A Democratic stratetigst is rightly creating a firestorm.
Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen said on Anderson Cooper 360 that Ann Romney was unqualified to speak about the kinds of economic issues facing women in America because she had never “worked a day in her life.”
“His wife has actually never worked a day in her life,” Rosen said on CNN. “She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids? How do we send them to school? And why we worry about their future.”
And it’s the Republicans who are supposedly waging a war on women?
Ann Romney raised five boys and is now a grandmother of 16 kids. Does that not sound like work?
I’ve run into this kind of thing. I’m a stay-at-home Dad who works from home. And I talk to other people and the presumption is that I’m smoking stogies in my bathtub all day while watching my portable television while cramming my cheeks full of bon-bons.
The fact is that caring for kids is just not an acceptable pursuit because our culture doesn’t care all that much about children.
Ann Romney responded to Rosen’s comments by tweeting, “I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.”
Rosen then responded with an in-your-face. She responded by tweeting, “I am raising children too. But most young American women HAVE to BOTH earn a living AND raise children. You know that don’t u?”
What a nasty thing she is, huh? You see, she’s negating Ann Romney’s ability to speak because 1) she’s wealthy and 2) she’s just a stay-at-home Mom.
As you can imagine, Obama’s folks are distancing themselves from Rosen. David Axelrod and campaign manager Jim Messina – both distanced the campaign from Rosen’s remarks, with Axelrod calling the comments “inappropriate and offensive” while Messina called on Rosen to apologize.
Instead of apologizing, she retreated back into the friendly confines of the Huffington Post where bashing stay at home Moms is acceptable.
April 13, 2012 at 7:02 am
RE: whether Ann Romney is qualified to comment on things she hasn't experienced, let us quote Otto von Bismarck: "Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others."
There's these amazing inventions someone should apprise Rosen of. One's called "language", where you can learn about things without having to experience them, simply by other people making certain noises at you. And the other's called "writing", where the noises are written down, so you can learn about the experiences of people who aren't themselves present.
April 13, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I'm a stay-at-home Dad who works from home. And I talk to other people and the presumption is that I'm smoking stogies in my bathtub all day while watching my portable television while cramming my cheeks full of bon-bons.
That's ridiculous! Everyone knows you eat the bon-bons one at a time. 😉
April 13, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Bless Ann Romney, she raised 5 fine men, supported her husband' s ventures, graduated from Harvard studying while nursing a baby, chose to stay home, is battling MS and breast cancer in 2008. may the Lord keep Her safe and healthy!!!!!!
Shame on these people….
April 14, 2012 at 3:20 am
The obssession some people have with how other people choose to live their lives, down to how they rear their kids, what they eat, what drugs they take,etc., etc., etc. continually amazes me. We are a busybody, people pushing envious, covetous culture, characteristics nurtured as necessary for the collectivist state. This feminazi is apparently clueless that women who HAVE to work have to BECAUSE of the managed economy, taxation and Federal Reserve debasing our money…..ALL of which I'm sure she thinks are absolutely necessary….for "OUR" "greater good".
April 14, 2012 at 5:53 am
Keeping busy making a home for a husband who loves me and five boys who call me "Mom" OR laboring for strangers who see me as an expense not as a person and, maybe, supervising other strangers who see me as a wage-slave driving boss? Hmmm. I see now why Ms. Rosen only considers the latter to be "work".
Also, I'm distressed that so many here choose to over-romanticize stay-at-home motherhood and over-estimate its trials. I've had bosses who others described as "babies with the terrible twos" but I could never pick them up and sit them down like a toddler. And I've never worried about being fired by any of my two-year olds!
April 15, 2012 at 1:45 am
Well, her problem is that SAHMs aren't out there making tons of $$$, which is the ultimate function of humans, don't cha know?