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Ann Romney hit the ball out of the park tonight. They married young lived in a basement apartment--using a pull out ironing board as the kitchen table--and for a desk --a table that was supported by saw horses. She had her 1st son in this apartment while Mitt was working toward getting his two degrees. Romney's father didn't achieve a college education until after Mitt was born--Ann's grandfather was a coal miner. Ann is Episcopalian--Mitt Mormon.
She talked about raising 5 boys--(not easy)--and just briefly mentioned her MS and breast cancer.
The home run came when Ann looked the T.V. audience in the face and said "you need to listen to this." Mitt doesn't like to talk about the people he has helped in life--because he considers that a privilege--not a political talking point. She also stated that no one handed Mitt his success--he "BUILT" his own success.
At any rate--according to Twitter activity which was being polled--even left leaning women gave Ann Romney's speech a very high rating. Ann Romney is going to make a great first lady--she appealed to every woman in this country tonight.
For more:
Romney nominated; wife Ann convention's star speaker - The Denver Post
Ann Romney hit the ball out of the park tonight. They married young lived in a basement apartment--using a pull out ironing board as the kitchen table--and for a desk --a table that was supported by saw horses. She had her 1st son in this apartment while Mitt was working toward getting his two degrees. Romney's father didn't achieve a college education until after Mitt was born--Ann's grandfather was a coal miner. Ann is Episcopalian--Mitt Mormon.
She talked about raising 5 boys--(not easy)--and just briefly mentioned her MS and breast cancer.
The home run came when Ann looked the T.V. audience in the face and said "you need to listen to this." Mitt doesn't like to talk about the people he has helped in life--because he considers that a privilege--not a political talking point. She also stated that no one handed Mitt his success--he "BUILT" his own success.
At any rate--according to Twitter activity which was being polled--even left leaning women gave Ann Romney's speech a very high rating. Ann Romney is going to make a great first lady--she appealed to every woman in this country tonight.
For more:
Romney nominated; wife Ann convention's star speaker - The Denver Post
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She supports her husband...the husband that stole from the middle class and bought her a fancy horse? Who would have though that possible? It's almost a Morman miracle. Maybe she knows where the gold plates are. Anybody look in their china cabinet?
Ann Romney hit the ball out of the park tonight. They married young lived in a basement apartment--using a pull out ironing board as the kitchen table--and for a desk --a table that was supported by saw horses. She had her 1st son in this apartment while Mitt was working toward getting his two degrees. Romney's father didn't achieve a college education until after Mitt was born--Ann's grandfather was a coal miner. Ann is Episcopalian--Mitt Mormon.
She talked about raising 5 boys--(not easy)--and just briefly mentioned her MS and breast cancer.
The home run came when Ann looked the T.V. audience in the face and said "you need to listen to this." Mitt doesn't like to talk about the people he has helped in life--because he considers that a privilege--not a political talking point. She also stated that no one handed Mitt his success--he "BUILT" his own success.
At any rate--according to Twitter activity which was being polled--even left leaning women gave Ann Romney's speech a very high rating. Ann Romney is going to make a great first lady--she appealed to every woman in this country tonight.
For more:
Romney nominated; wife Ann convention's star speaker - The Denver Post
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She supports her husband...the husband that stole from the middle class and bought her a fancy horse? Who would have though that possible? It's almost a Morman miracle. Maybe she knows where the gold plates are. Anybody look in their china cabinet?
Let's see we were born and raised "In the land of opportunity"--so when someone seizes that opportunity--(with no help from anyone else)--we're supposed to ATTACK THEM.
I remember a democrat 2004 Presidential candidate by the name of Senator John Kerry--who is FILTHY RICH. Why? Not because he worked to earn it. It is because he is married to Teresa HEINZ Kerry--the HEINZ heiress.
The democrat party's version of real achievement---
Ann Romney hit the ball out of the park tonight. They married young lived in a basement apartment--using a pull out ironing board as the kitchen table--and for a desk --a table that was supported by saw horses. She had her 1st son in this apartment while Mitt was working toward getting his two degrees. Romney's father didn't achieve a college education until after Mitt was born--Ann's grandfather was a coal miner. Ann is Episcopalian--Mitt Mormon.
She talked about raising 5 boys--(not easy)--and just briefly mentioned her MS and breast cancer.
The home run came when Ann looked the T.V. audience in the face and said "you need to listen to this." Mitt doesn't like to talk about the people he has helped in life--because he considers that a privilege--not a political talking point. She also stated that no one handed Mitt his success--he "BUILT" his own success.
At any rate--according to Twitter activity which was being polled--even left leaning women gave Ann Romney's speech a very high rating. Ann Romney is going to make a great first lady--she appealed to every woman in this country tonight.
For more:
Romney nominated; wife Ann convention's star speaker - The Denver Post
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........................
She supports her husband...the husband that stole from the middle class and bought her a fancy horse? Who would have though that possible? It's almost a Morman miracle. Maybe she knows where the gold plates are. Anybody look in their china cabinet?
Ann Romney hit the ball out of the park tonight. They married young lived in a basement apartment--using a pull out ironing board as the kitchen table--and for a desk --a table that was supported by saw horses.
