2016 Postmortem

yellowcanine

(35,701 posts) Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:04 AM Oct 2012

Line which will hurt Mitt the most imo....."Women need flexible schedules so they can make dinner."

Goes to being out of touch and plays into his weakness with women. Independent women will hate this.

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Line which will hurt Mitt the most imo....."Women need flexible schedules so they can make dinner." (Original Post) yellowcanine Oct 2012 OP

Did he really fucking say that!? jimlup Oct 2012 #1

From the NPR Transcript NorCen_CT Oct 2012 #5

because only women can make dinner for the kiddies Skittles Oct 2012 #10

Well after this election done he can cook dinner every night for Ann LynneSin Oct 2012 #2

I don't know... Iceberg Louie Oct 2012 #3

I'd agree, but it was too rambling for a sound bite.... JenniferJuniper Oct 2012 #6

Honey, you don't need equal pay for equal work, you JenniferJuniper Oct 2012 #4

Good one! FailureToCommunicate Oct 2012 #15

That was my favorite too pscot Oct 2012 #7

Of course Romney doesn't know what the average woman does or doesn't do. lumpy Oct 2012 #8

Slow cookers. Its what's for dinner. JenniferJuniper Oct 2012 #9

PLEASE tell me there was a LOUD chorus of boooooooos when he said this. niyad Oct 2012 #11

Binders full of women & flexible schedules so we can cook & clean too! Native Oct 2012 #12

Do you suppose Iceberg Louie Oct 2012 #13

Ouch. TomCADem Oct 2012 #14

jimlup

(7,968 posts)

1. Did he really fucking say that!?

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:07 AM

Oct 2012

What an ass clown!

NorCen_CT

(176 posts)

5. From the NPR Transcript

Reply to jimlup (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:08 AM

Oct 2012

Now, one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort, but number two, because I recognized that if you're going to have women in the workforce, that sometimes they need to be more flexible. My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school. She said, I can't be here until 7:00 or 8:00 at night. I need to be able to get home at 5:00 so I can be there for — making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school. So we said, fine, let's have a flexible schedule so you can have hours that work for you.

Skittles

(153,199 posts)

10. because only women can make dinner for the kiddies

Reply to NorCen_CT (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:15 AM

Oct 2012

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)

2. Well after this election done he can cook dinner every night for Ann

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:07 AM

Oct 2012

What a douchebag

Iceberg Louie

(190 posts)

3. I don't know...

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:08 AM

Oct 2012

...his pathetic attempt at turning a question about gun control into a diatribe against single-parent (and by proxy, same-sex two-parent) families isn't going to help much either on that same front...

JenniferJuniper

(4,515 posts)

6. I'd agree, but it was too rambling for a sound bite....

Reply to Iceberg Louie (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:09 AM

Oct 2012

the dinner thing is another story.

JenniferJuniper

(4,515 posts)

4. Honey, you don't need equal pay for equal work, you

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:08 AM

Oct 2012

just need to get home early and tend to your family like wimmenfolk are supposed to be doing anyway.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,023 posts)

15. Good one!

Reply to JenniferJuniper (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:30 AM

Oct 2012

His comments are gonna come back to haunt him.

pscot

(21,024 posts)

7. That was my favorite too

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:09 AM

Oct 2012

rMoney just has that common touch. You can't fake that.

lumpy

(13,704 posts)

8. Of course Romney doesn't know what the average woman does or doesn't do.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:11 AM

Oct 2012

Many husbands share in housekeeping tasks, Mr. Romney, this isn't 1920. Bet Mrs. Romney doesn't do dinner and you can be damned sure Mr.R doesn't lift a skillet.

JenniferJuniper

(4,515 posts)

9. Slow cookers. Its what's for dinner.

Reply to lumpy (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:14 AM

Oct 2012

niyad

(113,582 posts)

11. PLEASE tell me there was a LOUD chorus of boooooooos when he said this.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:21 AM

Oct 2012

Native

(5,943 posts)

12. Binders full of women & flexible schedules so we can cook & clean too!

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:22 AM

Oct 2012

This is his policy for addressing pay inequality? That was so incredibly bizarre.

Iceberg Louie

(190 posts)

13. Do you suppose

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:24 AM

Oct 2012

Robme's advisors/handlers were warning him that he was losing the base and he needs to throw them some bones?

Or is he just that inept that he couldn't perceive the inevitable damage that kind of mindset does to a 21st century politician's image?

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)

14. Ouch.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:26 AM

Oct 2012

Amazingly clueless.

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