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FourScore

(9,704 posts)
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:57 AM Sep 2012

Ann Romney is sick of you people not understanding how hard it is to be Ann Romney

Fri Sep 21, 2012 at 08:15 AM PDT
Ann Romney is sick of you people not understanding how hard it is to be Ann Romney
by Kaili Joy Gray



Ann Romney is once again up on her gold-plated cross, and she's got another message for the ingrates out there who don't appreciate how hard it is to be her:

During an interview early this evening with Radio Iowa, Mrs. Romney directly addressed her fellow Republicans who’ve criticized her husband.

“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring,” she said. “This is hard and, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”


Ann has told "you people" time and time again to leave Mitt alone, stop asking questions, and just be grateful that he's willing to run for president. Shut up and show a little appreciation for the Romneys and their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice—passing up constant $30 million-a-year job offers, even though "poor guy, he took no pay when he did the Olympics for three years and no pay when he was governor for four years."

She's tried to make women get it:

"Women, you need to wake up," she urged them. "Women have to ask themselves who's going to have and be there for you. I can promise you, I know, that Mitt will be there for you. He will stand up for you, he will hear your voices."


She's tried to make Latinos get it:

You’d better really look at your future and figure out who’s going to be the guy that’s going to make it better for you and your children, and there is only one answer...

...It really is a message that would resonate well if they could just get past some of their biases that have been there from the Democratic machines that have made us look like we don’t care about this community.


But no. You people just won't let up, with the mockery of the Romneys' car elevator; with the questions about all those millions stashed away in secret bank accounts; with the outright disgust at Ann's tales of woe about struggling to survive on Mitt's inherited stock portfolio.

But you people—you women, you Latinos, you Democrats and now you Republicans—just don't get it. You're so mean and classless with all your questions and doubt and disgust. Heck, that's why Ann so astutely noted:

My horse has more style and more class in its hoof than they do in their whole deal.


