DNC: Ann Romney 'never worked a day in her life'

[buckeye45_73]

Who cares, not all women want a set of balls and want to be men. Women's studies professors are the weirdos, not women who decide not to work.

Plus do democrats ever work? they just get their buddies to appoint them to a cushy government job, where they pay nothing for their own benefits and cant get fired even if they rape someone on video. And the rest just leech off the taxpayers.

 

[oreo]

Peel back the layer on a Liberal and find amazing hypocrisy.

Suppose the Left likes 'em barefoot and pregnant.

Obama and DNC advisor Hilary Rosen Attacks Ann Romney - YouTube

So Obama is now running against Ann Romney----

Even so--she's probably got a better resume than Obama--- Stay at home moms--raising 5 kids have one of the toughest jobs in the world.

 

[MarcATL]

Peel back the layer on a Liberal and find amazing hypocrisy.

Suppose the Left likes 'em barefoot and pregnant.

Obama and DNC advisor Hilary Rosen Attacks Ann Romney - YouTube

Well.....has she?!??

 

[oreo]

Peel back the layer on a Liberal and find amazing hypocrisy.

Suppose the Left likes 'em barefoot and pregnant.

Obama and DNC advisor Hilary Rosen Attacks Ann Romney - YouTube

Well.....has she?!??

Has she what?

 

[Mac1958]

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What a freakin' stupid thing to say. Moms don't work.

Just another example of how partisan ideology makes people NUTS.

The GOP would be smart to jump all over this one.

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[Mr.Nick]

Peel back the layer on a Liberal and find amazing hypocrisy.

Suppose the Left likes 'em barefoot and pregnant.

Obama and DNC advisor Hilary Rosen Attacks Ann Romney - YouTube

You should see the project fucks here in Chicago...

They never worked a day in their life.

They have like 3rd grade educations (thanks to our awesome unionized public school system)....

How the fuck can one be a great grandmother at 50???

 

[Unkotare]

They have like 3rd grade educations

Wow, two grades ahead of you!

 

[Peach]

Yeah raising five kids is not a job and having to deal with multiple sclerosis, breast cancer and having a lumpectomy didn't take up any of her time. If I remember right in the 2004 election wasn't the same claim made about Laura Bush until it was pointed out she had worked as librarian.

Ann Romney sure sounds like she has WORKED, if helping raise five kids, running a household while your Husband serves in office, manages a company, AND runs for President, ISN'T work, what IS?

 

[Valerie]

I'd say raising five boys is enough work for any woman! Jeeeesh!


Ann Romney is a very sweet woman and anyone who attacks her is an idiot.

First Lady of Massachusetts and charitable work

While Massachusetts First Lady, she was active in teenage pregnancy prevention efforts.[27] In 2004, she said she was in favor of stem cell research as long as it was done "morally and ethically".[21] One of her rare public appearances at the Massachusetts State House came in 2004 when she lobbied the legislature to raise awareness about multiple sclerosis.[28]

In 2005, the governor appointed his wife as head of a new special office whose purpose was to help the state's faith-based groups gain more federal monies in association with the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.[29] This came after the state had seen its share of faith-based grants decline over the preceding three years.[30] In this unpaid Governor's Liaison position,[17][29] Ann Romney was termed a "dynamo" by Jim Towey, director of the White House office.[30]

She has been involved in a number of children's charities, including being director of the inner city-oriented Best Friends.[17] She worked extensively with the Ten Point Coalition in Boston and with other groups that promoted better safety and opportunities for urban youths.[31] She was given the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from Salt Lake City-based Operation Kids.[32] She has also served as a board member for the United Way of America[17] and helped found United Way Faith and Action.[31]

At the conclusion of her time as Massachusetts First Lady, Romney said that the role "doesn't need to change your life at all. I think it's an opportunity for service and an opportunity to see people of all walks of life from across the Commonwealth.... It's an enriching part of your life [and one will] treasure it forever."[33] Her health was still a primary factor in family decisions about her husband's career, and Mitt said in 2005 that if her multiple sclerosis flared up, "I wouldn't be involved in politics anymore; that would be over." [34]


Ann Romney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Multiple sclerosis and riding

During 1997, Ann Romney began experiencing severe numbness, fatigue, and other symptoms,[12] and just before Thanksgiving in 1998, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.[15][19] Mitt Romney described watching her fail a series of neurological tests as the worst day of his life.[12] He later said: "I couldn't operate without Ann. We're a partnership. We've always been a partnership so her being healthy and our being able to be together is essential."[15] She initially experienced a period of severe difficulty with the disease,[1] and later said: "I was very sick in 1998 when I was diagnosed. I was pretty desperate, pretty frightened and very, very sick. It was tough at the beginning, just to think, this is how I'm going to feel for the rest of my life."[21] Since then, she credits a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments with giving her a lifestyle mostly without limitations.[1] She initially used corticosteroids, including intravenously, and credited them with helping stop the progression of the disease.[21] She then dropped them and other medications due to counterproductive side effects.[18] She has partaken of reflexology, acupuncture, and craniosacral therapy, and has said, "There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both."[21] She is a board member for the New England chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society,[17] and has been given the MS Society's Annual Hope Award.[11]

