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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August 29th, 2012
7:17 am
Attack Dog:
Been to the vet lately? I belive you’re long past due for your rabies injection.
Call It Like It Is
August 29th, 2012
7:23 am
“Her 5 sons are a chip off the old block, none of them served their Country” And neither did 13 other Presidents, including Obama and Clinton. Also 10 other presidents served but never say any action, so whats your point.
Travis McGee
August 29th, 2012
7:28 am
It can be humorous to watch oligarchs try to identify with working class stiffs. They get a hernia bending over backwards trying to find an area of commonality — and most of the time it’s such a stretch it’s just plain comical — five boys in a 20 room mansion on a rainly day can be a real problem.
Breast cancer and M.S. are terrible diseases and create havoc in marriages and families, but are considerably easier to handle with a $250 mil net worth scattered in tax havens around the world. These same issues involving people with working class incomes and inadequate or no insurance coverage is more the rule — and these arrogant elites could care less about them as demonstrated by their lack of ideas for a post-Obamacare scenario.
The Republican Party is bereft of ideas regarding the economy, unemployment, healthcare, and foreign policy. They just want to sing another verse of the same old hymn, but thinking sinners ain’t about to be convinced by the same tired old sermon.
Old Hippy Tea Partier
August 29th, 2012
7:43 am
lefties demonize Romney who made lots of money in the private sector, paid taxes all along the way, profits went to pension plans, endowments, etc. sold the company, paid taxes again, 15% capital gains, thats the law, saved lots of businesses, created thousands of jobs…. Obama is spending our tax money pay on backs to Chicago-style political operatives , lobbiests, union thugs, etc… Unemployment is way UP !!! no hope and only and alittle change left
Call It Like It Is
August 29th, 2012
7:59 am
Always amazes me how the left demonizes success and wants a pauper for President. Yet time after time they in turn will elect millionaires over and over again but that’s okay. Its okay for a democrat to be successful in business but not a republican? The so called saviors of your party, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy was hereditary millionaires, which means they got all their money from their daddy. In fact every single democratic President elected in the 20th century was a millionaire before he took office.
Destin Dawg
August 29th, 2012
8:10 am
Bain Capital with private investment employed thousands, generated profits, and paid taxes…..saved businesses like: Clear Channel, AMC Ent., Burger King, Burlington Coat factory, Dominos, Dunkin Donuts, Guitar Center, Staples, Toys R Us, Warner Music, Bloomin’ Brands, Outback, etc…… Obama wasted billions of YOUR tax $$$$ on Political paybacks… Solyndra, Ener 1 Beacon Power, Abound Solar, eastern energy, Spectra Watt, Amonix…. ALL were Obama contributors. ALL went bankrupt !!! Vote with your brains folks !!!
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 29th, 2012
8:11 am
Ann Romney hit a home run as far as I am concerned..will be nice to have true class back in the first ladyship , have not had that since Laura Bush.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 29th, 2012
8:13 am
Destin, asking obama’s base to use their brains is a physiological impossibility..if they had a brain, they would already be anti obama and pro Romney!
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:14 am
destin,
Judging by what the empty suit candidate ’saved’ it is obvious the Country would have been better off without the interference of Bain Capital.
Why are you people so afraid of the impending reality of alternative energy? Are you that ‘dependent’ on the dividends from SouCo, paid by the sweat of your neighbors?
Destin Dawg
August 29th, 2012
8:15 am
Obama, the Great Divider, has no record to run on.. economy is getting WORSE after 3 1/2 years…. so its class warfare !!
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 29th, 2012
8:15 am
@Her 5 sons are a chip off the old block, none of them served their Country
Barry CHOOM hussein soetoro obama has not served any of his countries, Kenya, Indonesia, or the United States, in any capacity either,,,pot meet kettle
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:18 am
destin,
Is math that difficult for you?
Have you forgotten the 8 year slide that was the bush depression?
Geez, I’m hiring people again!
I’m looking forward to returning to Clinton Era prosperity during the SECOND TERM!
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:19 am
The only thing sadder than Ms. ro(money)’s speech was the psychotic babble from Governor christie.
A man who is still taking credit for a ‘recovery’ that never happened in his state.
Funny how you guys decide who is a ‘leader’.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 29th, 2012
8:20 am
There is no economic reality to solar energy ever being a major backbone component of the national grid because it is the single most inefficient and load inconsistent (if solar is 50% of production say on the gulf coast this week, you are sitting in the damn dark because its cloudy and will be for days and battery storage is simply not anywhere near where it would have to be to be technologically for it to run even a small community for more than a few hours) source of energy of those that constitute more than 1% of energy production. People are not going to alter their lifestyle for some eco nut’s fantasy.
cc
August 29th, 2012
8:23 am
Even the minds of the hopelessly simple libs should be able to grasp the fact that the economy is NOT getting better. What we have ISN’T working! It’s time to try something else!
