Ann Romney wears the big boy pants in the family. Mitt only gets to sashay around in his Harvard-embroidered special underwear.
Besides making fun of the fit and fabulous Michele Obama Right-Wingers claim she dominates Barack, that Michelle is making the decisions, that she commands the President, oh and also that Michelle Obama is fat, ha ha ha! [See my post: Of Derrières, Jim Sensenbrenner, and Conservative Racism] So it would seem incongruous that Mitt Romney is sending out his wife to do his campaign work for him.
Ah, but here is where the Oppressive Misygonist Republicans reveal themselves. Mitt sends out Ann to talk to women, and she reports to him. As Amy Davidson reported in The New Yorker, Mitt said;
She says that she’s going across the country and talking with women, and what they’re talking about is the debt that we’re leaving the next generation and the failure of this economy to put people back to work. She says that she talks to women and they’re concerned about the jobs that their kids are going to get.Last Tuesday on Fox News, Mitt was asked what he will do to reach out to women;
I’ve had the fun of being out with my wife the last several days on the campaign trail. And she points out that as she talks to women, they tell her that their number one concern is the economy.Note that Ann can fill her specific role as supporter and go-between Mitt with women, to talk to them about Hearth and Home but that's it. And that's the subtle difference the Right is going to try to make between Ann and FLOTUS Michelle Obama. The Right is gearing up this performance to play to the bigoted stereotypes that feed their wretched voting base and this hearkening back to earlier days when America was great and blacks and women knew their place, is prime meat.
But, the Right-Wing is clever and what Mitt's advisors are doing is properly setting up Ann Romney to properly draw in female voters for him. But, remember we're never going to see The Full Romney because of the gross excesses and outlandish expenditures of the Harvard educated elitist out-of-touch Romney's would shock so many of the struggling conservative voting base as to cement an electoral landslide for Barack Obama.
Romney trying to get the female vote with his wife won't work.
ReplyDeleteHe can have his wife say whatever she wants and that will not negate, none, women's view of the Republican Party
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My question to Sick would be, what the devil is wrong with you talking directly to women? What bullshit!
ReplyDeleteIt's the classic Patriarchy.
ReplyDeleteAnn Romney is proper woman, subservient to her husband, reporting back to him, and only doing things which befit her gender.
Michelle Obama is dangerous to the Patriarchy because she does things as FLOTUS without consultation.
I did't think Mitt needed his wife's help in the gaffe department. Perhaps they though two Romney's making gaffes was better than one? First Ann didn't consider herself rich, now this?
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