Romney Praises Iowa's Joni Ernst: 'She Didn't Just Sit At Home Needle-Pointing'

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – MAY 30, 2014, 2:42 PM EDT

As he sung the praises of GOP Senate hopeful Joni Ernst in Iowa on Friday, Mitt Romney made a remark that harkened back to a moment that his 2012 campaign feverishly exploited.

Appearing alongside Ernst in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Romney hailed the conservative upstart as a "real Iowan in a lot of respects."

"She was raised here, she worked on a farm," Romney told the crowd, as quoted by the Des Moines Register. "She didn't just sit at home needle-pointing, as you know, she was doing some work on the farm – squealing work on the farm." He was referring to a memorable television ad from the Ernst campaign, but some Democrats thought it was a rich line coming from Romney.

Lis Smith @Lis_Smith

.@MittRomney says shld vote for woman bc she didn't just "sit at home." What's his prob w stay at home moms? #2012

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/05/30/romney-ernst-rally-iowa/9764641/ …

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[Blue Owl]

1. Uh oh, Mitch is breaking out the binders...

[DonViejo]

2. I recall, back in 1992, a certain woman of the

Democratic Party persuasion making this statement; "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life." And being torn to shreds by the wing nut brigade. I cannot wait to learn how the same brigade responds to Mitwit's comment today.

[valerief]

3. OMG, he got a two-fer!!!! Bashed the homemakers *and* insulted women

by labeling us all as needlepointers (not that there's anything wrong with needlepointing, but men do it, too).



http://www.amazon.com/Rosey-Griers-Needlepoint-Men-Grier/dp/0802704212/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401478400&sr=8-1&keywords=rosey+grier+needlepoint

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Well I guess I should run for the Senate based on Mitt's list of qualifications. I not

only raised 250 head of hogs as a teenager, I also know how to needlepoint, knit, crochet, and tat! Also drove tractors, plowed, baled hay, and judged beef cattle.

[tanyev]

5. She didn't just do fancy horse-dancing?

Mitt simply cannot pull off the folksy "47% talk", but he keeps trying.