Ugh. You people. You just have no idea how hard it is to be Ann. Just stop it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/21/1134767/-Ann-Romney-is-sick-of-you-people-not-understanding-how-hard-it-is-to-be-Ann-Romney
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Ann Romney is sick of you people not understanding how hard it is to be Ann Romney (Original Post) FourScore Sep 2012 OP
How DARE "You People" question my Mittens. n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Sep 2012 #1
Not to worry, Ann BeyondGeography Sep 2012 #2
I really wish we could "like" replies here. Care Acutely Sep 2012 #5
You can "like" replies jberryhill Sep 2012 #76
I wish I could agree re: obscurity...I think FOX News just found their replacement for Palin Mike Daniels Sep 2012 #26
Best.Answer.Ever! tavalon Sep 2012 #64
"Women, you need to wake up," she urged them. nichomachus Sep 2012 #3
No, she can't. She is Mitt's perfect match. aquart Sep 2012 #23
Clearly we have no idea what we need or want. laundry_queen Sep 2012 #62
Stahp it! This is hard! hamsterjill Sep 2012 #4
There we go. That's the correct answer. closeupready Sep 2012 #38
Horrid creature. nt alsame Sep 2012 #6
She really is a nasty vile person. SammyWinstonJack Sep 2012 #81
The OP made me think of this toon Bozita Sep 2012 #7
Most excellent! hifiguy Sep 2012 #9
Awesome toon - TBF Sep 2012 #13
I like that the guillotine blade is November 6. aquart Sep 2012 #14
woo hoo! nt flamingdem Sep 2012 #19
+1 L0oniX Sep 2012 #55
How lucky we'd be to have him not serve the country, but "run the country" pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #8
that is noteworthy. barbtries Sep 2012 #11
I think you're wrong A HERETIC I AM Sep 2012 #28
well, yeah barbtries Sep 2012 #35
Yup, they are A HERETIC I AM Sep 2012 #40
I'm surprised she didn't say "own the country" in a leveraged buy-out aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #29
Hrm ...would that make it "Bain country"? L0oniX Sep 2012 #56
It's OK. Ann says Mitt would be a "severely" benevolent dictator. JBoy Sep 2012 #42
Ann Lies. Mitt would Cha Sep 2012 #71
a pouty barbtries Sep 2012 #10
Queen Ceresi can go to hell n/t Yavin4 Sep 2012 #12
I wondered when she would show up tavalon Sep 2012 #65
How can she be so thin-skinned? Beaverhausen Sep 2012 #15
And if Mitt gave a damn about her, he never would have put her through it tavalon Sep 2012 #66
Exactly. And supposedly he'd have her health to worry about treestar Sep 2012 #68
Sociopaths don't worry tavalon Sep 2012 #70
Yes, we're all too stupid to realize how lucky we are to have Mitt volunteering to run our sinkingfeeling Sep 2012 #16
All I have to say to Ann Rmoney is geardaddy Sep 2012 #17
LEAVE MITTNEY ALONE!!!! Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2012 #18
*lawl* XemaSab Sep 2012 #53
"Walk a mile in my diamond-encrusted Borgezie stiletto hand-crafted shoes" aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #20
lol, OMG, that's funny. closeupready Sep 2012 #46
Boo effing hoo, Queen Ann. I realize how tiring being so vapid it must be, so catbyte Sep 2012 #21
Why, they once had to SELL SOME STOCK just to get by! Lizzie Poppet Sep 2012 #22
Ann is tired of Mitt's stumping aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #24
The Barbara Bush of the 21st Century... Cooley Hurd Sep 2012 #25
Not sure, but Mitt's gotta be Triumph the Insult Comic Dog KamaAina Sep 2012 #45
I have an idea about how hard it is. I spent the entire russspeakeasy Sep 2012 #27
Tin Ear... Laxman Sep 2012 #30
Leave Mitt Romney alone! Right now! I mean it! tularetom Sep 2012 #31
She really does not help his cause treestar Sep 2012 #32
Run the country? WTF? nichomachus Sep 2012 #33
My god, imagine the hell of being this woman's child Aldo Leopold Sep 2012 #34
The Queen doesn't get it. zellie Sep 2012 #36
Open, public apology to her highness, the magnificant Queen Ann. closeupready Sep 2012 #37
More seriously, her comments sound like, "Be grateful you have a job," closeupready Sep 2012 #39
Cake I say...cake..... whistler162 Sep 2012 #41
Well, she is married to Mitt Incitatus Sep 2012 #43
I think I'll make an indie film called "Being Ann Romney" KamaAina Sep 2012 #44
Get lost Ann - your idiot husband does not support equal pay for women... polichick Sep 2012 #47
"It's our turn now." MariaM83 Sep 2012 #48
She needs to learn where her money comes from. Waiting For Everyman Sep 2012 #49
Probably the one smart thing Mitt Romney has said and i would agree with -- LynneSin Sep 2012 #50
Exactly..."we use ann sparingly so that people don't get tired of her and start complaining." sad sally Sep 2012 #60
I have a feeling he doesn't really like her any more treestar Sep 2012 #67
Barbara Bush and Laura Bush required a truckload of pharmaceuticals and tequila tavalon Sep 2012 #69
When Katrina happened Barbara was not in the White House LynneSin Sep 2012 #74
Sauced,you mean? tavalon Sep 2012 #75
You should only concern your little head, Ann, HockeyMom Sep 2012 #51
She speaks almost entirely direct orders: "Stop it...You need to...Women have to...You'd better" Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #52
Is this a quote from Ann Romney? JDPriestly Sep 2012 #54
Mittens needs his Ann Momney to protect him from us people. graywarrior Sep 2012 #57
Hey Ann ...according to your church regulations you are to be quiet and subserviant... L0oniX Sep 2012 #58
What is that boy showing his sister? jberryhill Sep 2012 #77
her whining reminds me of a line from an old Julie Brown song... Javaman Sep 2012 #59
Ann is hurt when you call her "Queen" bongbong Sep 2012 #61
We are just mstinamotorcity2 Sep 2012 #63
As scary lawyerguy eloquently tweets.. Cha Sep 2012 #72
hey what's with this YOU people! napkinz Sep 2012 #73
She really should shut up. Insulting remarks won't help SammyWinstonJack Sep 2012 #78
Well, I didn't realize that cutting taxes for the wealthy would help Latinos, women, and all those Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #79
A voice and tone like a washing machine being dragged along a driveway paved with flint hatrack Sep 2012 #80
The feelings are mutual. GoCubsGo Sep 2012 #82
You people....... Loryn Sep 2012 #83

