Ann Romney: No ’storybook’ marriage
TAMPA — Some passages from Ann Romney’s speech tonight about her husband Mitt, who just officially became the Republican nominee for president:
”I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a ‘storybook marriage.’ Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.
“A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.”
This is a likely closing passage:
”This is the man who will wake up every day with the determination to solve the problems that others say can’t be solved, to fix what others say is beyond repair. This is the man who will work harder than anyone so that we can work a little less hard.
“I can’t tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment:
“This man will not fail.
“This man will not let us down.
“This man will lift up America!”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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cc
August 28th, 2012
10:47 pm
I thought Mrs. Romney’s speech very positive and uplifting, a radical departure to what I’ve become accustomed to hearing for the past four years. Mrs. Romney will be a wonderful First Lady beginning in January, 2013.
Bernie
August 28th, 2012
10:50 pm
I think Christie is really the one who is wearing the Magical Drawers! I can assure they are HUGE too!
Liz
August 28th, 2012
10:51 pm
I’d like to see christie do a cannon ball.
Bernie
August 28th, 2012
10:52 pm
Christie is the Republican Elephant!
Liz
August 28th, 2012
10:52 pm
he looks hungry.
gm
August 28th, 2012
10:52 pm
td
will your President cancel his convention and head down to NO to supervise the cleanup?
Of course he will be there, President Obama believes in saving American lives, not flying over the city and doing nothing, sit back and watch a real Commander and Chief take charge and run the show.
5 hours of bashing Gov and the President at the white convention, lets see how many of these rep gov tommorow beg for federal funds from the President.
gm
August 28th, 2012
10:55 pm
Memo to Ann Romey: you can buy some middle class whites conservatives but you can not buy most Americans who have common sense and you are not going to buy the White house
double
August 28th, 2012
10:59 pm
Td did you have your speakers turned off? Ann Romney first lady 2017.
Bernie
August 28th, 2012
11:00 pm
Tonight after all of Mitts many Lies, we are now hearing its time for the TRUTH, says Christie!
Bernie
August 28th, 2012
11:01 pm
Tonight after all of Mitts many Lies, we are now hearing its time for the TRUTH, says Christie! This was an ambush by CHRISTIE!
InAtl
August 28th, 2012
11:02 pm
Dee says: “I will not vote for Mitt. And, I think as you do about his wife; she whines and is obviously not a very positive person. I still don’t trust him, and now think even less of her.”
She whines how? And what was not positive, and why do you “now” think less of her? You seem a bit short on specifics. BTW, I seriously doubt you’re a republican either.
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:02 pm
I know you libs love Chis Christie! What a motivational and encouraging speech! I’m sorry if you libs didn’t like his union comments, but not REAL sorry!
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:06 pm
InAtl:
You nailed it! She/he didn’t respond to my question, which was pretty smart: I had several ‘follow-up’ questions as well!
‘Dee” is as much a Republican as I am an astronaut!
Bernie
August 28th, 2012
11:08 pm
A Very Disappointing Night for Mitt……Its OVER folks! look for an Avalanche of Lies from Team MITT to compensate for the failure of tonight. Surely, Sarah Palin is on the floor Rolling saying ” You shoulda had ME!”, You shoulda had ME!”
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:17 pm
Bernie:
You’re right, it is over – for the Kenyan and the dims!
Now, take your Magic Underwear to the top of a VERY tall building, jump off and see if you can fly!
Dee
August 28th, 2012
11:18 pm
CC, Have been a repub. since I could first vote at 18 in 1975.
td
August 28th, 2012
11:19 pm
“Victims destiny”= Democrats. This is probably the best definition I think I have ever heard about the typical liberal. Most you libs always claim to be a victim of something, always have an excuse for failure and need the government to bail you out . Life is not fair and you are a victim of racism, victim of poverty or a victim of something else and that is why you can not succeed.
Yes victims destiny is the new term for liberals
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:20 pm
Dee:
Since you were old enough to vote, what Republicans have you voted for as President?