Romney is an avid equestrian, crediting her renewed involvement in it while in Park City, Utah (where the couple had built a vacation home and where they lived when he was in charge of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games) for much of her recovery after her multiple sclerosis diagnosis[19][22] and for her continued ability to deal with the disease.[18] She has received recognition in dressage as an adult amateur at the national level,[18] including earning her 2006 Gold Medal[23] and 2005 Silver Medal at the Grand Prix level from the United States Dressage Federation.[17] She also sometimes competes in professional dressage events and has broken the 60% level at Grand Prix. Romney works with California trainer Jan Ebling,[24] who schools her and her horses in dressage and works with her importing new stock from Europe. The pair qualified for the Pan-Am games in 2004. By 2011, the horses she owned in California were valued at more than $250,000.[25]

Marriage and children

Immediately after Romney's return from France in December 1968, the pair reconnected and agreed to get married as soon as possible.[12] Ann Davies and Mitt Romney were married by a church elder in a civil ceremony on March 21, 1969, at her Bloomfield Hills home, with a reception afterward at a local country club.[4][12] The following day the couple flew to Utah for a wedding ceremony inside the Salt Lake Temple; her family could not attend since they were non-Mormons, but were present at a subsequent wedding breakfast held for them across the street.[4][14]

The couple's first son was born in 1970[12] while both were undergraduates at Brigham Young,[15] living in a $75-a-month basement apartment,[16] which Mitt had transferred to based upon her request.[13] After he graduated, the couple moved to Boston so that he could attend Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. Slowed down by parenthood, she later finished her undergraduate work by gaining a semester and half's worth of credits via taking night courses at Harvard University Extension School,[15] from which she graduated in 1975[1] with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree with a concentration in French language.[17]

A stay-at-home mother,[18] Romney raised the family's five boys (born between 1970 and 1981)[12] and taught early morning scripture classes to them and other children[18] while her husband pursued his career, first in business, then in politics.[19]

 

[Truthseeker420]

Im sure she has worked many days in her life. Do they think stay at home moms sit around all day doing nothing?

When you have 100 mexican maids, yes.

 

[Truthseeker420]

Im sure she has worked many days in her life. Do they think stay at home moms sit around all day doing nothing?

When you 100 Mexican maids, yes.

No illegals though, He Running For Office, For Pete's Sake !

 

[Valerie]

Ann Romney on her choices, family, health and future
December 8, 2002


When Ann finally does take the floor, it's to explain what is already plain to see: Her role in the family is to be a "calming" and "focused" presence. "I'm the one that kept the family going," she said. While raising the boys...

This morning, it's clear that Ann Romney is the sun around which the Romney solar system - Mitt and five sons, Tagg, Matt, Josh, Craig and Ben - revolves. The interview, held in the bright family room of their home on Belmont Hill, ranged from Ann's battle with multiple sclerosis, to her role once her husband takes office, to her early days as a young wife and mother.

The room is comfortable - on one end table a stack of magazines is topped with the latest issue of Vogue and a recent People. A pile of toys for the Romneys' three grandchildren is tucked in a corner next to the giant entertainment center.

Ann, barefoot and dressed in a black sweater and jeans, settles back to describe the diplomatic skills it took to raise five active, often rambunctious, boys.

"It was so complex," she says, likening the boys' ever-changing alliances to the Cold War's Warsaw Pact.

She says she rarely lost her temper - "I tried to keep that 'love at home' thing going" - but she could be tough when she wanted to.

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Her decision to stay home full-time with the children came early. Ann was just 21 when Tagg was born - both she and Mitt were still undergrads at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. When Mitt finished BYU, they moved to Boston so he could attend Harvard Law School. Ann, who hadn't completed her degree yet, got her last semester-and-a-half's worth of credits by taking night classes at Harvard University's Extension School.

"I was taking exams with babies in my lap and nursing, but I finished," she recalls.

Mitt says that as he was climbing the corporate ladder, Ann was the parent that made the investment in their family.

"Her life was raising and leading the boys - whether it was driving them to lessons or practices or friends' homes or counseling with them when they were upset," he says.

"She was always there for us," adds Tagg, 32, who now lives with his family just down the block from his parents.

