::cue tiny violins::
In audio obtained by The Last Word, Ann Romney loses her shit on an Iowa radio station in response to a question about GOP critics who are calling her husband’s campaign a clusterfuck:
“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring. This is hard. And, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”
Oh cry me a river, Miss Ann. It’s hard for you?
[read full post at ABLC]
Mnemosyne
So much for that White Horse Prophecy, huh, Ann?
Mike in NC
Everything about this entitled plutocrat makes me want to puke.
reflectionephemeral
Get in the ring, motherfuckers!
Axl Rose, Ann Romney. Pretty similar worldviews.
zzyzx
STOP IT!
Just Some Fuckhead
I kinda feel sorry for her. When she was asked back when about how she felt about Mitt running for President again, she said something along the lines of “Mitt won’t be fulfilled without this.” So she knows nothing she or her family has to offer will “fulfill” Mitt and then on top of this deadening realization, she has to get out there and sing and dance for him or he’ll hurt Ralfaca real bad.
freelancer
Is it just me or is mediaite’s player/server slow as balls? I have really fast internet, but this thing buffers like I’m trying to watch a movie in the year 1999.
Xecky Gilchrist
Didn’t old Dumbya also discover that Prezniting was hard work?
Why is it always such a surprise to Republicans that things to do with government, even when they do it the stupid way they do it, are difficult?
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
Well you have to admit there was every reason for her to expect 100 percent commitment from republicans after the discipline they showed against gore and Kerry. Why they don’t give them the respect they’re entitled to is beyond me. Perhaps they’re just not fans.
BGinCHI
Wait, I thought comedy was hard.
Also, according to Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part.
For the Romneys, I guess the wailing is the hardest part.
replicnt6
It’s time you people realized that this is an important election and how blessed you are to have Mitt as a candidate.
elisabeth
Leave Mitt alooooooone!
JCT
Jesus, Ann is just a full-on parody of a human being. Forget about living in a bubble, she’s basically been hermetically sealed off. It’s really like she is beginning to realize that for ONCE she can’t buy something she wants and it is driving her nuts.
To quote Tbogg – SHUT UP DUMB LADY.
The Fat Kate Middleton
I think we’re starting to get tired of her.
BGinCHI
Ronin:
“Lady, I never walk into a place I don’t know how to get out of.”
Mitt: you are not an honorable man.
gnomedad
Leave Ann alooooooone!
Comrade Mary
Sometimes Ann Romney doubts you people’s commitment to Sparkle Motion.
? Martin
Uh, no it’s not hard. Just stop saying stupid evil shit and it’ll suddenly get easy.
Gwangung
Hey, Ann, if ya can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen
Mark S.
Oh, Ann, I realize how lucky we are to have Mitt running. Just not the same way you do.
? Martin
@Gwangung: Be nice. She’s never been in a kitchen before. She doesn’t know…
Kathy in St. Louis
I think I’m beginning to see why Romney said they were using her sparingly so that the public woudn’t get tired of her. I’m tired of her already.
She’s certainly a big help, isn’t she?
amk
When you hubby unit is shooting his foot repeatedly, ann dear, it’s his own gun that is doing all the shootin’.
Dennis SGMM
Ann thought that the grateful peasantry would great Mighty Mitt with strewn flowers everywhere he went. Mitt seems to have overlooked actually sitting down and talking with people outside of his bubble in his never ending run for the presidency.
Talk about a sense of entitlement.
amk
@Kathy in St. Louis: Wasn’t gopolitico and its ilk spouting her as a ‘game changer’ just a month back ? Wonder what happened.
Little Boots
can we all say, just:
romney is doomed?
we all get that, right?
JCT
@Dennis SGMM:
I’m beginning to think she thought this would really happen.
Joseph Nobles
What if Mitt doesn’t give a concession speech? After losing the presidency, what would he have to lose? Just watch the numbers come in, get in the jet, and head to Galt Canyon. In my book, that’d be the perfect ending to this campaign. That and the House flipping.
