You Go Ann; Connect with the hoi polloi: "We're Used To Passing Up Multi-Million Dollar Jobs

[cali]

On Friday, Fox & Friends asked Ann Romney if it was difficult for the couple to turn down a $30 million job offer after Mitt lost the 2008 presidential nomination. Ann, who has been trying to help her husband connect with middle class voters, replied that such job opportunities are commonplace for the former governor and CEO:

BRIAN KILMEADE (HOST): The report is after Mitt Romney lost to John McCain for the nomination, he got an offer from a fund, $30 million a year, go back into the financial world, have all types of success. How hard was the decision not to do that?

ROMNEY: Well, we’re used to kind of passing offers up like that. For us, our life is not about making money. We’ve been very blessed financially. Our life is now about giving back. I always trust that Mitt can always make another dollar. Poor guy, he took no pay when he did the Olympics for three years and no pay when he was governor for four years.

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see the vid here:

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/31/782091/ann-romney-were-used-to-passing-up-multi-million-jobs/

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Unfortunately

most of us are not even used to being OFFERED Multi-Million dollar jobs!!!!

[Progressive dog]

2. He figures he can steal more as President.

Mitt should have taken the job.

[patrice]

3. So very ODD that lady Ann doesn't realize that we don't want lives that she & Mitt have "given back"

to us.

We'd rather use our own collective resources for ourselves and our children.

Go. away. Ann.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Note to Ann:

You probably don't want to refer to Mitt as "poor guy" because his vast fortune allowed him to work without a paycheck and turn down millions of dollars. The real question is, why would Fox and Friends throw a question like that at her? Did they think that answer would make him look good?