Mike Daniels

(5,842 posts)
26. I wish I could agree re: obscurity...I think FOX News just found their replacement for Palin
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:45 PM
Sep 2012

If Mitt loses I wouldn't be surprised if Roger offered a contract to Ann.

She would serve basically the same function...to serve as an aggrieved white woman who was denied her chance at Washington power by Obama.

FOX would gladly hand her a four year contract so she could be perpetually petulant and whine about how unfair it is that she's not in the White House all because of the unwashed plebes that didn't vote for Mitt (or McCain in Palin's case). That was basically Palin's schtick since FOX sure didn't hire her for her insightful and detailed political analysis.

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
3. "Women, you need to wake up," she urged them.
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:00 PM
Sep 2012

OMG -- the arrogance. Can she make any statement that doesn't come across as incredibly fucking arrogant and privileged?

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
62. Clearly we have no idea what we need or want.
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 06:24 PM
Sep 2012

We simply don't know that Mitt is doing this for our own good. Us women are just too stupid.

hamsterjill

(15,224 posts)
4. Stahp it! This is hard!
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:03 PM
Sep 2012

"You want to try it? Get in the ring"

No, Annie. You wanted to try it and you got in the ring. Now that you just can't handle it, is that my fault? I don't think so.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
8. How lucky we'd be to have him not serve the country, but "run the country"
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:09 PM
Sep 2012

The way she puts it makes the prospect even scarier.

barbtries

(28,811 posts)
11. that is noteworthy.
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:17 PM
Sep 2012

when i read it i just silently added "into the ground" but on second thought you are absolutely right. the romneys have no concept of serving.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,376 posts)
28. I think you're wrong
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:46 PM
Sep 2012

They DO have a concept of serving and they don't like it, unless it is performed by someone else FOR them.

What they don't understand is SERVICE, particularly to the country, something the President and Mrs. Obama do completely.

Remember, Ann thinks we are being done a huge favor by her husband running, so we need to just shut up and accept it.

barbtries

(28,811 posts)
35. well, yeah
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 01:11 PM
Sep 2012

i almost elaborated when i posted. i meant service to others of course. bottom line they are really terrible people.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,376 posts)
40. Yup, they are
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 01:24 PM
Sep 2012

I have gotten to know quite a few fairly rich people over the years, including one that could buy the Romneys with pocket
Change. Damned few I've met are as arrogant and out of touch as they are.

Beaverhausen

(24,472 posts)
15. How can she be so thin-skinned?
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:20 PM
Sep 2012

Reminds me of Palin.

I actually feel bad because I assume the stress (real or perceived) isn't helping her MS.

tavalon

(27,985 posts)
66. And if Mitt gave a damn about her, he never would have put her through it
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 05:42 AM
Sep 2012

But, as he said, he has no respect for the 47% of Americans who pay no income tax. Ann doesn't work. She doesn't pay income taxes, so, she gets no respect from Mitt. Not that I have any great love for that shrew, either.

sinkingfeeling

(51,473 posts)
16. Yes, we're all too stupid to realize how lucky we are to have Mitt volunteering to run our
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:20 PM
Sep 2012

lives.

