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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:06 AM Mar 2012

Mrs. Romney: 'I love it that women are upset'

Laaadies! Mitt Romney has a message for you. Let's let Ann Romney distill it down to its most condescending core for a moment, shall we?

“I love it that women are upset, too, that women are talking about the economy, I love that,” Mrs. Romney said at a pancake breakfast here. “Women are talking about jobs; women are talking about deficit spending. Thank you, women.”


Wow. I mean, just wow. Women are really amazing, you know? Because who would have thought that they would bother to worry their little minds with the economy? It's not like women live and work and (try to) support their families in this lousy economy and have reason to be concerned about what's going on with it, so it must be something special to thank "women" for if they're thinking about the economy at all. Amirite?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/19/1075700/-Mitt-and-Ann-Romney-are-super-excited-that-women-care-about-the-economy
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Mrs. Romney: 'I love it that women are upset' (Original Post) kpete Mar 2012 OP
What a coinkydink that the two most clueless people in the world tularetom Mar 2012 #1
<snort> Matariki Mar 2012 #22
must be a threesome then because Whisp Mar 2012 #32
A plan to distract attention away from "War on Women" social issues pathansen Mar 2012 #46
Mitt is representative of the Republican Neanderthal Committee. boston bean Mar 2012 #2
No one in that family knows how to pander correctly siligut Mar 2012 #3
Another Cow of Bashan moos. freshwest Mar 2012 #4
haaaaa, gooood one! BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #35
Glad you liked it. freshwest Mar 2012 #40
I had a feeling she would be worse that her husband... Raven Mar 2012 #5
There is something beyond weird about that "horse in every port" remark... CTyankee Mar 2012 #29
As long as women don't try to talk about .. SamG Mar 2012 #6
I love how women are upset about their reproductive freedom being eliminated too! EOTE Mar 2012 #7
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens, BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #36
'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there? freshwest Mar 2012 #37
sad to say... BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #42
You put it in ASL. I'm impressed. Both the plays I cited were about very strong women. freshwest Mar 2012 #44
What do the other Mrs. Romneys think about it? Ezlivin Mar 2012 #8
The wife of a jerk is a jerk. nt Javaman Mar 2012 #9
Aha! So all this was really Turbineguy Mar 2012 #10
"The peasants are revolting!" sarge43 Mar 2012 #11
Is she talking about her servant women or those of us who don't work for her? Happyhippychick Mar 2012 #12
Oh gee willikers. Harriet of Ozzie and Harriet would be very empowered by all this hullabulu. MidwestTransplant Mar 2012 #13
She sounds like someone who is speaking to us from the 1950s. Women have been in the jobs jwirr Mar 2012 #14
deflecting. barbtries Mar 2012 #15
+1 arthritisR_US Mar 2012 #30
As if she knows anything about it. Mariana Mar 2012 #16
Why thank you Ann. Texasgal Mar 2012 #17
Where do the Romneys have houses? Downwinder Mar 2012 #18
How very condescending. Quantess Mar 2012 #19
"No matter how many times I pat them on the head our numbers go down!" JHB Mar 2012 #20
Well, I heard otherwise sane women say Sarah Palin was good for women... Phentex Mar 2012 #21
I know one woman who's going to be very upset Wednesday morning November 7, 2012. edbermac Mar 2012 #23
While I'm sure that women are CONCERNED about the things she's talking about TlalocW Mar 2012 #24
Utterly. Frickin'. Tone. Deaf. kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #25
She has all of Mitt's gifts denem Mar 2012 #26
Hey, here's a slogan for the Republican Party: Shampoobra Mar 2012 #27
The woman is heinous KamaAina Mar 2012 #28
She WISHES that women were talking more about the economy and jobs than tledford Mar 2012 #31
Economy is women's work historically Retrograde Mar 2012 #33
Wow, Mitt's quote is just as bad: MadrasT Mar 2012 #34
Wow, mittney. Imagine that. calimary Mar 2012 #38
What a sheltered, privileged moran. Chorophyll Mar 2012 #39
Seriously - could they be anymore fucking clueless???? Initech Mar 2012 #41
do you love it that women feel the GOP hates them? WI_DEM Mar 2012 #43
Seriously are people required to undergo a lobotomy before joining the GOP? Ganja Ninja Mar 2012 #45

pathansen

(1,039 posts)
46. A plan to distract attention away from "War on Women" social issues
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 11:03 AM
Mar 2012

* Romney's support of Blunt Amendment - immoral to use birth control
* Romney wanting to get rid of Planned Parenthood - More cancer & other health problems
* Rush Limbaugh's anti woman remarks - Instead of disagreeing, Romneys only response was "That's not the language I would have used."
* Romney's support of the Personhood Amendment- an embryo is a person with rights just like everyone else.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
3. No one in that family knows how to pander correctly
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:11 AM
Mar 2012

They just can't get over feeling so superior to everyone.

Raven

(13,891 posts)
5. I had a feeling she would be worse that her husband...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:14 AM
Mar 2012

When she blew an opportunity to talk serioulsy about MS and instead talked about a horse in every port, I knew, this is an incredibly shallow woman. So we have Mr. & Mrs. Vacant.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
29. There is something beyond weird about that "horse in every port" remark...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:32 PM
Mar 2012

I'm not entirely sure I even understand it...

 

SamG

(535 posts)
6. As long as women don't try to talk about ..
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:16 AM
Mar 2012

birth control, because only MEN in Congress can decide what's best for women on THAT issue!

