Dem strategist Rosen: Ann Romney ‘never actually worked a day in her life’ [VIDEO]

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Please point out anywhere in the script or video segment in which Rosen uses the term “working”.
Here she is quite obviously asked a question about working women (I believe that term is descriptive of women involved in employment) and women’s economic concerns and she responds, referencing Romney current campaign narrative which very obviously places working women at the center of his “War on Women” strategy.
 
But to NEVER have a job? That’s kind of odd. Before she was married? As a teen or during college?

How many people know someone who has simply never worked?
Raising kids is a tough job. So she has worked, simply never outside the home, it looks like.
 
You may be right, but I can’t help thinking the subliminal message is that Ann Romney doesn’t have to work because she is wealthy. I don’t support Romney, but I also don’t support this kind of politics.
I agree with you there. That was, to me, the clearest “attack” in Rosen’s comments and certainly in line with previous ones in this campaign: he’s rich, he’s out of touch. I see no attack on stay at home moms in general.
 
Here she is quite obviously asked a question about working women (I believe that term is descriptive of women involved in employment) and women’s economic concerns and she responds, referencing Romney current campaign comments which very obviously place working women at the center of his “War on Women” strategy.
I don’t have access to youtube.

Is it from the same Anderson Cooper clip on the DC, because working women wasn’t mentioned, at all.

Cooper begins with talking about jobs, women, and the economy overall, and Rosen shift gears, to talk about the wider issue of “the economic well being of their families and the like”, which would apply to ALL women.

We get the summation: Romney doesn’t know what economic concerns women have because his wife isn’t a “real” women, due to her lack of work experience.

And then we have the follow up: Romney “doesn’t connect, because he doesn’t see women as equals”.

Great stuff.

I have no idea why you want to put lipstick on this pig, the Obama camp is already distancing themselves from these comments.
 
I repudiate the notion that Obama “inherited” the economy. He spent $650 million dollars and 1.5 years petitioning the American people to put him in charge of it. He wanted the economy, he begged for it. He needs to shut up and actually fix it, or quit and go home to Chicago.
I agree, and I think most people understand that the blame game will not work this time around.
 
It is really the Democrats “War on Moms.” Must be some residual unaddressed psych problems from childhood 🤷
 
I don’t have access to youtube.

Is it from the same Anderson Cooper clip on the DC, because working women wasn’t mentioned, at all.

Cooper begins with talking about jobs, women, and the economy overall, and Rosen shift gears, to talk about the wider issue of “the economic well being of their families and the like”, which would apply to ALL women.

We get the summation: Romney doesn’t know what economic concerns women have because his wife isn’t a “real” women, due to her lack of work experience.

And then we have the follow up: Romney “doesn’t connect, because he doesn’t see women as equals”.

Great stuff.

I have no idea why you want to put lipstick on this pig, the Obama camp is already distancing themselves from these comments.
Anderson definitely references women seeing jobs coming back more slowly than men in prefacing his question; so how can you say that working women are not mentioned? Who are the women losing those jobs or concerned about those statistics, if not working women?
 
In the context of women’s economic problems - which is what Romney’s own camp has dubbed the real war on women - I don’t see a big problem with that statement other than that she should have probably specified “worked outside the home”. Stay at home moms do work hard as Mrs Romney herself has remarked.

However, the context was not about staying home versus working, the context was familiarity/concern with the economic problems that concern working women. Romney was the one who started that conversation; nice try changing the topic though.
It just highlights the casual contempt “progressives” have for women who have multiple children and feel raising them is the most important thing in life. The idea that a woman has to work outside the home and/or be struggling financially to understand the so called “plight” of women is absolute nonsense.
 
I agree with you there. That was, to me, the clearest “attack” in Rosen’s comments and certainly in line with previous ones in this campaign: he’s rich, he’s out of touch. I see no attack on stay at home moms in general.
With all respect, you don’t see it because you don’t want to.

Even Obama’s campaign manager and senor advisor have called it “inappropriate and offensive” while Messina called on Rosen to apologize
 
We get the summation: Romney doesn’t know what economic concerns women have because his wife isn’t a “real” women, due to her lack of work experience.

And then we have the follow up: Romney “doesn’t connect, because he doesn’t see women as equals”.

Great stuff.

