I thought the comment by Ann Romney belittling Obama by saying voters wanted a “grown up” for President was a nasty cheap-shot. Of course this is a tough campaign but the guy is the President, he did take out Bin Laden, he did do some big things (healthcare for example, whether you agree with the outcome or not), and he did inherit a huge mess from Bush.
I know she wants her husband to win, but man, this is just offensive.
You have to feel sorry for Ann … for the first time in 63 years, the princess might not be getting what she wants! So naturally she isn’t handling it well.
Ann Romney is the epitome of condescending, entitlement mentality of the rich.
They’ve “given” “us people” enough of their personal financial information, so we can just shut up now.
She’s sure the Republican message “would resonate well if [Latinos] could just get past some of their biases.”
Their supporters are “here because they ‘get it.’”
If women and Hispanics “that (sic) would naturally be voting for another party wake up and say, ‘You’d better really look at the issues this time.’” Yeah, “this time,” because they’ve been blind, ignorant fools every other time. They just need to “wake up.”
As Ruth Marcus of the Baxter Bulletin puts it, in reference to her pandering to women in her RNC speech, “I understand that the Romney campaign faces both a gender gap and an opposition that has gone overboard with the ‘Republican war on women’ motif. But, is the best way to counter this to turn women into another interest group that requires intensive stroking and assurances about how special they are? It was meant to be flattering. It came off, to me anyway, as objectifying and demeaning.”
Yep, that’s Ann; objectifying and demeaning. You go, girl!
“Grown-up”, in this context, means cynical bastard who is only out for himself.
You liberals are so damn naive. It takes a grown up to be a puppet of corporate interests.
I guess congratulations are in order then. They are both officially grown ups. 
It’s also a tired, worn-out rhetorical conceit, that she just lifted from Dick Cheney–and even Fox News, who tried to imply the same thing about the Clinton Administration when Bush moved into the Whitehouse. I don’t know why everyone is praising her speech. She was about as weighty as a sponge cake.
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I’m as hard core, anti-Repub, pro-Democrats as they come, but I’m tired of this one. I think it would have been better undersold. It wasn’t the royal fuckup of Bush’s Mission Accomplished, but yes, he authorized the assassination of the Most Wanted Guy.[/hijack]
I think they should give Ann more talking time. She’s so far out of touch with the common woman, that sooner or later, she’ll say something even stupider.
She’s a silly little bitch who isn’t handling the public spotlight very well. She needs to go back to being the spoiled CEO wife she was born to play.
I agree that she should get more spotlight time. She can’t avoid saying you people. She’s bound to continue to show how much better she believes the is than all the rabble.
Political success is mostly a beauty pageant. I picked Romney as the nominee a year ago since he was the most qualified to be a weather man. Her speech made them sound human, and that’s enough for some people.
(Not that her comments about their tax returns aren’t horrifying but this one speech she did well politically)
What are you talking about? She used to eat tuna and macaroni off a ironing board in the kitchen of her basement where they had to live off Mitt’s stock portfolio.
The biggest problem with the comment is that it just about pegs out my irony meter! The idea that the current Republicans on the national stage are “grown up” is just too silly for words.
Ann is quite gifted at pegging the irony meter though. I like this comment from her in the Republican convention propaganda film on Romney:
If that is not an eloquent statement for why Americans deserve to have a full and open accounting of the tax returns of a person whom they are considering electing to be President, I don’t know what is. (Although, apparently what Ann actually meant is that we are supposed to look at the RNC-produced video of how Romney has supposedly lived his life, not look at anything that might be revealing of how he has actually lived their life, like how he has handled his finances.)
I don’t know where you get that. Obama didn’t rubber stamp the Keystone XL pipeline and he wants stiffer regulations on the finance industry. He works with corporations because they’re a major part of the economy, but he certainly doesn’t kowtow to their excesses like Romney will.
Ann Romney needs to go back in the kitchen and tell her chef or maid to make me a sandwich
The transcript of Ann’s speech. 
Oh, hell, it’s out of copyright:
Ann Romney is a liar. Are we really supposed to believe that “all these women who never voted for a republican before” are coming up to her in droves and exclaiming the exact message the GOP is trying to sell? Horsehit.
Sigh.
Yeah, I know. The good ol’ days. 
Ann?
Adults pay their taxes here if they want to live here.
Adults acknowledge their privileges.
Adults have empathy for others.
Adults don’t tell lies about being poor when they were not.
Adults don’t take glee that others don’t have the same luck they do.
The adults are the Obamas not you and that greedy, power hungry, right wing moobat nut you married. STFU and go back to New Hampshire or California or wherever else you have a house. You’re embarrassing even for a Republican Stepford Robo-First Lady candidate.