Ann Romney takes a turn with the Etch A Sketch

by Kaili Joy Gray

Talk about a lesson in overplaying your hand.

Ever since someone whose name you'd never heard until last week pointed out that Ann Romney's never worked—something, by the way, that Ann has said about herself—the Romney campaign has tried like H-E-double-hockey-sticks to use this non-issue to score lady points. It's not the Republicans who are waging war on women; oh no, it's President Obama and the Democrats, with Ann Romney as the most aggrieved victim.

And it doesn't help that when yukking it up privately with their richest donors, Ann explained just how "offended" she really was:


It's hard to portray yourself as the sympathetic victim in all this when you're secretly loving it because you think it gives you an opening to exploit some manufactured outrage.
So Ann did what her husband does: she shook the Etch A Sketch and offered up a new spin in an interview with Diane Sawyer:


Sure, Ann. Okay. When you said in private that you love that someone attacked you for being a mother, what you meant was that you love we're having a national conversation about deficit spending? And thank god someone said something about you because women wouldn't be discussing the economy otherwise?

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