Ann Romney is the definition of hubris.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
20. "Walk a mile in my diamond-encrusted Borgezie stiletto hand-crafted shoes"
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:29 PM
Sep 2012

"Actually on second thought have your chauffeur drive you. You do have a chauffeur, yes?"

catbyte

(34,447 posts)
21. Boo effing hoo, Queen Ann. I realize how tiring being so vapid it must be, so
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:32 PM
Sep 2012

why don't you toddle on back to your La Jolla McMansion and take your Cadillacs for a ride in their new elevator?





 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
25. The Barbara Bush of the 21st Century...
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:44 PM
Sep 2012

Congrats Ann! BTW this pic of her reminds me of an infamous Conan O'Brien show character:

Guess which character?

russspeakeasy

(6,539 posts)
27. I have an idea about how hard it is. I spent the entire
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:45 PM
Sep 2012

morning slapping my butlers and and other low lifes around. This afternoon, I plan to drive through middle class neighborhoods and laugh at the wage slaves.

Laxman

(2,419 posts)
30. Tin Ear...
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:52 PM
Sep 2012
http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=&sa=X&ei=h5pcUIzKJciJ0QHvkoCQAw&ved=0CAoQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNHL2C5KXo4ezBNiDIdAzKUZMyyIug

" The Benz was in the shop so I had to drive the Escalade down to the club this afternoon. I simply hate that. The other drivers simply won't get out of my way. I don't know how much longer I can put up with this dreadfulness."

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
31. Leave Mitt Romney alone! Right now! I mean it!
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:52 PM
Sep 2012


You're lucky he's even running to be president of you bastards.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
32. She really does not help his cause
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:59 PM
Sep 2012

She harms it. He was right that she should be used sparingly, but maybe wrong she should be used at all.

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
33. Run the country? WTF?
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 01:06 PM
Sep 2012
it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.


Not serve the country. Not serve the people. Not work with Congress. "Run the country." Sounds a little dictatorial to me.
 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
37. Open, public apology to her highness, the magnificant Queen Ann.
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 01:16 PM
Sep 2012

I am VERY sorry, your ladyship, and beg forgiveness.

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
39. More seriously, her comments sound like, "Be grateful you have a job,"
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 01:23 PM
Sep 2012

or in essence, that's what it sounds like - not as an observation of fact, but as a means of squelching complaints - and not just frivolous ones; ALL complaints, regardless of merit.

I would imagine that she's just about one of the worst people to work for, and I don't think I'd consider it for a single second. Well, I guess if I needed it bad enough, but I would not enjoy it. And she'd probably like it that way, after all, The Help isn't supposed to enjoy their work; in Ann's world, if your employees like their jobs, you're doing something wrong.

polichick

(37,152 posts)
47. Get lost Ann - your idiot husband does not support equal pay for women...
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 01:54 PM
Sep 2012

...and doesn't believe women should have control over their own bodies.

P.S. You're an idiot for pushing that idiot on us.

Waiting For Everyman

(9,385 posts)
49. She needs to learn where her money comes from.
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 02:08 PM
Sep 2012

And then she can tell us all about how compassionate that is. How compassionate and caring is that Chinese sweatshop, Global-Tech, the one that employs young WOMEN under gruesome conditions? And tearing apart viable companies here, devastating families and communities so the Mittster can put their livlihoods in his fat wallet somewhere in the islands to avoid paying TAXES on it? He's nothing but a cheesy smash-and-grab gangsta in a niced-up suit.

What a nerve!

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
50. Probably the one smart thing Mitt Romney has said and i would agree with --
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 02:57 PM
Sep 2012

He really should use Ann sparingly because I think we're all getting fed up with her Marie Antoinette spoiled rotton persona.

