Mittsy Uses His Wife To Detail The Struggle Of Women In This Country

Here's the deal: Mittsy has changed from being a moderate Republican, who favors healthcare and same-sex-marriage, to being, as he dubbed himself, 'severely conservative'.

Here's the rest of the deal: Women, by a margin of 2-to1 favor Barack Obama and his ideas over Mittsy, because, most severely conservative politicians want to focus on birth control and contraception, and abortion rights, and most women know that those issues are personal and not up for debate by a rich white man.

Ann Romney

So, Mittsy has been trying to close the supposed gender gap between himself and Obama this week, mostly by releasing false 'facts' about what the Obama Administration has done to harm women in the last 3-plus years. But then Mittsy says he relies on his wife to tell him what issues are important to women, and where women stand on what a president should be doing.

His wife? Why not, oh, I dunno, ask the women of America? See, Ann Romney is not the poster child of women's issues in this country. She is not the normal woman, working outside the home and struggling to make ends meet while raising a family.

And, to that end, during a discussion on Anderson Cooper 360 about this so-called war on women,  Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen said she agreed with Mitt Romney's claim that women care more about economic issues than reproductive rights, but she felt that Mittsy's use of his wife's perspective shows how poorly the former Massachusetts governor connects with voters because, as Rosen said: "His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She's never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing."

Hilary Rosen

Now, anyone with half a brain, which is, apparently half again more than the Romney Campaign, knows that Rosen meant Ann Romney has never worked outside the home. Rosen was never implying that women who stay at home, working to raise a family, don't actually work.

But, hey, if Mittsy can spin it to make himself look good, then spin away.

First to fire back, Ann Romney, herself, who created a Twitter account just to respond: "I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work." 

Guess what, Ann? No one is saying raising children isn't work. My mother did it, and it was hard work. i know, I helped make it hard for her. But most women, Ann, don't have the luxury of being married to a millionaire so they can stay home and have children and not rely on a second, outside income, to make ends meet.

Rosen was saying that you, Ann Romney, have never struggled like the millions of women who go to work outside the home everyday, and then come home to work inside the home everyday.

And there is a difference between your work, and the work of women who do two jobs a day. Which is something neither you nor your husband understand because you've never taken the time to take that silver spoon out of your mouth,  or out of your ass, to see how "real" people struggle.

Second to fire back, was Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, who also Tweeted about Hilary Rosen and wrongly called her an Obama adviser,. 

Hey Eric? That was a lie and you know it, and knew it, and said it just to make your candidate look good. Hilary Rosen is employed neither by the Obama campaign nor the Democratic National Committee.

She's a woman who works outside the home and has an opinion.

Third to fire back, surprisingly, were Obama's strategists, who instantly disassociated themselves and the campaign from Rosen's comments.

Jim Messina, Obama's campaign manager, also Tweeted [sidenote: does no one actually talk any more?]: "I could not disagree with Hilary Rosen any more strongly. Her comments were wrong and family should be off-limits. She should apologize."

And Hilary Rosen did apologize, saying she has nothing against Ann Romney, but that her comments were meant only to criticize Mittsy use of his wife as an "expert on women and the economy."

So, let me set this queer: What Rosen means is that, of all the people Mittsy could use to make a point about women's concern about the economy and jobs, he chooses a woman who's never had to rely on outside employment to make ends meet. He chooses the wife of a millionaire to tell us how women who work outside the home struggle.

Not really a good idea, Mittsy.

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