There, I got that out without mentioning ’socialist’, ‘communist’, corrupt Chicago-type thugs or the Kenyan!
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:23 am
trisha alabama whatever
What a sad and backward looking place it must be inside your head.
Even Ga Power has abandoned their decades long chant of ‘it’ll never work’ for Solar Power in GA.
And, by the way, Solar is just one of the myriad of methods becoming more efficient on a daily basis and eliminating much of the need for the ever present ‘grid’.
Do you really like mercury vapors from coal combustion in the air that much?
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 29th, 2012
8:24 am
But mentioning ’socialist’, ‘communist’, corrupt Chicago-type thugs AND the Kenyan! does help to explain WHY the economy is NOT getting better…
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:24 am
cc,
I’m glad you cannot make a statement without invoking irrelevant and asinine monikers.
Did you read yesterday’s Case-Schiller numbers?
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:29 am
cc,
By the way, I really would like it if the Socialist part was in some tiny way true.
Whatever it takes to get beyond the money wasted on offshore military adventures and teaching our children there is much more of importance in the world than wealth worship.
Yep, Socialism is a Good Thing!
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 29th, 2012
8:33 am
honested.. as someone who designs specialty high voltage switching transformers ( much of it for the Asian coal Industry..they are not abandoning coal in the next 50 years no matter what harm you inflict on this country with your eco extortion..and all GHGE’s are global not local), I know of what I speak but do not take my word for it..SOLYNDRA’s CTO has even said their business model failed because the economics of even shifting large scale to off-grid residential packaged solar, does not scale and ROI is still in the 25-30 year range.
cc
August 29th, 2012
8:34 am
honested:
No, I have not read the Case Shiller numbers yet.
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August 29th, 2012
8:37 am
honested:
“Yep, Socialism is a Good Thing!”
There isn’t any need for further communication . . .
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 29th, 2012
8:39 am
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors — between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth.I come to you to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it for YOURSELF…
God Help me, I do Love it so!
JANICE
August 29th, 2012
8:40 am
Am sure she and her speech will be tore apart, however, thought it was real. So they have money, so does the currentt President and his wife. A great deal of people have money, deal with it. I would just like to have someone proud of my country and not just somettimes. Thought she did a good job,. No person who is elected will do everything right for all people, but if they can stand tall and build up America, that is half the battle.
cc
August 29th, 2012
8:41 am
TrishaDishaWarEagle:
Some folks are just beyong redemption. They have invested themselves in the beliefs of socialism and communism, or they are too stupid to know what socoalism and communism are and know too little history to understand the results of such governments.
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:43 am
trisha-alabama-whatever
I’m glad you have a job!
But the deflection doesn’t change the fact that in this backward little state, we don’t even have the option of taking full advantage of the alternative generation options available in more civilized parts of the country because of the strangle-hold exerted by our monopoly power generator.
NOBODY is suggesting a next day payoff. It does take time and if you get outside much you may have noticed that the sun does present itself here on a very regular basis.
Also, I’m glad you just mumbled a little about the Solyndra business model and not about their superior collection technology, which we will be buying back from the Chinese in the not-too-distant future.
Hold onto the past, it suits you.
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:44 am
cc,
‘they are too stupid to know what sosoalism(?) and communism are’.
Spoken by a practitioner of the those who have no idea!
Julia
August 29th, 2012
8:54 am
this woman has trotted out MS, cancer, & now a miscarriage, all in an effort to do the impossible, make her husband seem human. oh, maybe to the other 1%, sure, but to the rest of us…i cannot say it here in this forum. and she is as bad as he is, nothing would make Lady Ann seem like anything other than the arrogant, elitist, entitled woman she is.
cc
August 29th, 2012
8:55 am
TrishaDishaWarEagle:
Re my 8:41 AM post
“socoalism” should read “socialism”
AnotherFormerGeorgian
August 29th, 2012
8:56 am
”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.”
So wait, the guy who’s been preaching that the government can’t solve all our problems… is going to solve all our problems, just as soon as he becomes part of the government…
My head hurts…
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:56 am
Julia,
I guess she realized they will have to hire more ‘help’ after November’s stunning loss.
honested
August 29th, 2012
8:57 am
Has debbie dooley taken credit for last night’s speeches yet?
Pamela
August 29th, 2012
8:58 am
She is a complete idiot! She is also uneducated. She looks so evil. What’s up with her smooth face and EXTREMELY wrinkled neck? She creeps me out!
I am PROUD of Michelle Obama. She is a BEAUTIFUL First Lady and VERY educated.
Also why did Mrs. Romney feel the need to say ‘We love Women?’..that made absolutely NO sense at all! Did anyone notice not once did she say that they love America? No you didn’t.
On the outside of all that Mitt is NOT the answer for America at all. He said he will get what 3 million jobs if he is (God forbid) elected? Yeah he will get those jobs overseas..just like he did with Bain Capitol. He has YET to show his taxes BEFORE 2010…he has YET to say ANYTHING that makes sense…he is NOT the answer for America.
