Hilary Rosen, an adviser to President Obama and the DNC, appeared on CNN to talk about Mitt Romney’s outreach to women in the campaign. She slammed Romney’s wife Ann for being a stay at home mother.
“Guess what, his wife has actually never worked a day in her life.”
That’s what liberals think of stay at home moms, or at least conservative ones.
Ann Romney responded in her first tweet since joining Twitter.
I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.
What she didn’t mention is that she also battled breast cancer and MS while raising her kids.
Rosen went on to send out a bunch of tweets defending herself, while even Obama’s campaign people were telling her to knock it off.
Fun Fact: Rosen was recruited as an adviser by Debbie Wasserman Schultz who suffers from her own foot-in-mouth problems.
Obama advisers have occasionally told her to “tone it down” and “back off a smidgen,” Ms. Wasserman Schultz says. She agreed with them to enlist two seasoned Democratic female pros, Anita Dunn and Hilary Rosen, to begin giving her occasional political advice and media training, advisers say. “I’m glad to get constructive criticism,” Ms. Wasserman Schultz says.
Let’s hope Rosen continues to be the voice of the Democrats on women’s issues.
Update: Via Big Journalism, Rosen currently works for Anita Dunn’s PR firm SKD Knickerbocker. That’s the firm that now represents Sandra Fluke. Dana Loesch responded to Rosen’s comment that Mitt Romney is “old fashioned.”
Yes, there is something old-fashioned about the belief that a homemaker couldn’t understand the complexity of the economics affecting her household. Rosen apparently subscribes to the Linda Hirschman worldview, one that posits women are only as valuable as their contributions outside the home, unrelated to children and family. Rearing up the next generation that will someday run the world is woefully under appreciated.
It’s only under appreciated on the left, so let them keep trashing traditional families and see how that plays out in November.
Gee, I thought it was the liberals who compared the work of women who stay home should be compensated as much as men or women in the workplace.
Remember when “Tehresa” Kerry said Laura Bush never worked a day when it turned out that she was a school teacher. You never heard from her again for the rest of the campaign.
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Obama never worked a day in his life. (Not counting campaigning).
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Well, Michelle got that lucrative hospital job when Obama became a Senator. You know, the one that was left unfilled when she quit when he ran for president. I’m sure she worked very hard while struggling to make ends meet.
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LOL – Michelle was paid six figures for that lofty position and worked part-time. It was during this period that she was involved in the “patient dumping” debacle in Chicago. I’m guessing she worked hard at that when she showed up… and yet, despite both their huge salaries, Michelle and Barack still “struggled” because they lived way beyond their means and were thousands of dollars in debt. Until his ghost-written book sales skyrocketed.
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Is there any married man with children that would make this comment? I know I sure would not. My wife did not work outside the home, but if I made this comment I would never see the light of day again.
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Stay at home mom’s work just as hard, if not harder (because it affects them directly) than “paid women workers”. Without my mother at home to ensure we were met at home by a loving parent, fed, and controlled to ensure we did our homework and chores, I and my brothers would have grown up to be liberals.
I thank my mom everyday that she “sacrificed” to raise us kids instead of out trying to earn more money. The attention we got from her was worth more than anyone could ever afford and ensured four fine upstanding citizens entered the work place and not on a corner smoking crack.
Libs raised by the TV/game console will never understand what it is to have a stay at home mother/parent.
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Yes, people raised by the TV (old days) or game console (new days) don’t easily understand the level of effort, love, caring…nor can they understand the complexity of child-rearing…because they’ve never seen it in action in their own home.
I’m horrified by kids who never EVER have a summer vacation because both parents work. They go to school 9 months out of the year, and then go to “day-care-summer-camp” often at their same school location the other 3 months of summer. What a horrible thing to do to your kids. Never the opportunity to sleep the day away on a blahket at the park, in your back yard. Never the chance to “tinker” in the garage with some old appliances. NO..you’ve got to get up and leave the house at 6:22 am every morning because Mommy and Daddy need to GET TO WORK ON TIME!
AUGH!
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For feminist, this is particularly irksome, stay at home moms are the enemy!
This is just the smear of the day from Obamaland!
Expect many more baseless accusations to be leveled against Romney, his family, and his entire campaign staff!
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[...] The Lonely Conservative notes: “(Rearing the next generation is) only under appreciated on the left, so let them keep trashing traditional families and see how that plays out in November.” [...]
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Sounds like the woman bad a “Biden” moment!!!
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this lady has got to be kidding! if the entire idea of the feminist movement was to give woment the options to do what they wanted (instead of being pushed into a few narrow traditional roles) how is it a problem that someone chose being a mother…and a stay-at-home mother at that?
I’ve done it both ways and it is much more difficult to do a good job at raising your kids (be it 1 or 5) than it is to do a good job at work. Why? Because the job you do raising your kids has a much more long-term impact. On your kid. On you. On your spouse/family. Continuously etting some numbers wrong in a report and getting fired would be bad, but you can get another job. Continually not paying attention to your kid when they need help with homework or not cheering them on in their sport/favorite activity can cause a lifetime of damage. I guess the difference is in the person. If you’ve never had a loving set of parents who gave you their ALL every day to ensure that you turn out to be a decent human being, achieving your potential, then you don’t understand how great it is to HAVE a mom watch you as you walk to the bus-stop..or be available to walk if there is a bully on the route. If you don’t have memories of coming home to a house that smelled of your favorite cookies or favorite meal ON A REGULAR BASIS..not just on your b-day…then how could you possibly appreciate it? Anyone can work. Juggling the conflicting demands of time and scheduling and attention of CHILDREN’s NEEDS is much more demanding than your BOSSES needs…because you should CARE MORE about your children than your (multiple) bosses.
To think that Ann doesn’t know anything about the struggles of working mothers is to assume that she doesn’t have the capacity to read and understand the newspaper, doesn’t have the capacity to understand what her (working) friends go through, etc etc.
You don’t have to be worried about $ and whether your kids have food to be a good Mom.
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[...] The Lonely Conservative – “Hilary Rosen, an adviser to President Obama and the DNC, appeared on CNN to talk about Mitt Romney’s outreach to women in the campaign. She slammed Romney’s wife Ann for being a stay at home mother.” “Guess what, his wife has actually never worked a day in her life.” [...]
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One of the most irksome aspects of the left’s take on Stay At Home moms (SAHMs) is the way they insist that only the rich man’s wife has the luxury of this choice.
It’s just not true. Now, some folks really don’t have any choice–they need both incomes. Or single income split families. But many of us that stay home are not wealthy. The necessity for double income is, for many middle class folks, actually a myth. If they stop trying to buy the latest cars, vacations, etc, etc, many could go down to one income.
One income isn’t always easy, and isn’t the right choice for everyone. But it’s more doable that people like Hilary rosen make it out to be.
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“that people like Hilary Rosen make it out to be.”
THAN, not that, grr.
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Her be sorry now…, everything be OK
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/12/top-democratic-strategist-attacks-ann-romney/
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Why, I ask, is erroneous opinion almost always LOUD!!!
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I was a stay-at-home dad for almost a year while I looked for employment…I wouldn’t exactly call being a stay-at-home parent a “luxury”.
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See the comment from Linda. Most families we know with a stay at home mom (or dad) forego buying new clothes, vacations and other luxuries. They hardly ever eat out and cut coupons to make ends meet.
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That was our life, and yet we were FAR happier than our RICH neighbors! It’s true, money can’t guarantee happiness!
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Wow….I didn’t really think you had a valid point until I saw the ALL CAPS.
Spot on…
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