insistence that they would not be releasing any more information regarding their finances. She stated that they had done all that was necessary in order to be in compliance with the requirements ---- although somehow I think the partial information that has been released does not quite fill the bill. It leaves way more questions than answers.

What Ms Highhorse fails to understand is that it is Mitt who is applying for a J-O-B and we are the ones interviewing and evaluating his fitness for said job. She acts as if we all should be grateful for Mittens even considering this job and seems miffed to have to go through the pesky scrutiny of the vetting process.

I have a flash for her, if everything in their tax returns is as she claims.....golden......then there will be NO problem for them. The only way she will have a problem is if it reveals something they don't want us to know.

This is not going to go away just because she demands it. In fact, the more high handed she is about it, the more evasive they are, the more haughty they act, the more they can COUNT ON US HOUNDING THEM ALL THE WAY to Nov. 6th. After that, it will be a non-issue. Thank goodness.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

68. Where do you live, kpete?

[kpete]

115. heaven

San Diego, CA

peace, kpete

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

135. That's great news. San Diego tends to lean conservative though it's changing.

Happy to hear the good news and responses from those folks!

[jsr]

69. Didn't Marie Antoinette have more beauty and charm?

Can you imagine this rude, cold-hearted witch as our First Lady?

[quaker bill]

73. To them, this was supposed to be a minor issue

that popped up from the "little people" for a couple of weeks then went away. It was never in their plans to still be talking about it.

"We have given you our answer so be good little people and stop asking now"

The problem is that the answer is insufficient. The little people have the audacity to think they have some "right to know", so the subject will not die.

The Romneys did not learn the lesson from Kerry and the SBVT, or the Obama BC. From Kerry, making light of a question, even a ridiculous one, and not answering for weeks is a losing strategy. From the Obama BC, even the most absurd questions, even when fully addressed, never go away anymore. (and this question is legit, so it is even worse)

The tone and timbre of both her and Mitt's rhetoric of late indicate one thing very clearly, they are losing and they are beginning to fully understand this.

The Obama camp is very good at one thing and has been since it first came on the scene. Highlighting an opponent's weaknesses and steadily picking away at them. Ryan is a gold mine in this regard, so there will be more to come.

[JHB]

100. He always brushed past the issue (senate race, governor race)...

...and he did so successfully. But he won the governor's race, and it seemed like "only a few wonks care" in the senate race. Other factors loomed larger in that loss.

He thought he'd do it again, and it's not working out the way he'd lulled himself into believing it would.

[muriel_volestrangler]

74. Would you buy a used car from this woman?

I wouldn't. And I wouldn't buy one from her husband who has sent her to handle the tax return question, in the hope that people will be easier on the candidate's spouse who isn't personally running.

[LynneSin]

75. I can't see her as first lady, she would be wretched

Michelle Obama has come across so personable. I love the idea of the garden created at the White House and honestly, it inspired me to put one in my backyard. Michelle Obama invites local school kids to the garden to have them learn about garden and eating healthy. I know that the vegetables grown go to cooking the meals at the White House and extras are donated to local charities. Heck just the other day I learned that there are Bee Hives at the garden and that the honey harvested from them has been used to brew beer served at the White House.

If Romney was elected I could see all of that being bulldozed so Ann could build a car garage or put a barn in for half million dollar horses. I doubt local kids would be invited to see those things.

As much as I was not a fan of Nancy Reagan or or any of the Bush First Ladies - even they came across more caring than Ann Romney.

[Ganja Ninja]

79. She really does come across as a very unlikeable, very snooty rich lady.

She's the type of person you couldn't spend 2 minutes alone in a room with before she said something insulting to demean you.

[myrna minx]

80. She's due back on the croquet field with her playing card minions.

Have you ever seen a prosepective first lady dripping with such haughty contempt? This is the "softer" side of the Romneys? Even Barbara Bush's "image" was grandmotherly when she was first lady. We weren't exposed to her true "beautiful mind" self until W. Wow.