Tractarian
@reflectionephemeral:
Congratulations! You won the internets today!
Dennis SGMM
For an equestrienne she sure doesn’t seem to recognize foot-in-mouth disease.
dance around in your bones
OT (and on lefty coast) but Colbert is killing me tonight with his Colbert Gigante Reporto en español – I’m dyin’ here.
Mark S.
Does it seem like Ann does a hell of a lot of interviews for a candidate’s spouse? Well, I guess if your candidate can’t even go on Fox without tripping over his dick you kind of need to do that.
Geoduck
Put me in the camp that says she REALLY didn’t want to do this campaign at all, and she’s gritting her teeth until it’s over, and she no longer has to deal with You People.
trollhattan
Am guessing if she became first lady her signature campaign would be returning sterling flatware to America’s dining tables. Nine-piece settings, of course.
jshooper
I can listen to krystal ball yell ” THIS IS HARD ” all day…lol
trollhattan
@Mark S.:
I always hoped Cindy McCain would do an interview about brewing. Sadly, it was not to be.
PeakVT
@dance around in your bones: Did Colbert dye himself for the piece?
dance around in your bones
Ann Romney means nothing to me. Zip, zilch, nada, nunca, zero, poco, ninguna, not a damn thing.
That is all.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
There are people who make Ann Romney look likable and normal, and fortunately, don’t know enough to protect Ann Romney from herself:
If you’ve been a political junkie as long as I have, you’ll guess the last name of the odious Georgette.
Wag
@Dennis SGMM:
No, I think Dennis wins tonight.
Hill Dweller
@amk:
They were trying to shape peoples’ perceptions at Willard’s behest. The wingnut base will believe anything they’re told.
In reality, she was a liability during both of Willard’s campaigns in Massachusetts.
Dennis SGMM
In an attempt to reach out to the middle class Romney is now promising a chicken in every pot and a car in every elevator.
dance around in your bones
@PeakVT:
No, but he dressed up in a pink suit with two large-breasted women on either side.
His Spanish wasn’t too bad, either. ;)
Ash Can
Whose bright fucking idea was it to have her talking to the press, anyway? That person should be fired-ass fired from the campaign. Even if it’s Mitt himself.
? Martin
@Mark S.: Michelle did a lot as well. Difference is that Michelle delivered her own message. Ann just seems to remind us over and over that if we had sex with Mitt, we’d want to vote for him. No message.
replicnt6
@Mark S.: This is the one that wins the thread.
Dennis SGMM
@replicnt6:
I must agree.
Little Boots
so, you goobers, whitesnake, for no apparent reason:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg
TaMara (BHF)
In a just world there would be a debate scheduled between Michelle Obama and Ann Romney.
Turgidson
@Joseph Nobles:
Given how much of a contemptible piece of shit Romney has revealed himself to be, I actually am wondering what his concession speech will be like, and I think it is an actual possibility that he just wouldn’t give one. He’s that much of an entitled asshole.
McCain seemed like an entitled asshole in 2008 – hell, so did Hillary once she fell impossibly behind in delegates, but Mitt is exponentially worse – exponentially doesn’t even cover it. McCain has a soul – it’s shriveled up and atrophied and barely breathing, but it’s there. And he gave a pretty classy concession speech. And Hillary has redeemed herself 10x over with her kick ass performance at State. Mitt? Really don’t think so. He’s a fucking asshole to the bone.
