I've stayed away from political posts this season for no other reason than "fish in a barrel" is not my idea of sport. In particular, I've been very good my entire life about taking shots at political wives. They didn't marry into the idea of "my hubby the president" so they come with a set of circumstances foreign to me from the get go. Aside from that fairly unwired Edwards family, most of the females (or in the rare instances when the roles were reversed - males), as the old theater saying goes, "just wandered on stage - entrance right, stand behind potted palm".Ms. Romney took a very minor shot on the stay at home mom theme the other day and it was hardly to the level of a Rush or a Sean but it was directed at her and I'm not sure that is fair. HOWEVER, Ms. Romney decided to get loopy on us and offered up this in a speech:
At a meeting with the “Moms For Mitt” group yesterday outside Philadelphia, PA, Ann Romney was asked her opinion on Lilly Ledbetter and equal pay for equal work regarding women’s employment. Without hesitation she responded with another question that seemed to shock even the most staunch conservatives in the room.
“Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot longer and deserve to be paid at a higher rate. Heck, I’m a working mom and I’m not paid a dime. I depend on my husband to provide for me and my family, as should most women… and if a woman does work, she should be happy just to be out there in the working world and quit complaining that she’s not making as much as her male counterparts. I mean really, all this wanting to be equal nonsense is going to be detrimental to the future of women everywhere. Who’s going to want to hire a woman, or for that matter, even marry a woman who thinks she is the same, if not better than a man at any job. It’s almost laughable. C’mon now ladies, are you with me on this?”
Gloryoskies.