Dear Melinda Henneberger: You can raise 5 boys, battle MS & cancer, and still not be a good person [View all]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Ann Romney takes Obama to task
July 8, 2012 12:02 am
By Melinda Henneberger

I believe Ann Romney when she says she's tougher than she was even four years ago. And nobody who's raised five boys and gone up against both breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, as she has, was any hothouse orchid to begin with.

Recently, the presumptive Republican nominee's wife told the Miami Herald that what she most wants the public to know about her is "that I am pretty direct and pretty honest and I don't pull any punches." Message received, Mrs. R! After your latest remarks about President Barack Obama wanting to "kill Romney," though, you might consider dialing back on the kapow.

Now, nobody who is in the public eye every day gets off gaffe-free or phrases everything just as intended. Thank goodness, too, or our tightly scripted politics would be even more devoid of humanity and our elections even more in thrall to those scary voices in the ads.

But was Ann Romney's over-the-top assertion that Mr. Obama's campaign strategy can be summed up in two words -- "kill Romney" -- even an oopsie? I don't think so, because later in the same joint CBS interview with her husband, she interrupted him to repeat herself.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/ann-romney-takes-obama-to-task-643769/