1. Mediaite
  2. Gossip Cop
  3. Geekosystem
  4. Styleite
  5. SportsGrid
  6. The Mary Sue
  7. The Jane Dough
  8. The Braiser

Politics

What Did Ann Romney Mean By ‘I Love That Some Women Don’t Have A Choice But To Work’?


Earlier today, potential first lady Ann Romney made her first speech since Rosengate exploded in the media a few weeks ago and acknowledged the erroneous claim that she has “actually never worked a day in her life” by saying she commends the ladies who don’t have the luxury of being stay-at-home-moms as she did:

“My hats off to the men in this room too that are raising kids — I love that, and I love the fact that there are also women out there that don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids,” Ann said in Connecticut. “Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.”

This feels like an answer to some of the Hilary Rosen defenders who said that the political consultant made a valid point about Ann being out of touch with most women in the United States, particularly those who are unmarried or could not afford to stay at home. I think I have an idea of what Ann meant — That she takes her hat off to the hustling women who work and take care of the kids, but her follow-up line about valuing certain types of people could be perceived as condescending.

Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers noted the peculiarity of Ann’s statement with the response tweet, “@AnnDRomney ‘loves’ that there are women who have no choice but to work and raise kids? http://bit.ly/I6MOTt A little Marie Antionettish.”

Alex Seitz-Wald of ThinkProgress harped on the unusual delivery as well, arguing, “It seems Romney was trying to express empathy for women who don’t have the option to stay at home, as she did. But the comment that she ‘love[s]‘ that some women ‘don’t have a choice’ and must work is unusual, to say the least, and could lead to a new round of charges that the Romneys don’t understand average Americans, given their enormous wealth.”

It seems as though the belief that the Romneys know nothing about Average Joe and Jane life isn’t going to be disproved before the election, and Ann’s weird instance of what seemed to be word vomit won’t change that without some clarification.

TAGS: |

  • Anonymous

    I see this ongoing ridiculous word-parsing in an attempt to delegitimize the Romneys as “like us” (whoever the proverbial “us” are) continues here unabated.  Gotta “love” that the Liberal talking points have made it to thejanedough.  

    Honestly; fair-minded, reasonable people would recognize that without creating yet another faux issue.
    This is pathetic, and I “love” pointing that out to you and everyone else engaging in this absurd exercise.  All she’s saying is that it’s not a cookie-cutter world and that everyone’s circumstances are different, and that we should value whatever choices are made.

  • Anonymous

    How can anyone who has the money to trade in purebred competition horses, his and her competition horses, that’s more than one horse per spouse, possibly understand what it’s like to have to make tough financial decisions?

  • deferner

    well i’m votin for Obama

  • Bob

    She obviously caught foot-in-mouth disease from her hubby.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

     rather have foot in mouth then dog in  mouth

    we must all pray for BO.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_q9ns8LVVs&feature=related

  • Sonja Wilkes

    This feels like an answer to some of the Hilary Rosen defenders who said that the political consultant made a valid

    http://disabilityinsuranceillinois.com/
     

  • Freddiejaner

    This woman has hobo shit for brains.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Debbie-Knight/100002243945669 Debbie Knight

     You can certainly characterize it as word parsing, but I don’t. This is a protracted job interview we’re having right now and everything about a candidate is worth taking a look at.

    You are translating for us what you think Ann Romney meant. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could understand what she meant without a translation? But in this case we do need clarification because what she said seems outrageous. It’s along the same lines as her husband saying he likes to fire people. I know that was in the context of people who did a poor job for him, but still. To “like” what is universally considered an unpleasant experience, is odd. As odd as what Ann Romney said about loving the fact that some women with small children have no choice but to work outside the home.

    When too much translation is needed that means too much confusion resulted initially. I have to wonder about that.

    You make a snarky comment at the end of your post. Do you have an example of a prominent politician saying something controversial that wasn’t analyzed and gossiped about by pundits, bloggers and others?

  • Anonymous

    as Terry answered I cant believe that a person able to make $9844 in 4 weeks on the computer. did you read this page… http://makeadesire.blogspot.in/

  • Anonymous

    Your comment is about the extent of any eloquence I have come to expect from today’s Republican party.

    In the absence of ANY successful accomplishments from the past to brag about and NOTHING for the future other than the same GOP plans that have demonstrated themselves to be proven failures, all you people are left with is the strange habit of posting useless comments that have some reference to ‘poopie’.

    Keep up the good work. Every time one of you people makes a post, Obama gets another vote.

Abrams Media Network click here for advertising opportunities

© 2013 The Jane Dough | About Us | Advertise | Newsletter | Privacy | User Agreement | Disclaimer | Contact | Archives | Send a Tip | RSS RSS
Dan Abrams, Founder | Hosting by Datagram

X