Ann Romney a rich entitled socialite - yuck, she raises kids

Yeah! She worked! She organized the spring and fall cotillions and a debutante ball one year at the country club..

It was brutal

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

JSG wrote:

2wlady wrote: What a bunch of bull hockey. Anne Romney hasn't experienced juggling housework, full time job, children and husband's needs all at the same time.

Doesn't bother me that she chose a rich guy and stayed home. But Mitt can quit using her for a women's issues mouthpiece. When you walk the walk, then talk the talk.

Exactly. What she doesn't say while proclaiming she stayed at home and raised her kids is how many maids or nannys she had helping her. It's not like she really had to juggle the family budget to make ends meet. She only had to decide which Cadillac to drive when she went out. Mitt already confirmed she had several. Good for her, but don't try to make it sound like it was hard work or comparable to a regular mother raising her kids.

The woman who said this was spot on: "His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we worry, why do we worry about their future."

And I agree, it's a pointless story.

Here jerk-wad... do the math...

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] Her personality as a political wife was viewed as superficial and was a detrimental factor in her husband's eventually losing effort in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts.[18] In one instance during the campaign she was ridiculed for saying that she and her husband had never had a serious argument during their married years.[20] During the 2012 election, some controversy occurred regarding whether she ever "worked a day in her life".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Romney ... d_children

Now shut up unless you have proof that she had maids and nannies raising the kids.

Crickets... JSG runs away.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: [Crickets... JSG runs away.

The left is running away from this. I imagine JSG finally read the memo.

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The Obama camp whizzed by to distance themselves from Rosen’s remarks. Michelle Obama took to Twitter to note that, “Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected.” (Real controversial, Michelle!) Even the president weighed in. "


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/com ... _blog.html

Yeah, the college son of the former chief exec of American Motors and a multi-millionaire Michigan governor was really having a hard time making ends meet after he and his family lived in affluent Bloomfield Hills. Don't make it out to sound like Willard (Mitt) was worried about where the money was coming from. He is a trust fund child.

JSG wrote:
Yeah, the college son of the former chief exec of American Motors and a multi-millionaire Michigan governor was really having a hard time making ends meet after he and his family lived in affluent Bloomfield Hills. Don't make it out to sound like Willard (Mitt) was worried about where the money was coming from. He is a trust fund child.

I'm still waiting for that proof of the nannies and maids. Bet you can't back up your statements.

Obama made a statement...

"There is no tougher job than being a mom," Obama told a TV station in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "And when I think about what (my wife) has had to do, when I think about my own mom, a single mother raising me and my sister, that's work.

"So, anybody who would argue otherwise I think probably needs to re-think their statement. More broadly, I don't have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political candidates."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04 ... nn-romney/

Looks like Lady Jazzer and JSG didn't get the memo. Hi guys and girls... you're behind the curve. The narrative has changed. Your white black Messiah has spoken.

Anne Romney had 5 maids in 2010, and they didn't pay any of them


VICE LORD- 04/12/2012

IRS forms released Tuesday by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign show that despite reporting income of $21.7 million, the couple paid only $20,603 in taxable wages for household help in 2010. This figure was divided among four women: Rosania Costa ($4,808), Kelli Harrison ($8,667), Susan Moore ($2,238) and Valerie Cravens Anae ($4,890).

According to a number of Boston-based domestic staffing agencies, the salary range for a housekeeper is between $20 and $30 an hour, which adds up to an annual salary of $40,000 to $50,000 based on forty-hour weeks and two weeks of paid vacation a year.

But this number is only for one house, and the Romneys have three houses -- a 2,000 sq. ft. townhouse in Belmont, Mass., a 5,400 sq. ft. lake house on 11 acres in Wolfeboro, N.H., and a beach house in La Jolla, Calif., that is undergoing renovations to double its size.

Even if the Romneys avoided spending time in La Jolla in 2010, they spent plenty of time in New Hampshire, with regular visits in the summer from five sons and their families.

Yet the Romneys still paid only half of the lowest range of an average housekeeper's salary, which raises the question of who cleaned the Romney houses the other 50 percent of the time. A Romney campaign adviser declined to respond to questions from The Huffington Post about the housekeeping salaries.

Wouldn't it be nice to learn that the Romneys split up household cleaning between them on days when the housekeeper was out? After all, Mitt Romney was "unemployed" in 2010, as he infamously reminded a group of voters in Tampa, so he had some extra time. And Mitt even knows how to do laundry, according to a photo tweeted Monday by his son Tagg Romney.

The more worrisome alternative is that the Romneys underpaid their household help.

The Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers holds a meeting on the third Tuesday of every month to work towards passage of a statewide Bill of Rights for domestic workers, but so far their efforts have fallen short.

UPDATE: 5:27 p.m. -- At least one of the four women paid for domestic work by the Romney family in 2010 also worked as chief of staff to the executive director of Mitt Romney's Free and Strong America PAC at the same time.

Kelli Harrison was paid wages of $8,667 by the Romneys for personal assistant-type tasks and errands, said a source with knowledge of the situation. Harrison was the most highly paid of the four women listed as domestic employees of the Romney family, and the other three women did not work for the Romney PAC at all, the source confirmed. Harrison was paid for her PAC work with PAC funds.

The designation of household employees is broad, and can include housekeepers, baby-sitters, personal assistants and other house-related tasks. It's possible that the Romney's hired an outside cleaning service to clean their houses and that managed the payroll, but the campaign declined to elaborate on their arrangement. Given the private nature of jobs like these, most high-profile individuals prefer to maintain their own staffs of people who know them well and who they trust.

Another employee, Valerie Cravens Anae, may be the same woman whose Facebook profile indicates that she attended the Mormon-affiliated Brigham Young University. Anae was paid $4,890 in taxable wages for domestic work at the Romney house in 2010.

The campaign declined to specify whether Harrison was still working for the Romney family personally. The other two women listed as domestic employees, Susan Moore and Rosania Costa, could not be located

Five maids.... Just brutal....

Well, this "War on Moms" is going to get ugly... rofllol rofllol

LadyJazzer wrote: Five maids.... Just brutal....

Right... in 2010... the kids were grown and long gone... you idiot.

No kids and they still needed 5 maids? Rough life.