TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross

The comment that started the latest media migraine:

April 13, 2012 @ 8:33 am (Updated: 8:42 am - 4/13/12 )

Ann Romney
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In this March 19, 2012 file photo, Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo)

"His wife has actually never worked a day in her life," CNN's Hilary Rosen playing into this idea that Ann Romney is a Stepford wife.

President Obama immediately condemned the comment as out of line, but it also put Mrs. Romney center stage and gave her a chance to prove just how un-Stepford she is:

"My career choice was to be a mother and I think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. Other women make other choices to have a career and raise a family, which I think Hilary Rosen has actually done herself. I respect that, that's wonderful. But you know, there are other people who have a choice. We have to respect women in all the choices they make."

Ann Romney, on Fox, mentioning choice five times in 21 seconds.

All this jumped out of the radio when I heard it. Because just when the political divide on women seems deepest we suddenly see liberal Democrats like the president scrambling to defend traditional motherhood, and at the same time, the wife of the presumptive Republican nominee is talking choices, choices, choices, choices, choices.

And... compassion:

"I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people who are struggling and that's why we're running."

Does that sound like someone who would let the insurance companies cut off your kids insurance? Does that sound like a First Lady who would just stand by as companies lay off working women in the name of fatter profits? Would she deny family leave to women who need to take care of sick children? Would she agree that every woman should be able to send her children an excellent school, regardless of income?

I don't know about their husbands, but it sounds to me like Ann Romney and Michele Obama could campaign together! We'll see.

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  • delvin wrote...
    some women are far too easily manipulated into thinking that they are VICTIMS
    April 13, 2012 8:02 am
    I've seen this for years. Every time some feminist talks about this years fake issue, birth control, they turn this into denying BC instead of the actual issue of not forcing religous institutions into providing it for free. It is about non poor women getting $10 BC for free. Poor women get BC free. When my wife was far younger she played this women-unfairness card on things that were completely bogus. she later admitted that some of her unfairness claims didn't hold up to scrutiny. Women are getting played all the time-wise up to this-you are not all victims!
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    delvin
    April 13, 2012 1:21 pm
    Your very confused as usual First of all Birth Control is a REAL issue in this election and the actual manipulation is this entire stay at home Moms thing. Your so pathetic you can't sort out the truth from the actual BS, WoW
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  • delvin wrote...
    messiah or moron-I know the stay at home moms thing is a manipulation-DUH!!! For a huge % of women birth control is not an issue
    April 14, 2012 9:18 am
    It is cheap-free for the poor, available all over the place, abortion is legal. You are pathetic to not see that this "war on women" is a bloody political scheme. Also that some women fall prey to this victim nonsense far too easily. To read my post and think I didn't understand that the stay at home mom-not counting as work, was a manipulation shows that YOU AINT TOO BRIGHT!
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    delvin
    April 14, 2012 4:43 pm
    With the GOP wanting the defunding of planned parenthood,and the FACT that over 90% of Catolic women have used birth control your truly dreaming to believe that the GOP is on the wrong side of this issue. And how about those GOP men politicans in Virginia who want vagina probes of women before allowing abortions. Hell yes its a war on women by you pathetic Rightys and its going to lose you the election even if the Unsmployment rate is north of 8%."fake issue"? You are truly lost on this important issue
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  • kata wrote...
    oh please
    April 14, 2012 12:03 pm
    at $8.95 a pack - birth control is dirt freaking cheap. There are women in line with me at the grocery store using food stamps that likely pay more for their texting plan. And for the very poor - there are programs that are free.

    Why on the green earth women would so blithely sell back to the government what women before them worked so hard to win free to earn in their own right - I will never understand.

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  • messiah101 wrote...
    kata
    April 16, 2012 8:53 pm
    But the visit to a MD will likely cost $200+ and needs to be repeated as prescriptions need renewing.Oh your one of those GOPers who always seem to be behind someone at the store using food stamps,did they drive off in their BMW with a load of Filets and Prime Ribs?
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    moves not to the center, but civility ?
    April 13, 2012 8:05 am
    Dave, I'm still not quite sure what to make of your post, except it may be a request or return to civility and understanding - not that either have been in abundance these past 20+ years. .. I still remember that Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil could fight and argue politics and policies all day long until one or the other noticed it was 6PM. Then they went to have a friendly dinner together. .......... Phoney 'beer summits' aside, that would never happen today. But it could be worse. No cane beatings as yet in the floor of the Senate. No duels. .......... What happened here is Hilary Rosen pre spoke what she thought would be Obama's position. To his credit, the President seems to have recognized this was going too far. ....... Perhaps political positions are too diverse for compromises , but at least maybe we can start to play nicer.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    "Does it sound like a woman who would allow the health insurance companies to cut off a sick child's coverage?" Not exactly....
    April 13, 2012 9:22 am
    It sounds precisely like a woman who is married to a man who doesn't believe the government should be regulating whether or not a health insurance company can decide to revoke coverage once a policy holder (or child of a policy holder) actually gets sick and begins to cost them money.

