Why Hilary Rosen Is Right: "Ann Romney is not an expert on women's issues and on what mothers need"

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8. My mother was a stay-at-home mother.

And she couldn't have advised my father on the life of a working mother despite having two degrees. Because she didn't work.

She had no personal experience with trying to getting her family roused early enough in the morning, getting coffee and breakfast ready, checking to make sure she had enough cash for the day, remembering to take the bills with her at work to mail on time, remembering if she filled up the car the night before in order to get to work, getting caught in traffic en route to work, trying to do the 9-5 bit (without sexual harassment, coworker incompetence, superior incompetence, fear of surprise termination, etc.), taking calls from the kids while trying to her job, worrying about the kids being alone before she gets home, having to shop for dinner after getting stuck in traffic on the commute home, and so on. And finally, finding out there isn't enough money to pay the car insurance on time after dinner.

Mothers work. Just not the same experience as working mothers.