And he’s such an arrogant fuck that I don’t think he’ll be able to accept his defeat to “that one”. He’ll either refuse to give a speech out of pique, or it will be an angry, bitter rant with a 5% chance of dropping the niCLANG bomb or something similar.
nitpicker
Ann can’t wait to for Mitt to get to the easy part, running the free world.
trollhattan
Dear lord, crew of the WMR Failboat get bonuses. H/T TBogg
AA+ Bonds
Ann Romney is the wife of a Massachusetts Republican politician . . . in every possible way, she is unused to the Little People talking back at her
Here’s your keystone to Ann Romney:
Ann Romney’s father was a miner-turned-engineer-turned-business-owner and a vocal atheist who was baptized after his death by Mitt and Ann, and if you look at this quote you will understand exactly how Ann Romney views her courtship and marriage with Mitt – that she could never be grateful enough that this incredibly successful Mormon businessman would swoop in and run her life for her and give her everything she wanted and the very least she could do was submit to him utterly
I doubt she has any idea why the rest of the United States does not feel the same way about “the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being [she’s] ever known in [her] life” – the sad part is that she is both the victim and the nefarious brainwashing conspiracy itself
Villago Delenda Est
Ann, if you can’t stand the heat, get your help out of the kitchen.
On edit: Gwangung got there first.
/bow
Hill Dweller
@? Martin:
The treatment of Michelle in ’08 and Ann in ’12 is a microcosm of the media’s treatment of both political parties. Ann gets undeserved praise simple because she is the Republican candidate’s wife, while Michelle was considered a liability in the press, despite being the far more effective surrogate.
Little Boots
nobody likes the whitenake.
okay, omnes, would. … totally hate it.
trollhattan
@Turgidson:
Chatty ADD wannabe Ryan will probably give it and not let Willard on stage. Like McCain & Palin reversed.
Dennis SGMM
@Turgidson:
“I guess that you people don’t want the Curse of Ham lifted from the White House. I guess all of you moochers decided to drain the last bit of life out of this country. Well, you won’t have Mitt Romney to kick around any more.”
Little Boots
but still:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg
YellowJournalism
She’s the presidential wife version of the talking Barbie: “Running for President is hard.”
Mark S.
So does anyone think Mitt can turn it around in the debates?
That wasn’t a serious question. I am looking forward to the town hall debate. Mitt’s always so at ease when he’s fielding questions from the commoners.
AA+ Bonds
@trollhattan:
It’s that or the headline, “Top Romney staffers jump ship, sources say”
dance around in your bones
@AA+ Bonds:
YellowJournalism
Ann Romney always looks like she’s holding in a massive fart. I bet if she just went behind a door and let one rip, she’d come back out as a more pleasant person.
Dennis SGMM
@AA+ Bonds:
What’s the difference between a rat and a Romney campaign staffer?
There’s no way you can bribe a rat to stay on a sinking ship.
AA+ Bonds
@Mark S.:
It will definitely be his chance to try harder to grind the 1998 Obama video Fox News has been pimping into the media rug. And hey maybe “I Don’t Want To Wait” by Paula Cole will come back too, maybe that will happen
I think that is pretty much his only chance to move his numbers, that or another super-surprise-Obama-said-he’s-a-Chicom-agent-once line because the debate series is the 209,309,959th “media event” that makes the political press into motherfucking idiots who all repeat the same three-word quote 24/7 for a week
Little Boots
vulgarity.
YellowJournalism
@AA+ Bonds: I hate you for mentioning that song. It will be in my head for a week!
Little Boots
mitt is doomed. just is.
Turgidson
@Mark S.:
The moderators are pushovers, so I think Romney might be able to sail through repeating his mendacious talking points and get high marks from the Villagers for his poise or gravitas or some shit.
But that won’t be good enough to alter the race, because I simply can’t comprehend Obama crashing and burning badly enough to give him that opening unless Mitt hires goons to dope him up on LSD or something beforehand.
Cmm
Amen to what ABL said. I just can’t understand all the Michelle hate. She is gorgeous, classy, has some great First Lady interests and is raising 2 lovely daughters. And she and the Prez seem to have a sincere, genuine love and respect for each other.
azlib
I am sure the professionals in the Romney campaign were cringing. They sure are not managing this couple very well.
