Bet Ann had help raising her 5 boys, most stay at home moms do not.  They cook,  they clean, they do the grocery shopping and stay up to all hours helping with school projects, so you can’t say Ms Romney is the typical SATHM.  Hilary was right Ms omney probably has no idea what the REAL SATHM goes through every day.

 You don’t know that though. Unless you have been following her around, peeking in her windows for the past 40 years. Have you? I don’t know because I don’t know you. See how that works.

I think Dems attacking stay at home moms is a winning strategy.  Keep in up, please!

Michelle Obama CHOSE to work when with just Barry’s salary put them WAY into the 1%.  I respect  Ann more for choosing to stay home than someone who wanted even more money and left her kids to make it. 

Ann raised her boys on $250million a year. That’s hugely different from most stay-at-home mothers. Rosen wasn’t attacking stay-at-home moms, but one extremely wealthy stay-at-home mom. 

yes, the WAY she said
it was wrong. But let’s face it, Rosen wasn’t lying. Ann has never had to worry about
putting food on the table, or if she or her kids would be able to seek medical
attention if they were sick, or what to do with them so that she could go to
work and provide for them. Her husband took care of all that. In addition, she
had the best healthcare possible because she was a GOVERNOR’S WIFE! The fact
that she has been stricken with 2 diseases does not make her an expert on
“working women”. That is what Rosen was saying, although she didn’t
state it well.

where did you get that lie? They worked everyday to put food on the table. In fact, Michelle was OVER Barack when they met. Neither of them were making hundrnds of thousands, much less millions. In fact, they were UNABLE TO PAY OFF THEIR MASSIVE STUDENT LOANS  until Narack’s 2nd book came out (when he was running for president). It was not a choice for Michelle to work. Politics was their side job.

You are right.  We don’t know that.  We should stop criticizing Ann.  She did struggle as a stay at home mom like the rest of us.  Just because in 2010 they made $3.3 million in interest income, $4.9 million in dividends, $12.6 million in capital gains, doesn’t mean she had it any easier than the rest of us middle-income moms!   Geez!  Until we get to peek inside their mansions, see all the butlers, maids, chauffeurs, cooks, nannies that they employee- then we can judge!  Until then, we should give her the benefit of the doubt and think she understands us stay at home moms and the everyday struggles we all face! 

Yes she chose to stay home. I’m sorry – hanging out with the kids doing stuff is not work. I’ll consider her a “stay at home mom” when she cleans, cooks, helps with homeword and does all the family laundry herself. I have a strong feeling that that was NEVER the case for Ann Romney and I bet she never missed a day of riding or shopping so she could make sure her sons got to whatever after school activities they were participating in…. Aside from managing the help – the cooks, the drivers, the maids – I’m doubt she’s ever struggled with anything. She has had medical issues -but she never had to decide between getting her prescription filled or buying groceries, she never had to worry about hospital bills or finding a doctor who would accept her insurance or paying for prescriptions her insurance didn’t cover. Hiding how many dressage horses you own from your husband is not struggling. Deciding which cadillac to drive to the salon is not struggling. Hiring the best tutors to help your son with his math homework is not struggling. Rosen may not have framed her argument in the most articulate way, but she WAS right.

I am sure Ann Romney speaks to lots of women on the campaign trail who are suffering in this economy. So why shouldn’t Mitt listen to that feedback from women, via his wife?
 
Michelle Obama is reaching out and listening to the concerns of military families. Does that fact she never had a husband in the military, disqualify her to speak out on their issues?
 
Like Ann Romney, Michelle Obama is a rich stay at home mom who is very concerned about the health of our nation’s children and providing good healthy food for them. This isn’t a problem she has for her family; does that disqualify her to speak on the issue?
 
Using Rosen’s unintellectual logic, no politician’s wife would qualify to speak out on an issues in our nation, unless they actually experienced them  first hand.

 I don’t think it is at all helpful to speculate what Romney did or did not do for her family.

Regardless of her intent, Rosen’s comment characterize stay-at-home-mom-ing as “not work”, which is a detriment to the rest of her message. Apart from that one sentence, her message is much stronger: the Romneys are an extremely privileged family and their appeals to knowing what the average family needs and wants rings completely hollow.

It also plays entirely too much into the republican rhetoric and m.o. to in anyway make the conversation about how good of a person Ann Romney is.

There is certainly nothing wrong with being a “stay at home” mom.  And it definitely can be a full-time job raising kids.

But it is disingenuous to suggest that the viewpoints of an extremely wealthy homemaker represent the needs and concerns of women — whether married or single, with or without children — who need to earn a living in the workplace to make ends meet.

Romney to female voters: “The GOP has your back.”

Meanwhile, the governor of Wisconsin repeals “equal pay for women” legislation, conservative pundits and politicians claim that men deserve higher pay for equal work because “men need the added income more than do women” or because “men know more stuff than do women”, Congressional and state Republican legislators strive to make affordable access to contraception and breast cancer screenings more difficult with their assault on PP and health insurance coverage, and GOP-controlled state legislatures mandate that women seeking an abortion provide social conservative politicians with “a womb with a view”.  So much for the tea party/conservative movement’s mantra:  “small, non-intrusive government”.

The 2012 GOP campaign slogan: A chicken in every pot and a spy-cam in every uterus.

American women to Republican Party: “WE will decide whether or not our rights are being assaulted by conservative policies, thank you very much.”

No offense, but you’re making an invalid argument. Did she say it’s easy to raise kids? No. When she said ‘work a day in her life’ she was obviously talking about employment and the fact that most women need to be employed to get by. It’s disingenuous to make the assertion that she’s ‘slamming’ stay at home moms when she did nothing of the sort. 

Most women need to work to get by? Is that sort of like a BO saying that at $416,000, he understood and that is why Michelle had to work? If she didn’t work, they would have had to struggle to get by on his measly little $100,000 income.

Yes, women on their own have to work unless they are getting alimony. However, most two income homes it isn’t a matter of working to survive, it is working to have a better wardrobe, a newer car, a bigger screen tv, a bigger, fancier house. While the Romney’s didn’t need Ann to work to live well, there are many women not choosing to work to be home with their children instead of dumping them off with underqualified, undermanned daycare so they can just live ‘better.’
My Dad worked 2 to 3 jobs until he finally got into a better job so my Mother didn’t have to work. We lived in a one room house for while and I guarantee we were just as happy, if not happier, and better grounded as a family as the ones in the neighborhood with 2 cars and working Moms. 
I applaud all of the women that choose family over increasing their material standings. I sympathize with all of the women that are trying to make it on their own, or the minority of them in which two incomes are required to survive. 
And, I urge the others to reevaluate whether they are trading their children’s nurture and family life just for more material things and status in life. 

Again, listen to what she actually said, not what people inferred from it. At no point did she put down stay at home moms. She WAS one at one time apparently, so why would she do that anyways? She was making the point that Ann Romney can’t relate to the woman who needs to go out and work to support a family. And she doesn’t, that’s plain and simple. I’m not saying that makes her a bad person or anything of the sort. But because of her financial means, she truly doesn’t know what it’s like to struggle financially. Note I’m saying financially because the next argument from people who have taken exception from the quotes is that Ann Romney knows what struggling is in other areas of life. Yes, but not FINANCIALLY. Which is what Rosen said. People need to pay more attention to what is actually said as opposed to interpreting it in different ways.