... But if you’re going to pervert someone else’s words into a fake rallying cry, it pays to make sure that you, yourself, have never made an even more explicit statement to the same effect. On this morning’s Up with Chris Hayes, host Chris Hayes revealed that Romney had done just that, digging up a clip from January in which Romney said this: (emphasis mine)

While I was governor, 85% of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state, had no work requirement. And I wanted to increase the work requirement. I said, for instance, that even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, well that’s heartless. And I said no, no, I’m willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It will cost the state more, providing that day care. But I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.

Whether you agree with the policy or not, what he is clearly saying there is that stay-at-home parenting is not work. If it was, then a stay-at-home parent would already have the “dignity of work.”

Now, if Romney had meant to say “work outside the home,” well, he should have said that.

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