Mitt Romney hits campaign trail as wife Ann says 'time for the grown-up to come'
Source: Newsday
Lifted by a show of Republican unity that once seemed so distant, Mitt Romney plunged into the presidential campaign's final 67 days focused more than ever on jobs and the economy, and depicting President Barack Obama as a well-meaning but inept man who must be replaced.
"America has been patient," he told the nation. "Americans have supported this president in good faith. But today, the time has come to turn the page."
Ann Romney made the rounds of Friday morning talk shows to pronounce her husband the right man to fix a troubled economy, and predicted that argument would win over women voters who haven't voted Republican in the past.
She said women tell her: "It's time for the grown-up to come, the man that's going to take this very seriously and the future of our children very, very seriously," Mrs. Romney said on CNN. "I very much believe this is going to be an economic election, and I think a lot of women may be voting this cycle around in a different way than they usually are, and that is thinking about the economy."
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Besides insulting President Obama (at least she stopped short of calling him "boy" though it's implied if she's saying he isn't a grown-up), she's insulting women, saying that if they're thinking about the economy, "a lot of women may be voting this cycle around in a different way than they usually are."
And this snotty daughter of privilege (borrowing a newspaper description of her from an earlier campaign) is supposed to be Mitt's "secret weapon"?
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)sounds like a plan a 'grown up' would make
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and this woman finds her a little too princessy for my taste.
This woman can see right through her - and her husband. Fortunately, I never have (and never will) vote for a Goper. I KNOW what they stand for - greed and more greed. period.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Norman Goldman says the GOP stands for Greedy Old Pigs (OK- I love pigs and they're noble animals, but I get the metaphor).
Ann Romney and her ilk just sicken me. She and Mittens are just a couple of dead-eyed predators. Dog, I can't stand them.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)She's like a rich Church Lady.
ann---
(1,933 posts)No, she can't because she feels that she IS superior to "us people."
Cha
(295,899 posts)after I read Anngry's latest lies.
WHERE ARE YOUR TAX RETURNS, ROMNEYS? YOU WANT THE JOB SHOW US YOUR TAX RETURNS AND STFU ABOUT BEING ADULTS. YOU'RE CRABS.
William Seger
(10,742 posts)If you believe that the problem with the economy is that rich people aren't rich enough, then the Republican Feed The Greed agenda is the perfect solution.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)Stewland
(163 posts)In the last three decades we have seen the slow but steady rise of the very rich and powerful. If elected this Romney/Ryan ticket would be a train wreck compared to what has come before. A man who can't honestly answer questions as to just what policies he would follow should lead the average person to question why. We are at a crossroads and a turn to the further right is hardly a workable solution. The GOP has become very fascist in its policies and tone. Question is how to turn this mentality on its head? This country has become a corrupt and dysfunctional mess and it will take a lot of work to change it back to its former glory.
highplainsdem
(48,718 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)As they've shown in nearly four years of Obama leadership, the GOP simply refuses to discuss, let alone negotiate. They'd rather ride the raft right over the falls.
uwep
(108 posts)Romney keeps harping on how bad it is now and Democrats allow him to get away with it.
Every day there should be information put out in the mainstream media reminding the public
about the party of "NO".
Talking among ourselves does little good.
Someone needs to compile a list of the filibusters that the republicans made that put us in this situation.
The biggest culprit in getting this message out is CNN and in particular Wolfe Blitzer. He is a partisan hack ever since Bill Clinton would not kiss his ass.
Channels like Current and MSNBC are perceived as liberal and many independents do not take the news from these channels seriously.
NPR is so frightened of the republicans because of the threat of funding loss that they cave most of the time and when some of the news casters appear liberal, they get fired.
The republicans and their campaign of intimidation and threats are sniffling the news media, along with their voter tactics and the war against women's health. They make a joke out of a woman's attempt to do the same to men.
At one time, I view some republicans as creditable. Now there is not one that I have any respect for.
Come on liberals, progressives, and Democrats, we are the only voice the middle class and the poor have.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)It was insulting then.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)He talked in 2008 of returning adult supervision to Washington (though with rather more justification).
Cha
(295,899 posts)Romneys try to steal everything good and project their shite on to the Dems..mainly President Obama.
Their high powered grifters. It ain't pretty.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Let's not get sidetracked over who's using what line.
That's not the point.
The point is: Who's telling the truth?
Monk06
(7,675 posts)DallasNE
(7,392 posts)She seems to cherish making things personal rather than about policy and shown by calling Obama an "inept man" and not a "grown-up". She is like fingernails on a chalkboard with a mouth that never stops. And how noble of Mitt Romney to hide behind your skirt. What a shameful family.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)It's not. It's the "He man woman hater's club" thinking it's adult, and I give them about one day to step back in the swamp. I'd watch them though. They've got momentum and that needs to be interrupted (Eastwood notwithstanding).
1monster
(11,012 posts)frat prat brat boy (Bush) and his bully boy sidekicks Goyle (Cheney) and Crabb Rumsfield).
I fear the Republicans when bearing grown up, adult "leaders."
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Even a 13 y.o. can have babies, Ann, and that's the most of your "accomplishments"
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)everytime I read something she's said..but, I've refrained. Good to see it out there in the open. If anyone ever was ..she's it.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)n/t
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Maeve
(42,223 posts)We were sold this same $#!+ in 2000--the first MBA prez, the adults in charge....and by the SAME F-ING people!!!!!
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Shes close to not being off limits
apnu
(8,722 posts)Isn't that why we were supposed to vote for Bush in 2000, to put the "adults in charge"?
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Your wooden, clueless, overgrown frat boy of a husband doesn't qualify, and neither does his overgrown choirboy of a sidekick.
adigal
(7,581 posts)And why the media didn't investigate that, is beyond me! Exhausted? How the hell can he be president If he is exhausted by campaigning. This is a man who has never done any real work, or worked hard in his life. Pushing money around is NOT work.
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)she needs to put the golden egg back in her pie hole.