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:22 pm
td:
‘double’ had something to say to you about a teleprompter . . .
honested
August 28th, 2012
11:24 pm
What a disappointing burst of hot air (at least it wasn’t tinged with partially digested cabbage)!
This is the ‘best’ the gop has to offer?
Unhealthy overweight people, mostly caucasian (mostly, mostly, mostly) all cheering to hollow nonsense (blaming teachers and unions in the same breath).
I sense an Obama landslide, a neutralization to the do-nothing teaclown Congress and a lurch FORWARD!!!
Obama 2012!!
honested
August 28th, 2012
11:25 pm
cc,
Before you ask, I have never voted for a repug for any office, ever.
As my grandfather told me, you can’t trust them in an outhouse with a muzzle on.
honested
August 28th, 2012
11:26 pm
Bernie,
How much worse could the failed, half-term governess made things?
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:27 pm
honested:
Drinking again?
honested
August 28th, 2012
11:27 pm
td,
Odd statement. As for me I have succeeded (even during the darkest days of the bush depression).
I’m glad that’s over and we are moving FORWARD!
honested
August 28th, 2012
11:28 pm
cc,
No, how about yourself!
I’m just clear eyed thinking.
Dee
August 28th, 2012
11:28 pm
All up to and including Clinton’s election. After Clinton’s win (our defeat), I’ve voted for a Dem. since. Fankly I have been waiting for my party to bring someone forth worth voting for.
td
August 28th, 2012
11:29 pm
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:22 pm
td:
‘double’ had something to say to you about a teleprompter .
I saw his comment and really thought Chris would have been better served to not use one.
Now every time I hear uuuhm aaaah Ooooobama off the teleprompter it just shows he does not remember the fake image his pollsters want him to take on today.
honested
August 28th, 2012
11:30 pm
cc,
You better get to bed.
Otherwise you’ll miss the am rant radio lie-fest in the morning.
It’s sad when you shoot yourself in the foot and you wonder why you’re bleeding.
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:32 pm
Dee:
If I understand you correctly, you voted for Gore, Kerry and Obama?
honested
August 28th, 2012
11:34 pm
cc,
Dee has a point.
It’s time to bring forth a REAL LIBERAL, a CERTIFIABLE SOCIALIST, a candidate that will heal the world and make you pinheads explode!
Dee
August 28th, 2012
11:35 pm
Yes CC, you remember who ran in each election, that is correct. If as pres. you can’t control your VP, or if you vet an idiot for VP, or if you can’t control the banks to some degree; then you have failed me and my party.
cc
August 28th, 2012
11:36 pm
td:
I never hear all those sounds; all I hear is uh . . . uh . . . uh . . . uh. It always makes me think that someone is earching for the lie when they do that!
td
August 28th, 2012
11:41 pm
Dee
August 28th, 2012
11:35 pm
” then you have failed me and my party.”
If you actually voted for Kerry and Obama then there is no way in h3ll you were ever a conservative. You must have been a RINO and now belong to the party of Marxism.
honested
August 28th, 2012
11:41 pm
cc,
Kinda’ like listening to the same worn lies and tortured invented definitions in 750 every day, after day, after day, after day, after day, after day.
Do you ever at least look out the window?
Dee
August 28th, 2012
11:49 pm
td, I have always been and will continue to be a ‘conservative’. Marxism does have such a nasty ring to it. But when I look a man in the face and believe he is a ‘carnie-act’ I just can’t vote for him. The new ads for him expect us to believe that he is ‘unlikeable’ because he is a ‘CEO’. I am an accountant and can etest that most CEOs have a good bit of something going in the personality dept. They didn’t just get there because for their brains.
jebmonster
August 29th, 2012
1:10 am
What is wrong with all of you? Taco Bell, Kenyans, racism, liars, etc? I have no idea how anyone thinks we are doing better and moving forward. Where does this craziness come from? Just because you want to believe one side or the other does not make it true. Our economy is in a mess, I don’t care if you are a democrat, republican, black, white, poor, or rich. We are in a MESS. We ARE NOT GETTING BETTER and more time on the same path WILL NOT HELP. Ann Romney did a fine job tonight and is a very nice lady…so what, that does not fix the economy. I look at this like I look at picking my doctor, I do not care if he is arrogant or rich as long as he can make me better. He does not have to be likeable to save my life and I will pick competence over friendly any day. I don’t believe in socalism and therefore I will not vote for Obama and I hope that Gov Romney can come across with his promises. You can’t believe one thing you read anywhere by either side or any of the media, but I do know my family is struggling and this Obama way is making it worse.