Villago Delenda Est
@Cmm:
Michelle is BLAH.
Sure, she’s gorgeous, classy, has some great First Lady interests and is raising 2 lovely daughters.
But she’s BLAH.
What more reason do they need to hate her?
trollhattan
@Turgidson: He’ll be bonin’ up on
thosethe Sarah(tm) debate tape to see how he can sell the “I’m not answerin’ your lamestream media gotcha’ questions, I’m gonna’ tell the American people what they want to know.” line.Should be nooo problem for a chatty fellow such as Willard.
wasabi gasp
Indeed. Obama can use all the help he can get.
suzanne
@dance around in your bones: I get the feeling from my LDS lady friends that their husbands suck in the sack.
AA+ Bonds
Terrorist Mitt Bump
trollhattan
@azlib:
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Little Boots
are there professionals in the romney campaign?
gwangung
@? Martin:
Michelle, drunk on tequilla and nursing a ten aspirin hangover, and running on 30 minutes sleep over two days, is a better candidate than Mitt could ever be on his best days.
KG
@Turgidson: Mitt strikes me as the prototypical “good Mormon”, I honest doubt that he’s ever cussed in his life, so I can’t imagine him being the one to drop the n-bomb in a concession speech. That said, he does seem like a self-entitled arrogant prick of mythological proportions, so I could see him not giving a concession speech.
Then again, in 2008 he did give a speech when he withdrew from the primary.
trollhattan
@gwangung:
Sweet Jesus that’s a debate I’d pay big bucks to watch.
ZB IV
Obama’s method is simple. If the opposition is crazy, just feed rope. They’ll eventually do something so insane and outrageous that it’ll become clear to even Americans only paying a little attention that they’re batsh*t crazy.
At some point, even the black guy looks better than the crazy.
Me personally, I’m just finally happy to have a president that I’m confident is far smarter than me. I don’t think Dubya was truly dumb, he just wasn’t smart enough to be a good president. Clinton wasn’t bad, but he wasn’t that smart. Obama is the real deal. His patience and intelligence will be something we’ll truly appreciate years from now when he’s gone.
(And we’ll be happy to see him become a Supreme Court Justice someday if we’re lucky).
And yes, I’m an Obot despite the civil liberty disappointments. We could’ve done on gorram of a bunch worse.
TaMara (BHF)
I really felt like her beautiful, graceful, heartfelt speech at the convention came directly from that experience…that and how Pres. Obama is treated on a daily basis. She rose above all that, but that emotion and that passion, I felt was fueled by those experiences.
She’s a better woman than I am, because I’d have forgone the velvet glove and went straight for blood and pain.
ZB IV
Oh, and sorry, +5.
danah gaz
hahahahahaha
bitch.
gwangung
@trollhattan: I dunno….doncha think it’d be like Michael Jordan in his prime versus the JV scrubs–
Wait, scratch that. You’re right. I WOULD pay big bucks to see that.
dance around in your bones
@suzanne: Really? Sucking in the sack sounds kinda cool.
But I know whatcha mean.
PurpleGirl
@Dennis SGMM: But my building has two passenger elevators and neither are large enough to hold a car. (There is no freight elevator.)
dance around in your bones
@Little Boots:
Whitesnake? OMG.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Turgidson:
Nah, that wouldn’t do it. I don’t think there’s a soul on the planet who could maintain while tripping as well as Obama could. It’d be like, OK, wow, that blue curtain’s REALLY BLUE. Deep breath. Huh. I can see what he’s saying before it comes out of his mouth.
And then bring the hammer down. And smile.
GxB
@trollhattan: This was the brain-trust who devised the whole “wait for Obama to make a mistake and pounce” strategy. Well all that bread will help pay down their tab with the ACME corporation.
Spatula
@danah gaz:
Were you looking in a mirror when you wrote this?
gwangung
@GxB: They should bring in Mr. W. E. Coyote for a consult.