She is not someone who I would want to meet with foreign dignitaries because I suspect she would look down upon them and treat them with glib. I know I've never been a fan of some former GOP first ladies but I never saw Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush or Laura Bush treat people with such disdain (outside of the comment that Barbara made to Katrina survivors in the Houston Astrodome but then she wasn't a first lady anymore).

She comes across to me as a spoiled rotton woman who was probably raised that way and thinks the whole world should be handed to her on a silver platter. I'm guessing Anne doesn't have too many friends outside of her own immediate family.

sad sally

(2,627 posts)
60. Exactly..."we use ann sparingly so that people don't get tired of her and start complaining."
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 05:05 PM
Sep 2012

Mrs. Mitt-Ann has been used up - set her free.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
67. I have a feeling he doesn't really like her any more
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 05:48 AM
Sep 2012

Look at his face in the OP photo. And that comment.

tavalon

(27,985 posts)
69. Barbara Bush and Laura Bush required a truckload of pharmaceuticals and tequila
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 05:50 AM
Sep 2012

to not look down on everyone with disdain, and even so, Barbara screwed it up plenty of times. Try to remember back to Hurricane Katrina and what she said after touring a Houston shelter. And speaking of Barbara, she didn't even give up the booze while carrying GWB - scary thought, but he might not have been a moron if he didn't have fetal alcohol syndrome.

Ann sucks, but those two ladies are not two to contrast with her. They are of the same exact ilk.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
74. When Katrina happened Barbara was not in the White House
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 07:21 AM
Sep 2012

But I do recall when she was she was always polite and a bit grandmotherly.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
51. You should only concern your little head, Ann,
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 03:05 PM
Sep 2012

with the color scheme of your next dinner party. THIS woman has seen the likes of you, and your husband.

A President Campaign, AND being a First Lady, is too much trouble for your pea brain.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
52. She speaks almost entirely direct orders: "Stop it...You need to...Women have to...You'd better"
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 03:10 PM
Sep 2012

Her servants obey, but you people are bad help.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
54. Is this a quote from Ann Romney?
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 03:58 PM
Sep 2012

"poor guy, he took no pay when he did the Olympics for three years and no pay when he was governor for four years."

Because if it is, that might be whey Reid said Romney paid no income taxes. Those might be the years in which Romney paid no income taxes, perhaps no federal taxes at all.

Just a guess. Anyone actually know?

Is that really a quote from her?

 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
58. Hey Ann ...according to your church regulations you are to be quiet and subserviant...
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 04:14 PM
Sep 2012

kinda like a Stepford wife. Maybe you should be reported to church HQ and be subjected to an interrogation.

Javaman

(62,534 posts)
59. her whining reminds me of a line from an old Julie Brown song...
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 04:18 PM
Sep 2012

"the home coming queen has got a gun"

-Stop it Debbie, you're embarrassing me!

 

bongbong

(5,436 posts)
61. Ann is hurt when you call her "Queen"
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 05:28 PM
Sep 2012

She insists on being called "Empress". Queen is, well, you know, just so COMMON.

Cha

(297,641 posts)
72. As scary lawyerguy eloquently tweets..
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 06:08 AM
Sep 2012
scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy

I'd feel sympathy for Ann Romney if her hubby wasn't a venal, arrogant jerk & she didn't treat us like the hired help. #lastword

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
79. Well, I didn't realize that cutting taxes for the wealthy would help Latinos, women, and all those
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 10:24 AM
Sep 2012

other people! What was I thinking? Apparently, I wasn't, according to Ann Romney.

I've now been Romney-educated!

hatrack

(59,592 posts)
80. A voice and tone like a washing machine being dragged along a driveway paved with flint
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 10:25 AM
Sep 2012

Really, really working to not say what I'm thinking . . .

GoCubsGo

(32,088 posts)
82. The feelings are mutual.
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 10:33 AM
Sep 2012

I'm pretty damn sick of her and her whole creepy family, especially her and her slimy asshole of a husband.

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