[eShirl]

81. watched the clip w/ sound off: EXTREMEly defensive and angry

is how she somes off

PS: struck a nerve; keep picking at it

[JHB]

82. Does anyone else find the tax-lawyer weasel words telling?

(probably better to ask "how many", or make a poll of it)

She (and Mitt, and Mitt, and his proxies) always go on about how they've released what they are legally required.

"What's legally required" is a minimum requirement, it's the "you must be this tall to get on this ride" level. When Mitt made hiring decisions at Bain, how many people did he hire who only gave the bare minimum they could get away with? How many investments did Mitt make where the prospectus said "we have nothing to hide, just trust us on this"?

"There's nothing we're hiding." Marvelous! Of course, Ronald Reagan famously said "trust, but verify", right? We'd like to verify.

[davidpdx]

83. She thinks she's more important that Jesus

[distantearlywarning]

84. Haughty and Dismissive

Very unlikeable. This woman is definitely a liability for the Romney-Ryan campaign.

[Grammy23]

87. Wasn't she billed as the best thing Romney had going for him?

Seems like I remember just a few weeks ago (or earlier this summer) they were touting HER as the one person he could count on to help us "know him better"....to humanize him....and to help rid us of the impression that he is cold, stiff and humorless.

WOW! If she is the antidote to that, gak! She looks just as uptight and uncomfortable as him when she is talking about their tax situation. After watching that interview, I have a very sneaking suspicion thatthere is more that they are not telling us----a LOT more.

Just release the returns and we'll be judge of whether they have anything to hide. We do not and SHOULD NOT have to take their word for it. They would not tolerate that from the Obama side and, in fact, would be floating rumors that they are hiding something.

[sarge43]

88. Must wonder about Romney's staff

With the Ryan "oooo, shiny" media diversion, one would think they'd be thrilled with the tax thing falling off the radar. Instead they let Just Call Me Marie Antoinette drag it back on again ... and badly.

[Avalux]

89. Visceral reaction to the pointing finger and indignation (how dare you!)

It really doesn't matter what's coming out of her mouth, her body language and the way she speaks are what cause such reactions in people.

[qb]

92. Please don't sully Marie Antoinette by comparing her to the likes of Ann Romney

[Tribetime]

93. SHE THINKS SHE'S ENTITLED to take their word for it.

The "Romneys" can do whatever to take advantage of not paying taxes or hiding money since they're rich. Like someone else said I'm pissed I'm paying taxes for the roads this asshole is privledged to cross the country on, while evading his taxes.

[JohnnyRingo]

94. "I don't want to go back to wearing cloth coats".

I recall back in the '60s when Nixon was running for president. My mother got so mad because Pat Nixon slipped a statement to the press that she wasn't about to go back to wearing cloth coats if the Dick lost the election.

I'm guessing it was a case of political gamesmanship, but the release of that statement was very effective at the time. "Who does she think she is" was on the lips of every Democratic housewife like my mom.

I hope the Dems use this clip accordingly.

[Generic Other]

95. The downside of being a Mormon woman

That "sister wife" game face. Defending her man. Just looking at her makes my blood pressure spike.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

98. Seems like she's already having measurements taken for the new White House drapes

and that SHE will tell us how we are to behave when her kingly husband arrives to hold Court. If I were running for high office, I'd try to comply with every tradition whether legally required or not to avoid even the mere appearance of impropriety. I wouldn't be dictating to the people how things will play out.

[Swede]

99. Let them eat one of those chocolate, um, uh, chocolate goodies.

[renate]

106. lol! perfect!

[mick063]

101. Those crazy aristocrats

Peasants must show proof they are eligible to vote.
Aristocrat candidates require no proof of their civic responsibility....and it goes far beyond taxes.

The wicked witch of the west has released her flying monkeys.

[sofa king]

111. A guy walks into a talent agency...

... and he tells the agent, "you've got to see this act I've put together...."

...

By the end of it, he's thrown his own feces all around the room, the IRS is breathing down his neck, he and his dog and his wife and her horse and Paul Ryan are covered from head to toe in lies and bullshit, and they're all having sex with each other over the corpse of someone's dead grandmother while shooting black teenagers and stringing up women for having their periods, and it all ends with him upending every shocked observer in the room, stealing their wallets, and spending the money on a war with an insane nuclear power.