He’s gotta be a step up…
Hypatia's Momma
You think this is hard, Ann? Yeah, it’s just interviewing for a job with only one open position (this crazy economy!) and your competitor is: better-educated, more personable, has demonstrated skill for working well with others, has done special projects directly relating to the requirements of the actual postion (before and after getting the job), and understands what a “work ehtic” is.
Yeah, it’s hard. It would be much harder if you actually had to work at this job.
eemom
Not even original. Doesn’t anybody remember Dubya and his “Presidentin’ is hard work”?
dance around in your bones
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
Heh. That’s what we always used to say, back in the day. ‘Ya gotta maintain‘.
ZB IV
@GxB:
Agreed. You’re going to be waiting quite a while for Obama to truly foul up.
There’s a valid Jackie Robinson comparison here. If you’re going to be the first black president, you can’t just be as good as the average president, you’ve got to be better than than the average, by a fairly wide margin.
Turgidson
@trollhattan:
No doubt. He’ll certainly try, though he’ll come off like a total prick when he does. “Yeah, I heard your question. I’d rather lie about how Obama gutted welfare instead, if you don’t mind, Jim.”
Villago Delenda Est
@GxB:
Why past tense?
These guys are busy at this very moment, boldly going where no campaign has gone before, exploring the outer limits, if you will, of FAIL.
They’ve got a month and a half to go! Who knows where they’ll wind up?
There are more pooches to be screwed, all sorts of chickens that haven’t been fucked yet, these guys are just getting warmed up!
mdblanche
What an unpleasant sounding woman. In fairness, she’s probably not used to people she considers the help talking back to her husband.
Turgidson
@KG:
Yeah, but McCain was in the Club. Richer than sin old white guy with a stick up his ass.
These guys just.can’t.handle.losing.to.Obama. McCain managed to pull it together and lose graciously, but I just don’t think Mitt has it in him. Too much of a twit.
pattonbt
@Mark S.: While I dont think he can turn it around, his expectations will be so low and the Village will demand the horse race meme continue, that by the mere fact of showing up he will be deemed “the winner” in more than half the post debate wraps.
That said, I think to the average veiwer he will bomb. He just doesnt have that gift to make a connection and he has no core. The smirks, the stiffness, the needy smile, the smarminess. Just on personality alone, Mitt’s already lost and head to head the difference will be staggering.
My bet is Obama plays it safe. Keeps the jabs to a minimum, doesnt go for any knockout blows and just by using his usual warm persona, walks away with a neat and tidy win in each debate. No drama, no pain.
But I guarantee Mitt’s performance will be graded on the lowest of low curves. Wont make a difference in the big picture though.
ruemara
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: Damn, I immediately guessed Mosbacher and lo and behold, she is a Romney bundler. I have got to cut my politics consumption.
GxB
@gwangung: No doubt, but rocket propelled anvils tend to get the secret service’s attention.
Turgidson
@ZB IV:
Really? He has faults and blind spots the size of elephants, but I always thought Clinton was extremely intelligent. I’m not sure who I think is smarter between him and Obama.
We haven’t had a GOP president as smart as either of them since…hell, Teddy Roosevelt? Honest Abe? I don’t know. Nixon was no dummy, but he was more clever than brilliant. And a lying sonuvabitch of course.
1badbaba3
@Dennis SGMM: There was someone, I forget who it was, who thought we would be greeted as liberators in the Iraq. I think maybe it was in a beauty contest, or some reality show. Anyway, I wonder how that greety, liberatey thing worked out?
AxelFoley
Mine arse doth bleed for her.
GxB
@ZB IV: And that is undeniable. Course I think it’s true for any Dem Pres from now until the GoP-esque party implodes. Given our collective selfish and scared culture – we’re gonna be clinging to guns and gawd until something huge dope-slaps us back to our senses.