Ann Romney hit the ball out of the park tonight. They married young lived in a basement apartment--using a pull out ironing board as the kitchen table--and for a desk --a table that was supported by saw horses. She had her 1st son in this apartment while Mitt was working toward getting his two degrees. Romney's father didn't achieve a college education until after Mitt was born--Ann's grandfather was a coal miner. Ann is Episcopalian--Mitt Mormon.
She talked about raising 5 boys--(not easy)--and just briefly mentioned her MS and breast cancer.
The home run came when Ann looked the T.V. audience in the face and said "you need to listen to this." Mitt doesn't like to talk about the people he has helped in life--because he considers that a privilege--not a political talking point. She also stated that no one handed Mitt his success--he "BUILT" his own success.
At any rate--according to Twitter activity which was being polled--even left leaning women gave Ann Romney's speech a very high rating. Ann Romney is going to make a great first lady--she appealed to every woman in this country tonight.
For more:
Romney nominated; wife Ann convention's star speaker - The Denver Post
The following is a transcript of Ann Romney's Tuesday night speech to the Republican National Convention, as provided by the GOP:
I want to talk to you tonight not about politics and not about party. And while there are many important issues well hear discussed in this convention and throughout this campaign, tonight I want to talk to you from my heart about our hearts.
I want to talk not about what divides us, but what holds us together as an American family. I want to talk to you tonight about that one great thing that unites us, that one thing that brings us our greatest joy when times are good, and the deepest solace in our dark hours.
Tonight I want to talk to you about love.
I want to talk to you about the deep and abiding love I have for a man I met at a dance many years ago. And the profound love I have, and I know we share, for this country.
I want to talk to you about that love so deep only a mother can fathom it the love we have for our children and our childrens children.
And I want us to think tonight about the love we all share for those Americans, our brothers and sisters, who are going through difficult times, whose days are never easy, nights are always long, and whose work never seems done.
They are here among us tonight in this hall; they are here in neighborhoods across Tampa and all across America. The parents who lie awake at night side by side, wondering how theyll be able to pay the mortgage or make the rent; the single dad whos working extra hours tonight, so that his kids can buy some new clothes to go back to school, can take a school trip or play a sport, so his kids can feel. like the other kids.
And the working moms who love their jobs but would like to work just a little less to spend more time with the kids, but thats just out of the question with this economy. Or that couple who would like to have another child, but wonder how will they afford it.
Ive been all across this country for the past year and a half and heard these stories of how hard it is to get ahead now. Ive heard your voices: Im running in place, we just cant get ahead.
Sometimes I think that late at night, if we were all silent for just a few moments and listened carefully, we could hear a great collective sigh from the moms and dads across America who made it through another day, and know that theyll make it through another one tomorrow. But in that end of the day moment, they just arent sure how.
And if you listen carefully, youll hear the women sighing a little bit more than the men. Its how it is, isnt it?
Its the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.
Its the moms of this nation single, married, widowed who really hold this country together. Were the mothers, were the wives, were the grandmothers, were the big sisters, were the little sisters, were the daughters.
You know its true, dont you? Youre the ones who always have to do a little more.
You know what its like to work a little harder during the day to earn the respect you deserve at work and then come home to help with that book report which just has to be done. You know what those late night phone calls with an elderly parent are like and the long weekend drives just to see how theyre doing. You know the fastest route to the local emergency room and which doctors actually answer the phone when you call at night.
You know what its like to sit in that graduation ceremony and wonder how it was that so many long days turned into years that went by so quickly.
You are the best of America. You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you.
Tonight, we salute you and sing your praises.
Im not sure if men really understand this, but I dont think theres a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!
And thats fine. We dont want easy. But these last few years have been harder than they needed to be. Its all the little things that price at the pump you just cant believe, the grocery bills that just get bigger; all those things that used to be free, like school sports, are now one more bill to pay. Its all the little things that pile up to become big things. And the big things the good jobs, the chance at college, that home you want to buy, just get harder. Everything has become harder.
Were too smart to know there arent easy answers. But were not dumb enough to accept that there arent better answers.
And that is where this boy I met at a high school dance comes in. His name is Mitt Romney and you really should get to know him.
I could tell you why I fell in love with him -- he was tall, laughed a lot, was nervous -- girls like that, it shows the guys a little intimidated -- and he was nice to my parents but he was really glad when my parents werent around.
Thats a good thing. And he made me laugh.
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
When he was 15, dad came to America. In our country, he saw hope and an opportunity to escape from poverty. He moved to a small town in the great state of Michigan. There, he started a business -- one he built himself, by the way.
He raised a family. And he became mayor of our town.
My dad would often remind my brothers and me how fortunate we were to grow up in a place like America. He wanted us to have every opportunity that came with life in this country -- and so he pushed us to be our best and give our all.
Inside the houses that lined the streets of our town, there were a lot of good fathers teaching their sons and daughters those same values. I didnt know it at the time, but one of those dads was my future father-in-law, George Romney.
Mitts dad never graduated from college. Instead, he became a carpenter.