    Unless, of course, that government happens to be in his own home state where insurance companies *are* prevented from canceling policies due to illness, etc. Nothing's too good for the blue bloods of MA. Romney was obviously *for* a reform of the health care system before he was told it would be in his best political interest to be against it.

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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    Not exactly, Chuck
    April 13, 2012 11:06 am
    Romney has been consistent in that he has said this is a STATES' rights issue. The federal government has no business mandating the purchase of commercial products. And even then he says there are things about the MA program he would change if he could.

    Keep in mind that Romney was elected and successfully governed as a Republican in a state that is HEAVILY Democrat. Which tells me he provides a much greater opportunity for bringing this country together than Obama has in his 3+ years in office. This administration has been the most divisive since Nixon. Their attack on religious freedom alone has alienated tens of millions of Americans.

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  • Drool wrote...
    The Federal Government Has Madated Purchases (or acquisition/ownership) of Things Before
    April 13, 2012 8:15 pm
    ..and our founding father signed off on it.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    BTW:
    April 13, 2012 11:08 am
    If anyone thinks that being the wife of a politician isn't "work", they're crazy.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    Seattle Native
    April 13, 2012 1:24 pm
    It seems the meat of this issue has gone Right over your head. Keep Ducking
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  • Drool wrote...
    Women and "Work"
    April 14, 2012 2:23 pm
    Looks like at one time Mitt didn't think a stay at home mom was "work".

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p79jQh-7Blc&feature=youtu.be

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  • Exhausted wrote...
    It's absolutely no surprise
    April 13, 2012 11:50 am
    That Chuck & Dave heard the same thing & it's expected of them to find something wrong with the way she defended herself. After all She is Not Michelle Obama(who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. The Romney's had to WORK for their own spoons!!
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Back to exhausted....so are you stating that Romney *does believe*
    April 13, 2012 12:14 pm
    the government should regulate whether a health insurance company can arbitrarily revoke coverage simply because a policy holder gets sick?

    It's sure hard to get a bead on the right wing version of health care reform...

    And as far as "states rights" go, isn't one of the fundamental elements of the Conservative (non)proposal for healthcare (non)reform supposedly to allow the sale of health care policies across state lines? As soon as there is interstate commerce, that is either regulated by the FEDGOV, or it goes completely unregulated.

    I'm confident the "completely unregulated" choice would be the most popular among the majority on the right. So, instead of a Washington-based BIGHEALTHCO telling you that after 40 years of paying premiums you're out on your butt because you "chose" to come down with brain cancer- you'll simply get the news from some outfit down in Walton, Arkansas.

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  • Drool wrote...
    Michele Obama Born With Silver Spoon?
    April 14, 2012 2:27 pm
    Please cite your sources. Also please tell us about Mitt's struggle paying back his student loans and his problems getting a home loan (dad provided it).
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  • kata wrote...
    a case of mistaken identity politics
    April 13, 2012 11:50 am
    The only question is how long the media will shake it like a terrier with a dead rat before they drop it.
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  • talking wrote...
    Really Dave?
    April 13, 2012 12:09 pm
    What insurance companies cut off insurance for kids just for the sake of being kids? I hope you are not talking about keeping these "kids" on the parents plan until their 26? When is a kid not a kid anymore? My gosh. Lay off "working" woman for the sake of profits? What's a working woman Dave? Isn't anyone with a job a working person? Nice profile. Why else would a company or govenment lay off someone? Of course any woman or man wants to and should be able to send their children to the best schools. What a stupid question. Don't play dumb Dave. You know it's about who's going to pay for it. That's the issue and you know it. Why don't you ask that question instead?
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  • vashonmatt wrote...
    No wonder North Korea's rocket didn't work...
    April 13, 2012 12:17 pm
    The launch code was "Ann Romney."
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    The Dear Leader Demands
    April 13, 2012 6:14 pm
    An apology
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  • talking wrote...
    Chuck
    April 13, 2012 12:20 pm
    Where are you getting all this revoking health insurance when a kid gets sick crap? Do you have some policy wording or something that backs all this up? Or is this just some wishful hypothetical BS? Just wondering........... You seem to be very afraid of the private sector and very comforted to have the government (especially the fed's) tell you what to do, how to feel and what to pay.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Are we all raeding the same Dave Ross Story ???
    April 13, 2012 12:41 pm
    You know, I didn't quite figure this one out either, EXCEPT I am re reading and detecting a tongue placed firmly to cheek. .........................FACETIOUS is the word I am looking for. .. I'll leave it at that as it looks like a lot of bloggers will not have the slightest idea of what Facetious means.
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