<sarcasm>

EOTE

(13,409 posts)
7. I love how women are upset about their reproductive freedom being eliminated too!
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:17 AM
Mar 2012

Of course, my husband is just going to make that worse, I just really like to see women upset. Not the women in my life, mind you, but all the other ones. The hoi polloi, or "Great Unwashed" if you will.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
37. 'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 07:04 PM
Mar 2012
As You Like It. My favorite play, long loved and learned by heart. Almost as much as I loved Much Ado About Nothing.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
42. sad to say...
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 10:10 AM
Mar 2012

I never studied Shakespeare. Now, it's on my mile long list of things to do. If I didn't spend so much time online........


(I once did interpret Two Men of Verona, so of course I had to read it, and work out a visually pleasing translation into ASL. I thought --and general consensus agreed-- I did a pretty good job. )

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
44. You put it in ASL. I'm impressed. Both the plays I cited were about very strong women.
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 10:21 AM
Mar 2012

For me, Shakespeare was not a study, I had a natural affinity for the language as it was used then. The historical and tragic plays would have been work. The plays that were called comedies just flowed, so it was never work, but pleasure. My husband and I used to seek out live productions as he enjoyed it also. It was always a plan of mine to visit the outdoor productions in Ashford, OR, but I only saw them in other cities.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
11. "The peasants are revolting!"
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:39 AM
Mar 2012

"They've always been; now they're rebelling."

Psst Annie, some of us wimins have worked for a living and never owned more than one beater at a time. Condescension isn't attractive.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
14. She sounds like someone who is speaking to us from the 1950s. Women have been in the jobs
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:03 PM
Mar 2012

market for a long time and she is just now realizing that we are concerned about economic factors? Even in the 50s women understood the need for a good economy.

barbtries

(28,794 posts)
15. deflecting.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:03 PM
Mar 2012

women are talking about abortion rights, birth control, the apparent intent of the republicans to force them back into the dark ages. she didn't mention that apparently.

Mariana

(14,857 posts)
16. As if she knows anything about it.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:13 PM
Mar 2012

This is the dingbat who said during an interview that "I don't even consider myself wealthy."

Texasgal

(17,045 posts)
17. Why thank you Ann.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:17 PM
Mar 2012

I am so glad that I'm up to your standards talking about the economy and the deficit spending! *whew* And all this time I thought we just giggled over coffee and exchanged banana bread recipes!

JHB

(37,160 posts)
20. "No matter how many times I pat them on the head our numbers go down!"
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:24 PM
Mar 2012

..."I don't understand! Everyone likes being patted on the head! I liked it. Mitt likes it. Even Seamus liked it. In fact, he loved it! What's wrong with these people?"

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
21. Well, I heard otherwise sane women say Sarah Palin was good for women...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:28 PM
Mar 2012

just because she was a woman, and "oh, isn't it great to see a woman running for VP?"

They didn't care what she said or what she stood for only that she was female. It was mind-boggling.

After a few months of the campaign, their tunes changed drastically!

edbermac

(15,939 posts)
23. I know one woman who's going to be very upset Wednesday morning November 7, 2012.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:33 PM
Mar 2012

And it ain't going to be her.

TlalocW

(15,382 posts)
24. While I'm sure that women are CONCERNED about the things she's talking about
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:21 PM
Mar 2012

I think she's deliberately fooling herself as to what they're UPSET about, and it ain't gonna help her hubby.

TlalocW

 

denem

(11,045 posts)
26. She has all of Mitt's gifts
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:25 PM
Mar 2012

and perhaps more. I remember Ann announced there would be no more debates. She was sick of them. Bravo.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
28. The woman is heinous
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:29 PM
Mar 2012

after Willard muscled Jane "None Too" Swift out of the governor's race in Mass., she got Swift's running mate, Patrick Guerriero, dumped from the ticket because he is gay (he went on to be the head of Log Cabin Republicans), even though Dog on Car himself was cool with it. She apparently feared that Mittenswould catch Teh Ghey and be damaged goods in terms of a presidential run.

tledford

(917 posts)
31. She WISHES that women were talking more about the economy and jobs than
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:36 PM
Mar 2012

the assault on their health and bodies and the general impetus to attempt to put them back into the 16th century.

Retrograde

(10,136 posts)
33. Economy is women's work historically
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:42 PM
Mar 2012

The word derives from the Greek term for management of a household, something that historically has been women's domain throughout the world - those nagging little details about feeding, clothing and housing a family, however you want to define family. And while women may not be predominant on trading floors or in executive offices they still have to worry about where the resources for the basics of life are coming from, so yeah, Ann, they're thinking about the economy, usually in more personal terms than you do, such as "How will I feed the children if my or my spouse's job moves overseas, or our pay is frozen to give the CEO a bigger bonus?".

MadrasT

(7,237 posts)
34. Wow, Mitt's quote is just as bad:
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 03:29 PM
Mar 2012
“You’ve got moms that are driving their kids to school and practice after school and other appointments and wonder how they can afford putting gasoline in the car, at the same time putting food on the table night after night.”


(from the same article)

Chorophyll

(5,179 posts)
39. What a sheltered, privileged moran.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 07:14 PM
Mar 2012

Of COURSE none of the women she socializes with talk about these things; they didn't have to.

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
45. Seriously are people required to undergo a lobotomy before joining the GOP?
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 10:36 AM
Mar 2012

Newt wants to put the debates up on pay per view.

Santorum thinks Puerto Rico needs to adopt English as the official language as a precondition for Statehood.

Mitt Etch-a-sketch Romney is clueless as to why woman are angry.

And this is just one week and it's only Thursday morning. And it's been this way for months, gaffs on top of gaffs on top of gaffs.

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