From Stark
After Democratic political consultant Hilary Rosen contended that Mitt Romney’s wife Ann–mother of five–had “never worked a day in her life,” other key Democrats scurried to try to repair relations with stay-at-home moms.
The Washington Post’s Election 2012 blog reports.
Just a day earlier, the Post’s E.J. Dionne was arguing that Obama’s higher approval ratings among many women, especially the well-educated, put him in a strong position to win the 2012 election using the same political coalition that elected him in 2008. As Dionne sees it, Romney’s efforts to counter Rick Santorum’s popularity among cultural conservatives boxed him into positions on contraception and abortion that alienated many women.
What do you think? Will this Hilary Rosen affair hurt Obama among women voters? Or is it just another one of those transitory events that roars through the echo chamber and then is heard no more?
The big issue with woman will be the same as with man, and it ain’t about contraception nor whether they are stay at home but are they better off now than 4 years ago!
If they lost their jobs (or their husbands) the answer might be no, if they are one of the GSA workers partying hard the answer might be yes!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
1. Hilary Rosen was not speaking on behalf of the Obama campaign, so who cares?
2. Romney’s wife is not a struggling stay at home mom, trying to feed and educate her kids on a shoestring while cleaning the floor on her hands and knees as the children cried for attention. The Romney household very likely did not require any more work from Mrs. Romney above that which she preferred to do.
3. Sure, I admit that people need to find better and more distinct language when they want to talk about being employed outside the home. The word “work” is too ambiguous. But really, external employment is much likely to lead to workplace industrial accidents, back injuries, loss of fingers and limbs, inhilation of toxins, being shot in a robbery, and on average dying several years younger than those who predominantly stay at home as their contribution. These are verifiable statistics. Humankind can not exist without the hard work of homemakers, but external employed work that is carried out by the schedule and needs of the marketplace or a boss, can be more harsh than the legitimate sacrifices of a stay at home parent. Such is the world.
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Just another one of those transitory events that roars through the echo chamber and then is heard no more. As a matter of fact, here’s a story with more legs (and wings and bills): Ducklings Rescued!
Kinda like the boycott of Rush, SL?
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Wives and family of candidates for office should be left out of the argument.
Tempest in a teapot.