@Villago Delenda Est: Now that’s the spirit! I stand cheerfully corrected.
mattH
@Mnemosyne:
Or maybe she’s trying to invoke it through her repetitions of ” how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience”. Oftentimes converts are more deeply influenced by that kinda stuff.
ZBIV
@Turgidson: If I wasn’t drinking I probably would’ve put the “that” in all caps. Clinton is a pretty smart cat. He’s certainly the gold standard of explaining policy to dumb people. I think Obama is even smarter.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@dance around in your bones: ‘
Yep. That word. It means what you think it means.
Ruckus
@YellowJournalism:
LOL
She’s been holding it in for so long that she’s forgotten how to fart. If she ever knew in the first place.
Radio One
I’m pouring out a 40 for Mitt Romney’s Presidential campaign as I type this.
jon
Poor Ann Ofwillard. If only she weren’t just a woman, Gilead’s Own Party could have a real leader.
freelancer
@Turgidson:
You forgot Eisenhower.
GG
I dunno, why didn’t Ann ask Babs for advice about how to handle the plebs? I mean, that evil woman had great PR for years.
JoyfulA
My recollection is that Ann went to live with the Romneys when Mitt went on his extended French trip. She was 16 and to be sheltered. I’m assuming she finished high school at the girls’ finishing school she had been attending.
Did she ever get any further education? I know they married and she lived with him and had babies when he was getting his double masters, but did she get any education of her own while he was getting his? Did she want to? Is she smart enough to have really benefited from her own education or to have absorbed a lot as he studied?
She may just be this very sheltered, minimally educated woman who has little understanding of the real world—any real world that any of us are familiar with, not even the Mormon world, as they’ve spent little time in Utah, just the Olympics. She may be way out of her depth whenever she’s out of her own house.
What can she discuss with anybody on a talk show, at a fund-raising dinner party, or at a reception for a prime minister that goes beyond how swell Mitt is (not in any depth, even that, because she has no one to compare with Mitt)?
I’m writing myself into feeling sorry for the poor little rich woman.
Turgidson
@freelancer:
Ike was a smart cookie, true. He isn’t often described as an intellectual titan exactly, but he did play a starring role in winning a freaking world war and had a solid 2 terms as president, so I’ll give him his due. You can’t do that much awesome with being pretty freaking smart.
AHH onna Droid
@jshooper: Krystal Ball who? Karen Finney is my campaign season crush.
As for Democratic women not getting the love, the Village hate them for having careers and passion about serious things instead of being cocktail party ninnies who can ‘ both sides do it’ because the reigning powers surely won’t affect their lives. There is also the element that resents, envies, fears, or all of the above a strong smart capable woman who knows her own mind and has worked outside the home.
PeakVT
@ZB IV: Clinton is very intelligent. Obama is very intelligent and very self-disciplined.
ABL
@Comrade Mary: Win.
Carl Nyberg
What kinda a man is Mitt Romney to send his wife out to embarrass herself?
Mitt Romney should pay the money and get her the staff she needs to prepare for interviews.
If she’s already gotten the help and it just doesn’t work for her then the Romney campaign should stop sending her out to do media appearances.
She is not helping to humanize Mitt Romney. She seems like an arrogant sociopath and a whiner.
And Romney looks weak sending his wife out to make a fool of herself.
Beauzeaux
@JoyfulA:
She went to Brigham Young University and majored in French with a minor in Religious Zealotry. She graduated in 1975.
It’s not unusual for Mormon women to be educated. The upper class ones, anyway.
kay
I find Ann Romney’s approach to women really off-putting. She seems to have decided that women are looking for a husband in the President, which is just bizarre. The constant references to what we (women) want in a “Guy” are way too personal.
I also think showing empathy and understanding is very different than showing pity. Ann Romney seems to feel sorry for other women, and that’s not appealing, it’s demeaning. I have almost a knee-jerk reaction to what I imagine she thinks are “sympathetic” statements about women; I don’t think she should feel sorry for me.