"Well that's a hell of a thing," says the agent. "What do you call that act?"

The guy smiles at the agent and snaps his finger with a flourish. "Romney for President!"

[FatIrishBastard]

102. "To avoid complication

she never kept the same address, in conversation she spoke just like a baroness, met a man from China, went down to Geisha Minah, then again incidentally if you're that way inclined. Perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally), for cars she couldn't care less, fastidious & precise...she's a Killer...Queeeeen... gunpowder guillotine, dynamite with a laser beam, guaranteed to blow your' mind...anytime. Recommended at the price, insatiable an appetite....wanna try?"...

[rbrnmw]

113. Should be played at Republi-CON when she enters

[FatIrishBastard]

121. Thanks!

To my fellow Buckeye, & how 'bout them Reds? !

[rbrnmw]

123. Go Reds Go

[The_Casual_Observer]

103. This could turn into one big mess for rmoney if the dems & press turn up the heat about this

This and Medicare will be the only topics until November.

[cyclezealot]

108. Speculation runs rampant about what are they hiding.

Here's is some knowledgeable speculation from a source who might well know.
Let's do something about it.. Flood the questioners at the pending presidential debates with our questions about, 'what do they have to hide and why should we trust Mitt's , just 'trust me.' bit.

.
.An Analysis of Romney's Taxes From Tax Analysts
.
Then finally, with Ann Romney telling NBC News that two years of taxes are all we are going to get from the Romney’s, we discuss what Mitt Romney might be hiding with Lee Sheppard, a contributing editor to the influential provider of tax news and analysis, Tax Analysts. She just published a report at Tax Analysts, “Your Mitt Romney Tax Issues Cheat Sheet”.
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http://ianmasters.com/sites/default/files/mp3/bbriefing_2012_08_15c_lee%20sheppard.mp3

[DinahMoeHum]

110. And she couldn't even stay in London to watch Rafalca perform???

WTF is up with that?

Hell, if I sponsored an Olympic equestrian horse like she did, I'd sure as hell want tickets to watch the Olympic event in person!

Sheesh, what cold fish, she and her husband.

[AnnieK401]

114. If the Romney's are this arrogant while running

imagine what they'll be like if they actually get in the WH.

[Dont call me Shirley]

116. Ann's real dark roots are showing through her fake blonde hair.

[Pharaoh]

117. kick for later

[AsahinaKimi]

118. goman na hitoga kirada!

I hate arrogance.

[napkinz]

119. Ann is just "regular folk"

[judy70]

120. What the Republican Party should be called

She looks more like a nazi frau to me. I really believe that the republican party has become the Reptilian Repugnant Nazi Party.

[Cleita]

122. I was shaking my head at this.

In my day we would have called her a stuck-up bitch. Someone really needs to pull her down a peg or two. It's not that far from her screaming, "Off with their heads!" next.

[maddiemom]

125. Actually Marie Antoinette was a naive, sheltered fourteen year old

when she became queen, and for more than twenty years continued to be sheltered, pampered, and was none too intelligent or curious. Ann Romney is a woman of modern times and all the advantages, but obviously has been also pampered all her life. I never thought much about her (actually, as a horse person, felt defensive of her "hobby.&quot . Now that she has been speaking out, she does seem to be a clueless, sociopathic rich woman.

[Liberal_in_LA]

127. +1

[Arugula Latte]

130. The hostility she's projecting is just amazing.

She's just seething and leans forward very aggressively and uses very forceful hand gestures. Can you imagine if Michelle Obama ever demonstrated body language a fraction this threatening? She's be ripped apart as an Angry Black Woman.

[D23MIURG23]

132. I hope Ann Rmoney keeps saying yes to interviews.

She and Shitt have privilege oozing out of their pores. The more exposure these people get, the harder it will be for anyone to vote for them.

[reformist2]

134. Her life of privilege was made possible by the pain and agony of thousands of fired workers.

I hope that movie "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" haunts her in her dreams.

[tomm2thumbs]

136. COULD IT BE??