He worked hard, and he became the head of a car company, and then the governor of Michigan.
When Mitt and I met and fell in love, we were determined not to let anything stand in the way of our life together. I was an Episcopalian. He was a Mormon.
We were very young. Both still in college. There were many reasons to delay marriage, and you know? We just didnt care. We got married and moved into a basement apartment. We walked to class together, shared the housekeeping, and ate a lot of pasta and tuna fish. Our desk was a door propped up on sawhorses. Our dining room table was a fold-down ironing board in the kitchen. Those were very special days.
Then our first son came along. All at once Im 22 years old, with a baby and a husband whos going to business school and law school at the same time, and I can tell you, probably like every other girl who finds herself in a new life far from family and friends, with a new baby and a new husband, that it dawned on me that I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into.
That was 42 years ago. Now we have five sons and 18 grandchildren and Im still in love with that boy I met at a high school dance.
I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a storybook marriage. Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.
A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.
I know this good and decent man for what he is warm and loving and patient.
He has tried to live his life with a set of values centered on family, faith, and love of ones fellow man. From the time we were first married, Ive seen him spend countless hours helping others. Ive seen him drop everything to help a friend in trouble, and been there when late-night calls of panic came from a member of our church whose child had been taken to the hospital.
You may not agree with Mitts positions on issues or his politics. Massachusetts is only 13% Republican, so its not like thats a shock.
But let me say this to every American who is thinking about who should be our next president:
No one will work harder. No one will care more. No one will move heaven and earth like Mitt Romney to make this country a better place to live!
Its true that Mitt has been successful at each new challenge he has taken on. It amazes me to see his history of success actually being attacked. Are those really the values that made our country great? As a mom of five boys, do we want to raise our children to be afraid of success?
Do we send our children out in the world with the advice, Try to do... okay?
And lets be honest. If the last four years had been more successful, do we really think there would be this attack on Mitt Romneys success?
Of course not.
Mitt will be the first to tell you that he is the most fortunate man in the world. He had two loving parents who gave him strong values and taught him the value of work. He had the chance to get the education his father never had.
But as his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success.
He built it.
He stayed in Massachusetts after graduate school and got a job. I saw the long hours that started with that first job. I was there when he and a small group of friends talked about starting a new company. I was there when they struggled and wondered if the whole idea just wasnt going to work. Mitts reaction was to work harder and press on.
Today that company has become another great American success story.
Has it made those who started the company successful beyond their dreams?
Yes, it has.
It allowed us to give our sons the chance at good educations and made all those long hours of book reports and homework worth every minute. Its given us the deep satisfaction of being able to help others in ways that we could never have imagined. Mitt doesnt like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And were no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They dont do it so that others will think more of them.
They do it because there IS no greater joy.
Give and it shall be given unto you.
But because this is America, that small company which grew has helped so many others lead better lives. The jobs that grew from the risks they took have become college educations, first homes. That success has helped fund scholarships, pensions, and retirement funds. This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.
At every turn in his life, this man I met at a high school dance, has helped lift up others. He did it with the Olympics, when many wanted to give up.
He did it in Massachusetts, where he guided a state from economic crisis to unemployment of just 4.7%.
Under Mitt, Massachusettss schools were the best in the nation. The best. He started the John and Abigail Adams scholarships, which give the top 25 percent of high school graduates a four-year tuition-free scholarship.
This is the man America needs.
This is the man who will wake up every day with the determination to solve the problems that others say cant be solved, to fix what others say is beyond repair. This is the man who will work harder than anyone so that we can work a little less hard.
I cant tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment:
This man will not fail.
This man will not let us down.
This man will lift up America!
It has been 47 years since that tall, kind of charming young man brought me home from our first dance. Not every day since has been easy.
But he still makes me laugh. And never once did I have a single reason to doubt that I was the luckiest woman in the world.
I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts.
This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren.
You can trust Mitt.
He loves America. He will take us to a better place, just as he took me home safely from that dance. Give him that chance. Give America that chance.
God bless each of you and God Bless the United States of America.
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NewsRoomAmerica.com - Text of Ann Romney's Speech at RNC
Its obviously not the first time in her adult life that she is proud of her country
Michelle Obama said after her husband was elected President of the United States, that this was the first time she was really proud of her country. Since that first slap at our nation, she has consistently been an embarrassment in the role of First Lady. Her lack of class, poise, her wardrobe, her extravagant vacations on the tax payers dime during difficult economic times, and her inability to connect with the American people, has been almost as discouraging as her husbands failing policies that have taken this country to the brink of disaster.
This is why, when Ann Romney took the stage tonight at the Republican National Convention, I simply breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, a woman of class, intelligence, integrity and all the characteristics we look for in our First Lady. Her speech about her husband was believable and engaging. I hope the American people were listening, especially women. Here is Anns speech.
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The Ladies in Red :: Jan Morgan Media
She parked it.
It may have gone into the parking area.
I imagine liberals are going ape s...t over her speech--she just obliterated their campaign of CLASS WARFARE. The Romney's haven't been filthy RICH PEOPLE all of their lives.