I have no idea why you want to put lipstick on this pig, the Obama camp is already distancing themselves from these comments.
You guys sure are reading a lot of stuff into a simple ‘you can’t speak adequately to what you don’t know’ statement.
 
I agree, and I think most people understand that the blame game will not work this time around.
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Hey the BO defined this whole dust up in 2008 when he said if you don’t have anything to offer the voters you have to paint your opposition as someone to run away from. Well he doesn’t have anything to offer and cannot run on his record so guess what he has got to get the biggest baddest paint brush he can find. It all starts with the “War on Womyn!” And Romney is a rich Mormon to boot.
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With all respect, you don’t see it because you don’t want to.

Even Obama’s campaign manager and senor advisor have called it “inappropriate and offensive” while Messina called on Rosen to apologize
Or because I don’t see any reason for a stay at home mom to be ashamed of never having worked outside the home?
 
It just highlights the casual contempt “progressives” have for women who have multiple children and feel raising them is the most important thing in life. The idea that a woman has to work outside the home and/or be struggling financially to understand the so called “plight” of women is absolute nonsense.
Then maybe you should ask Anderson to rephrase the question Rosen was responding to…He was quite clearly referencing women and the job market, among other concerns. For that matter, so was Romney in his recent comments.
 
Anderson definitely references women seeing jobs coming back more slowly than men in prefacing his question; so how can you say that working women are not mentioned? Who are the women losing those jobs or concerned about those statistics, if not working women?
As I pointed out before, while Anderson begins talking about jobs and the economy, and those concerns for women, Rosen expanded it to all women.

Her comments…

“…women care more about the economic well being of their families and the like” and "…the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we — why we worry about their future.’

…is not just referring to working women, but women in general and their concerns with the economy.

She even said so herself, today:
Well, but this really isn’t about stay at home moms versus working moms. It’s about women in general. I love stay at home moms. I have nothing against them. I support them all the time. Go to CNN.com to see everything I have said about working moms. What the good conversation here is — is does Mitt Romney have a record about women and a plan for women that helps working women and women struggling economically to find a better future? That’s the challenge that I have for Mitt Romney.
mediaite.com/tv/hilary-rosen-defends-her-ann-romney-comment-i-love-stay-at-home-moms-and-this-is-not-about-ann-romney/

It’s one thing to claim Romney is out of touch, economically (which could be said of ALL of the candidates), and entirely another to say “his wife doesn’t know what economic concerns women have because she’s never worked a day in her life”, which is what was said.
 
It just highlights the casual contempt “progressives” have for women who have multiple children and feel raising them is the most important thing in life. The idea that a woman has to work outside the home and/or be struggling financially to understand the so called “plight” of women is absolute nonsense.
When are the Republicans going to point out the Democrat’s “War on Children”? 🤷
 
Or because I don’t see any reason for a stay at home mom to be ashamed of never having worked outside the home?
Rosen didn’t say that stay at home moms should be ashamed, just that they don’t understand the economic concerns most women have (or, at least Ann Romney doesn’t). 😃
 
As I pointed out before, while Anderson begins talking about jobs and the economy, and those concerns for women, Rosen expanded it to all women.

Her comments…

“…women care more about the economic well being of their families and the like” and "…the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we — why we worry about their future.’

…is not just referring to working women, but women in general and their concerns with the economy.

She even said so herself, today:

mediaite.com/tv/hilary-rosen-defends-her-ann-romney-comment-i-love-stay-at-home-moms-and-this-is-not-about-ann-romney/

It’s one thing to claim Romney is out of touch, economically (which could be said of ALL of the candidates), and entirely another to say “his wife doesn’t know what economic concerns women have because she’s never worked a day in her life”, which is what was said.
I agree that she expanded her comments, but in direct reference to the so-called attack on stay at home moms, she linked to what Romney has been saying in his campaign - and Romney, unarguably & very definitively placed the job loss among women at the center of what he refers to as the real war on women. That is simply undeniable.
 
Rosen didn’t say that stay at home moms should be ashamed, just that they don’t understand the economic concerns most women have (or, at least Ann Romney doesn’t). 😃
No, she doesn’t. She links Mrs Romeny’s lack of job experience directly to her husband’s recent strategy of defining the real war: on WORKING women.
 
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