SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

Ann Romney Isn’t Like

The Normal Mom in US
By Victor M Adamus

I’m taking the side of Hilary Rosen, a DNC organizer, who called out Ann Romney as Mitt’s choice of advisor for women’s groups because what she said was true, “Romney never worked a day in her life”.  Granted, raising five boys full time, six if you include Mitt, is hard work.  But it was a choice Ann Romney could make because her husband was in that one percent of households who didn’t have to survive on a second income. 

Ann Romney

What Rosen was saying is a person raised in luxury has to have a hard time relating to the Moms out there in the 95% group that stretch a pay check through the weekend or worry about their job security.  Living pay check to pay check was never a concern to Ann Romney.  If she wanted to gas up the Cadillac to take the kids somewhere, she did.  Buying clothes, taking vacations, getting the boys special tutors for home study, she just wrote a check.  So Rosen is correct in saying what she said.  Ann Romney is not a likely choice as advisor to her husband, a potential Presidential candidate who needs the women vote to win the election.

The war on this issue is between parties.  Anything to distract from criticle issues that the public wants both sides to weigh in on.  The economy is a good example.  But all week this media frenzy over Ann Romney shows voters that more nit picking is yet to come.  Any little tweet will cause the real issues to derail while America listens to talking heads, talking trash, and losing their focus on the debate of issues so criticle to our nation in these times of a recession recovery. 

It’s a slow recovery too.  So yes, women’s issues will be on the table with everything else.  And it wasn’t the Democrats who passed legislation to attack women’s health in 21 states this year.  It was Republican legislators.  It wasn’t the Democrats who introduced the Ryan Plan that essentially kills Planned Parenthood and Food Stamps which some women depend on desparately.  There is a war on women but the one percent do not feel it.

Obama leads the woman vote by 19 percentage points.  This could grow as state legislators alienate women, reduce them to second class citizens, and threaten their voting rights.  These are issues that upset women but I have never heard Romney address these concerns.  He only went on record saying if he’s President, he would do away with Planned Parenthood. 

Those are fighting words for women.  And if Ann Romney wants to act as an advisor she should get on the stick and tell her husband this is a war he can lose by supporting legislation amending what women had won over 20 years ago. 

I doubt she will do that because her head is up there in the one percent lifestyle.  When you have everything you want and need, it’s hard to walk in the shoes of others who are less fortunate.