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

JSG wrote: Who said my definition is the only definition? It's my opinion. This is a message board. We all have opinions. No one opinion is any better than the rest.

That includes yours.

The chicken shi*t fallback. So nothing you post here is facts, just opinions. I can go with that.

Thank you.

The fact remains that Ann Romney stated that she chose to stay at home to raise her children. So do other women with lower incomes. Unfortunately for many of those women, if the marriage doesn't work, they're up the creek without a paddle. They don't have the experience to get a decent paying job in the workforce, or the contacts to do so (oh, yeah, we need someone who speaks French and has no other work experience except staying home and raising the kids), or a decent amount of child support and alimony to raise the kids at the same level of income as before the divorce.

Romney has her safety net. If Mitt and she had kept her out of his campaign as a model of motherhood and wifery, then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Bush's wife worked as a librarian but she wasn't touted around as the great mother, wife and the be-all understanding potential first lady who could empathize with the women of America.

GOP against women? Yeppers. Look at what the AZ gov just signed into law, no abortions after 20 weeks, with maybe a nod here and there to some exceptional circumstance. Very few women seek abortions after 20 weeks without some medical reason.

I never attacked Sarah Palin for "working outside the home"...I attacked Sarah Palin because A) she is stupid, and she didn't "work" at all...She quit halfway through the office she was elected to.

JSG wrote: Who said my definition is the only definition? It's my opinion. This is a message board. We all have opinions. No one opinion is any better than the rest.

That includes yours.

It is not a game to present facts -- and I love it when my opponent refuses to even try to address them. Better than an admission.

2wlady wrote: The fact remains that Ann Romney stated that she chose to stay at home to raise her children. So do other women with lower incomes. Unfortunately for many of those women, if the marriage doesn't work, they're up the creek without a paddle. They don't have the experience to get a decent paying job in the workforce, or the contacts to do so (oh, yeah, we need someone who speaks French and has no other work experience except staying home and raising the kids), or a decent amount of child support and alimony to raise the kids at the same level of income as before the divorce.

Romney has her safety net. If Mitt and she had kept her out of his campaign as a model of motherhood and wifery, then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Bush's wife worked as a librarian but she wasn't touted around as the great mother, wife and the be-all understanding potential first lady who could empathize with the women of America.

GOP against women? Yeppers. Look at what the AZ gov just signed into law, no abortions after 20 weeks, with maybe a nod here and there to some exceptional circumstance. Very few women seek abortions after 20 weeks without some medical reason.

Well, Ann Romney risked just as much as that single mom. If she had married Newt or John McCain, she would probably have been kicked to the curb when she developed cancer and/or MS.

This kerfuffle is good for about 3 days... Then women will start looking at the state-by-state war that the right-wingers are waging, and the GOP will be right back where they were...In fact, the number today is 19%...not 18%....

Way to go, Gov Etch-a-Sketch....

How can Obama understand 99.99% of Americans, the people who didn't get to go to Harvard?

Romney went to law school at Harvard. So have a number of presidents, including Bush the Younger. Harvard has educated more U.S. presidents than any other university. Yale University has produced five U.S. presidents, with George W. Bush counting for both Harvard and Yale. Lots of people go to Harvard. What's your point?

JSG wrote: Romney went to law school at Harvard. So have a number of presidents, including Bush the Younger. Harvard has educated more U.S. presidents than any other university. Yale University has produced five U.S. presidents, with George W. Bush counting for both Harvard and Yale. Lots of people go to Harvard. What's your point?

The whole idea that if you weren't in the same circumstances, you can't have empathy. I remember in 1992 when Republicans were saying Clinton can't be CINC because he never served.

Some African Americans were calling out Obama in 2007 that since he didn't grow up in a African American family, he couldn't empathize with the black experience in America.