OBAMA 2012!!!!
cc
August 29th, 2012
9:04 am
Julie:
“arrogant, elitist, entitled woman”
What a crock! She certainly isn’t arrogant, but she is confident. She never gave the impression of feeling superior, or “elitist”. She is “entitled” because her husband (with her support) educated himself and worked hard to achieve financial success.
Dissatisfied with your station in life? MOST people have lives resulting in the choices they have made. Sorry if your choices weren’t as good as you might like . . .
The Truth
August 29th, 2012
9:06 am
Wow, what a pathetic Republican convention. The GOP Chairman and Speaker of the House get booed by their own party during the coronation of the chickenhawk draft-dodging Romney. I saw about three black ’spots’ in the audience. I wondered how much they were paid, or maybe they work for Herman Cain. The Las Vegas book still has Obama winning, and they NEVER lose…
td
August 29th, 2012
9:13 am
I see you libs are trying to spin some kind of fairy tale about the Mitt and Ann Romney and I can also see that you did not listen to Ann’s speech. They were just like everyone else that has been successful. Got an education, struggled in the beginning to stay afloat, worked hard and then sacrificed and worked harder to get a company started and then worked even harder. Nothing was handed out to them, they did not depend on the government for handouts and they did not become victims of destiny and blame racism or religious bigotry or being the victim of being conservative in a liberal state. They just worked harder.
The work paid off and now they are living a well deserved life because they worked hard.
td
August 29th, 2012
9:15 am
AnotherFormerGeorgian
August 29th, 2012
8:56 am
”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.”
So wait, the guy who’s been preaching that the government can’t solve all our problems… is going to solve all our problems, just as soon as he becomes part of the government…
Yes, Mitt is going to work hard to get the government out of the way so that you can be successful and independent. To be dependent on government is a way to ensure no independence.
Ronald Reagan
August 29th, 2012
9:15 am
We need another President like George W. Someone who can manage our country out of the Barry H. disaster.
td
August 29th, 2012
9:18 am
The Truth
August 29th, 2012
9:06 am
Yes there is about 10% of the African American population that has been able to shed the yoke of the white liberal elitist plantation to become free and independent. You will see the other 90% still in their chains next week at the DNC convention.
333
August 29th, 2012
9:22 am
I would vote for a good God fearing man, actually raised in the USA, rather than a distant, foreign mystery man with a Fascist/Socialist agenda anyday.
Turkey Slayer
August 29th, 2012
9:29 am
Mr. and Mrs. Romney are good Americans who believe in the American dream, not like Hussein’s dreams of my Father. What a wonderful day it is today to have honest hard working American’s running for the presidency. I am so proud that we have an honest man on his way to the Whitehouse.
Atlanta Native
August 29th, 2012
9:36 am
What the Republicans did to Ron Paul – by creating a new delegate ruling on the spot for the sole purpose of shafting RP’s representation at the convention – is enough to make anyone have second thoughts about voting for Romney. Read this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-koerner/ron-paul-republican-convention_b_1838617.html
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August 29th, 2012
9:39 am
Fellow conservatives, the libs see their impending defeat just as we do; they just don’t want to admit that it is coming! They know the Kenyan has damaged this country and continues to do so. Libs revel in their masochistic desire for the rapidly approaching dim defeat. They can then do what they do best; protest, demonstrate and generally make fools of themselves.
Losers love losing!
Trizzle
August 29th, 2012
9:41 am
I can’t stand presidential election time. The lies, the hateful ads, the jabs here and there. We NEVER have any outstanding candidates. Then, when whoever gets elected enters the house, All the BROKEN promises start coming out. Moving out of the country is looking better and better each day.
cc
August 29th, 2012
9:42 am
Atlanta Native:
When I want to read fiction, I always go to the ‘Huffington Post’ – after first checking ‘Move On’ and ‘Media Matters’.
double
August 29th, 2012
9:43 am
Ain’t a Mexican Jumping Bean one that flops around in all directions?We need to stay the course.
cc
August 29th, 2012
9:44 am
Trizzle:
Good-bye! Don’t forget to remounce and leave your passport!
Unfreakinbelieveable
August 29th, 2012
9:44 am
gw: stay the course obama? i’ve been laid off twice during obamas reign……….top level mgmt. jobs are not easy to find. i have worked at doing painting jobs to support my family and STILL pay for my 2 kids college education……..i chose NOT to go on unemployment. the last thing this country needs is another 4 years of the community organizer. he has done nothing while president but at least obamas consistent b/c he did nothing as a “community organizer” (whatever the hell that is) and did nothing as a senator.
fun girl
August 29th, 2012
9:45 am
Republicans: have yall heard from Herman Cain lately? lol nuff said!
oldtimer
August 29th, 2012
9:46 am
Ann Romney did a great job and will make a great first lady…..