Randy P
@trollhattan: I obviously wasn’t brought up right because I have no idea what a “nine-piece setting” would be.
Lets see:
Regular fork
Salad fork
Shrimp fork
Tea spoon
Soup spoon
Regular knife
Stiletto
Throwing knife
… that’s eight. What am I missing?
Baldand50
@amk: The game changed.
MoZeu
It’s not like she broke down crying in some diner in the middle of nowhere.
Patricia Kayden
Lady Ann is angry that you people are stopping her husband from being coronated King of all the Americas.
That’s one bitter, entitled woman.
Patricia Kayden
@KG: Is there some rule that he has to give a concession speech? I’ve already believed for a while that if The Bot loses, he will give a very nasty concession speech, where he says that the American people were duped by the “lamestream” media and Obama’s lies. I can’t imagine, given his personal attacks against President Obama, that he will feel the need to give a gracious concession speech.
Why should he? His supporters hate Obama with a fiery passion and he’ll never run for anything again. He has nothing to lose. His unfavorable ratings are already sky high and at that point he and Lady Ann won’t feel the need to grin and bear anything.
jrg
So, her husband picked a zero-sum fight that even a quarter billion dollars in personal wealth can’t win, and she’s whining about it? Jesus Christ – does she think life has been fair for all the middle class people her husband has screwed over?
Have a caffeine free coke and a smile, and shut the fuck up, Ann Romney.
Chris
@Xecky Gilchrist:
Because their worldview demands that all government things be easy and ridiculous shit that their gardener could perform with his eyes closed. If it’s not, then maybe their image of government is flawed. Worse, maybe all those useless government employees they love to sneer at from behind their computers ate actually earning every penny they make.
dance around in your bones
@Randy P: Nunchuk.
zomgitsjesus
Ann Romney: “For once in my life I realize what it is to work for something in America.”
ET
I’m guessing that part of her problem is that she didn’t have any idea how hard this was going to be and this is her frustration bubbling out.
Her life as wife of Mitt has likely been filled to the brim with people whose job it is to make her life easy with little to no effort on her part to make that happen. With also little to no accountability or problems that she personally, would have to deal with.
Running for president is hard and does take work. Even with a campaign staff and volunteers number in the thousands kissing your feet, there are thousands of people on the other side whose job it is to push their candidate and not assist you. Yes there are people in this world that don’t rely on you for their jobs and don’t feel the need to make your life easier.
bcinaz
…and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know how…
Axelrod and Messina probably thank FSM everyday for their luck.
ottercliff
Dear Ann,
You’re right it is hard. And people like yourself and Willard should not have to do anything hard. For the life of me, I can’t understand why you did not simply hire some of the people to do the campaigning and secure the White House for you.
But, most wealthy girl, the White House is not for you. Smallish, old construction, stables removed many, many years ago. Where will Faluca be groomed? No car elevator, in fact no garage to store your precious Cadillacs. I’m sure the servants are absolutely dreadful!
Fly away Ann!
Tonybrown74
Is anyone else having a Gypsy Rose Lee moment whenever she talks about her and her husband’s turn in the White House?
LanceThruster
@Comrade Mary:
I have yet to declare a winner for the internets.
Today is that day.
You win!
kamalokitty
Dear Mrs. Romney: You don’t know what “hard” is.
P.S. Get another job. You’re not qualified to be FLOTUS. You don’t have enough class.
Villago Delenda Est
@Randy P:
Scimitar. For beheading the wretched servant who overfills the water glass.
Captain C
@Villago Delenda Est: Not only that, she’s not acting like they think a BLAH should, i.e. she’s not a mooching, lazy, single mom with problem children who lives to suck off the government’s teat. She’s actually got class, intelligence, and one hell of a husband to go with two great kids, so she’s a danger to their worldview.
steverino
I was struck by Ann saying Mitt would runthe country, rather than lead it.