Ann Romney reaches out to women??????Republican style..

[Vietnameravet]

Last edited Wed Aug 29, 2012, 07:13 PM - Edit history (1)

I could hardly believe what I heard when Ann Romney was interviewed by Dianne Sawyer just before the speech.. This is the woman that is supposed to reach out to women. She talked about being disappointed with finding out the last child was yet another boy and then said..

"I had all these boys," Ann Romney said in an exclusive interview. "But one thing I can say about boys is they've taught me much more than I think I would have learned by being a mother of girls. They taught me to be real, to have no baloney and to just say it straight and then get over it. And that was a great lesson."

Yes having a girl would never have taught me to be real and I would be talking baloney because that's what girls teach you! Now excuse me while I do my speech and reach out to women..


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ann-romney-sons-dads-advice-prepared-tonights-speech/story?id=17094368

[CTyankee]

1. geez, what an insult to my daughter who has 3 girls...

what an incredibly STUPID and INSENSITIVE thing to say!

I hope Sawyer said something in response, but I'm guessing she let it slide...

I'd like to slap Ann Romney silly...

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. It's no wonder that they mock President Obama for being the father of girls....

My father was father to two girls and he thoroughly enjoyed it -- as I think President Obama enjoys Malia and Sasha. Even my family dog was a female.

[tibbiit]

4. Oh yes thats right, that was a dig a the President

You couldnt prove it but it was there. what a jerk.
tib

[Vietnameravet]

13. I didnt catch

that this was a dig at the President and did not really think so even after several posters said it was..but the more I think about it..the more I realize that this really was a subtle dig at President Obama..

Took me a while to catch it..but it is definitely there..

[Kber]

16. Oh I get it. Real Americans have sons, not worthless daughters.

[qanda]

3. My mother had five girls

I'm sure she has no clue what Ann Romney is talking about!

[ellie]

5. God, she is an asshole.

[Lucy Goosey]

6. She's just a horrible person

She doesn't even know how shitty that sounds, does she? She and Mitt deserve each other; the country deserves better.

Also, I assume that's meant to be a very subtle dig at the President and the First Lady, right?

[liberalmuse]

7. In the Mormon church...

our female speakers served up the same platitudes while lifting men on a pedestal and telling us essentially that it was our calling to bow down to them. That's essentially how they see the female's role. It is considered an honor to subjugate oneself to a male, and "wife/mother" is a woman's sole identity. I'm not buying it.

[rbixby]

11. Its definitely something about male children meaning you're more blessed or something

[JDPriestly]

8. Affreuse. Romney will know what that means.

[kestrel91316]

9. Oh, you're just jealous of her husband and lord's "success".

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Having boys taught her how to make grilled cheese sandwiches.

That makes just as much sense as her statement.

[GallopingGhost]

12. I saw that too, and her comments, while infuriating,

aren't surprising.

They fit perfectly within the framework of the Mormon/Republican mindset that men are more valuable than women.

[Amonester]

14. What is with that otheR subjugated women joining in their subjugatoR'$

[font size="7"]waR on WOMEN????[/font]

[Kber]

15. As a girl

and the mother of a wonderfull and wonderfully "real" little girl.

Fuck you, Anne.

(Real enough for you, honey?)

[Kber]

17. by the way - do you have a link to that?

I'd love to repost it on FB.

Thx!

kber

[Vietnameravet]

19. Should have done this before

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ann-romney-sons-dads-advice-prepared-tonights-speech/story?id=17094368

[budkin]

18. A GRAND SLAM! HUGE SUCCESS!

according to the talking heads...