Rosen vs Romney: That's what she saidFollow

Aren't you married?

Dirty Hippies Liberals believe in free love.

They're there frequently. Not consistently mind you, but frequent enough. Personally, as someone who's conservative in many areas, I'm not sure how any other conservative can rate someone arguing with gbaji down since almost every argument is asinine.


Actually, there are two individuals I can think of who are polar to gbaji and are often as asinine as he is. You're not one of them though.

Shadowrelm!

I watched a clip of what Rosen said, and I don't see what the big deal is. Perhaps she could have phrased it better, but her point is valid. She's a stay at home mom, while there's nothing wrong with that choice, she certainly isn't qualified to voice her opinion on economic matters when her husband has been bringing home the bacon their entire marriage. Maybe if they weren't multi-centi-millionaires, I'd be able to buy that she might have done some budgeting while raising those kids, and knew what it was like to clip coupons, but I highly doubt that.

Yeah, but you also don't have 200 million+ in your bank account and investments. Someone in your family has to do budgeting, and I wouldn't assume it was the breadwinner, since it could just as easily be the homemaker.

For someone who doesn't have to budget money, and has never worked a job (so they have no understanding of what it's like to know you make less than the guy next to you, just because he has a *****), to claim to have any sort of expertise when it comes to economic matters, is just ludicrous to me.

Not only that, I wonder how much choice is really involved there. Maybe I just don't know that many Mormons, but every single Mormon mother I have ever known, has been a stay at home mom except for one. And in that case, the dad wasn't in the picture anymore. I'm not sure if he died or if the parents got a divorce, but that particular mom was a nurse of some sort. Mormons are pretty conservative people, so I really wonder if there is in fact, a choice for the wives in whether they have a career or if they are stay at home mom's.

I think you're missing the point in why it was a stupid thing to say pigtails.

From some of the comments Romney has made, I'm guessing they hire someone to manage their money. Given the fact that he has no idea what companies he has invested money in and all.

I get that Rosen's comments could be taken as insulting to all stay at home mom's, but she's not talking about all of them, she's talking about Ann Romney. She's hardly an example of your average stay at home mom. I just can't picture her sitting in the kitchen balancing a checkbook like a normal person, I guess. But like I said, I don't think you have to earn money to know how to handle it and budget correctly and all that. I just don't picture a family with that much wealth as needing to budget, so I don't follow how she would have experience in economic difficulties.

But you guys understand why it was a stupid thing to say right?

As someone else in this thread said, attacking a candidate's significant other is a bad move however you slice it. Keep the focus on the candidates, not on their families. It's not like Romney's wife is running for president.

That said, this comment has been taken completely out of context. For the GOP to spin this as "Democrats attacking stay-at-home moms" is laughable.

This is one person making a very ill-advised but ACCURATE comment that Anne Romney has never had to cope with the daily stresses and pressures that most Americans face every single day. Parenting is a difficult task, for sure... but it's not "work" in the sense of a 40+ hour per week job (in which you'll be fired, and your family up a creek, if you violate office politics or get on your boss' bad side). Being a parent has its own set of pressures, but parenting is apples and oranges when compared to not only working, but being the primary breadwinner of a household.

I work 60+ hours a week and never really get a day off. I'm a stepfather to a 14-year-old girl who is soon to be 15, and each day it's very difficult for me to carve out the time I wish I could spend with her... but I can't, because my family depends on me to work. I have to.

I WISH I could have the luxury of being a stay-at-home parent so I could spend more time with my step daughter! And I know there are thousands upon thousands of other working parents, mothers and fathers alike, who feel the same way.

Being financially stable enough to be a stay-at-home parent is a luxury most people will never have.

Yes, it's a luxury. The only time it's not a luxury is when one parent is forced to stay home because they can't afford daycare costs (like the person mentioned in the post above), but again, I'm certain that's never been a problem for the Romneys.



Edited, Apr 14th 2012 12:24pm by Thayos

They become fair game if you don't want to win maybe. They certainly don't become fair game politically.

Yeah, don't become a political advice giver. This is pretty much terrible advice no matter how you swing it