Living near so many colleges and universities, Ann aspired to earn a master's degree, perhaps in art history. But having five children in just over 10 years kept her from pursuing interests outside the home. In the early years, she said, "It was tough - especially in Boston, where there were so many women who were choosing career paths - to know what I was doing was the right thing for me.

"And, of course, as I got to the point where I could actually start to do something, I got MS, so that was another blow."


Devastating diagnosis

The Romney family seems to still be trying to deal with that devastating diagnosis, which came four years ago. Multiple sclerosis afflicts 350,000 American adults, who can suffer a host of symptoms, such as paralysis and vision loss. Attacks come intermittently - Ann's usually occur in the fall - and can cause brain damage.

Back in the family room, as the conversation turns to Ann's disease, Mitt jumps up from his chair and asks his youngest sons: "Want some pancakes?"

"Go ahead," she says, waving them off to the kitchen. "I think the griddle's warm. I think you just need to spray it."

The details are painful, and her eyes well up with tears quickly. Her diagnosis came just before Thanksgiving 1998, after the first attack, a month earlier, had left one side of her body numb. More terrifying, she says, was the intense fatigue.

"At that time, as sick as I was, I would have just as soon had cancer and died," she recalls. "I was like, 'Would someone please give me a different diagnosis?' because I didn't know how I was going to live with this."

The smallest task, such as picking up an envelope off a table, was exhausting. The Romneys considered installing an elevator in the house.

"I didn't have the energy to even talk to anybody. It's like a gray cloud that invaded every cell of my body. It was in the brain. It was in my muscles. It was in my organs. I had no ability to almost do anything," she recalls.

Having stacked the boys' plates with pancakes, Mitt returns to the room, and asks "What'd I miss?"

"Not much," Ann replies.

Asked his reaction to the initial diagnosis, Mitt presses his hands together. "Obviously, I was very, very scared."

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Ann has been in remission for more than a year, which she credits to a variety of holistic measures. She does reflexology, accupressure, accupuncture, deep-breathing exercises, yoga, and tries to ride her horses every day.

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Dec2002/AnnRomney.html

 

[editec]

A woman who has never had to work and never had to pinch pennies to feed and cloth her children probably really does not know what its like to have lived under those circumstances.

Anybody here reallly doubt that?

 

[JoeB131]

I heard they had to take Ann back to Stepford, Conneticutt, because her warrenty ran out.

 

[Katzndogz]

It's part of the democrat war on women. One would think that women never had to fight to be taken what they do at home seriously. Never had to fight for respect. I love it. This is taking the blinders off and showing democrats for what they really are. They don't even like women, but are quite happy to use them.

 

[SniperFire]

I heard they had to take Ann back to Stepford, Conneticutt, because her warrenty ran out.

Let your misogyny flow, Democrats!

 

[JoeB131]

I heard they had to take Ann back to Stepford, Conneticutt, because her warrenty ran out.

Let your misogyny flow, Democrats!

1) Not a Democrat.
2) The GOP are the ones spending the last six months alienating the shit out of women. Putting up Ann-Bot to try to convince them that they'd all be happier being like her is kind of silly.

The ironic thing, a lot of women would LOVE to stay home with their kids until they are old enough to go to school. Unfortunately, the Mitt Romney's of the world have made it impossible for a family to get by on one salary.

 

[JoeB131]

It's part of the democrat war on women. One would think that women never had to fight to be taken what they do at home seriously. Never had to fight for respect. I love it. This is taking the blinders off and showing democrats for what they really are. They don't even like women, but are quite happy to use them.

Ummm, Democrats aren't the one who had a radio loudmouth screaming they were "Sluts" and "Prostitutes" on a national show, and Romney couldn't say anything bad about him because, hey, he wouldn't want to alienate his audience.

 

[SniperFire]

Unfortunately, the Mitt Romney's of the world have made it impossible for a family to get by on one salary.

Explain.

Do you drive an import, by chance?

 

[JoeB131]

Unfortunately, the Mitt Romney's of the world have made it impossible for a family to get by on one salary.

Explain.

Do you drive an import, by chance?

NOpe. I always buy American. Of course, how can you tell these days... I found out one of my Fords was assembled in Mexico.

But I go back to my point. The Republicans have spent the last 30 years undermining the middle class. Partially because unions break for the Dems, partially because of their slavish devotion Wall Street greed, but the fact is, working class salaries have gone down in real numbers since 1980 after being adjusted for inflation.

Free Trade, Right to Work, At-Will employment. All things the GOP is for, that have destroyed the very firewall against the type of European Socialism you all abhor.

So while my Dad could raise five kids on his good union salary back in the 1960's, his kids have to work two jobs just to keep a roof over their heads, AND they've limitd themselves to two kids on average.

But Mitt Romney has four mansions... that's the important thing.