Attack Dog
August 29th, 2012
5:43 am
Ann Romney is a nice lady, just like Laura Bush. Flashback: “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” How many Dixiecrats know the name of our highly qualified director of FEMA under Obama, who is fully capable of handling whatever Isaac does to the Gulf Coast? Crickets chirping.
Attack Dog
August 29th, 2012
5:49 am
As we near the anniversary of Katrina, let’s give a salute to General Russel Honoré. Dixiecrats tried revisionist history by calling him the “Raging Cajun,” when in fact he is a Hardcore Creole who graduated from an HBCU.
Attack Dog
August 29th, 2012
5:54 am
Obama should take responsibility for $3 trillion of debt. Boehner and McConnell have shirked their for the other $13 trillion, Romney will claim that he has to wait until he is elected to lay out his plan. So what happens to his plan if he isn’t? Do you think B&M will go with it anyway? BTW, whatever happened to McCain/Palin’s economic plan?
Attack Dog
August 29th, 2012
6:01 am
Ann is a nice lady who didn’t have a “storybook marriage. Michelle is a strong woman who has a “storybook marriage.”
Buckhead Boy
August 29th, 2012
6:11 am
I suppose that Janine Turner’s speaking was to represent single moms — by virtue (pun intended) of an affair with a married man? And, Sen. Ayotte, who has never worked outside of government, is the I-built-it-all-by-myself, small business lady due to her husband’s business helped along by her government paychecks and a SBA loan? If I couldn’t find humor in Republican hypocrisy, I suspect that I could cry my face orange too.
Attack Dog
August 29th, 2012
6:25 am
Having MS, cancer, and raising five children may not have been storybook. Having MS, cancer and raising five children, and losing your health insurance and family income after Willard bankrupted your husband’s company, is a NIGHTMARE.
Izzy
August 29th, 2012
6:27 am
Sallie says “Her 5 sons are a chip off the old block, none of them served their Country.”
Uh….neither did your boys Obama and Biden. Oh wait…..that only applies to Republicans.
Buckhead Boy
August 29th, 2012
6:44 am
Izzy, Beau Biden is a Major in the Delaware Army National Guard and served in Iraq in 2008. The President has no sons, and his daughters haven’t reached the age of military eligibility.
MiltonMan
August 29th, 2012
6:52 am
No mention from Mrs. Romney about not being proud of her country until her husband was nominated???
MiltonMan
August 29th, 2012
6:56 am
“Ann is a nice lady who didn’t have a “storybook marriage. Michelle is a strong woman who has a “storybook marriage.””
Ann is classy; Michelle is classless and was ashamed of this country until her clown husband was nominated.
MiltonMan
August 29th, 2012
7:00 am
“Izzy, Beau Biden is a Major in the Delaware Army National Guard and served in Iraq in 2008. The President has no sons, and his daughters haven’t reached the age of military eligibility.”
Since when is military service by the nominee, the nominee’s children/grandchildren, etc. a requirement? I served in the military & I can state that 99% of all fellow service men/women are not fit to be president.
Jack
August 29th, 2012
7:07 am
Mrs. Romney didn’t need tele-prompters. She looked the camera staight in the eye: Character shows up in small ways too. I enjoyed her message and I enjoyed the S.C. Governor’s message. Maybe there’s hope for us after all.
Ronnie Raygun
August 29th, 2012
7:10 am
“This is the man who will work harder than anyone so that we can work a little less hard.” – Ann Romney
Sounds like the GOP is promoting a dependent entitlement society. Just imagine the right-wing hissy-fit if Michelle Obama said that exact same thing.
cc
August 29th, 2012
7:15 am
ebmonster @ 1:10 AM:
Very good post . . .