Sometimes, the Morning Jolt is just too good to make you wait until the actual morning:
Obamaโs Allies Let Out What They Really Think of Ann Romney
What?
What?
So apparently on CNN Wednesday evening, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen felt the best way to help her preferred candidate, Barack Obama, was to go after Ann Romney, Mittโs wife.
ANDERSON COOPER: To the Romney campaignโs point, they say theyโre focusing on the economy, and thatโs what women say they overwhelmingly care about right now in poll after poll. And whether itโs a typical pattern or not, women are seeing jobs come back much more slowly than men are. Is there anything really wrong then, on reaching out to women on an issue that they care about, on the economy?
HILARY ROSEN: Well, first, can we just get rid of this word, โwar on womenโ? The Obama campaign does not use it, President Obama does not use it โ this is something that the Republicans are accusing people of using, but theyโre actually the ones spreading it. With respect to economic issues, I think actually that Mitt Romneyโs right, that ultimately, women care more about the economic well-being of their families and the like. But he doesnโt connect on that issue either. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying, โWell, my wife tells me what women really care about are economic issues.โ And, โWhen I listen to my wife, thatโs what Iโm hearing.โ Guess what? His wife has never actually worked a day in her life. Sheโs never really dealt with the economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing โ in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and how do โ why we worry about their future.
Brittany Cohan: โDemocrats are all about choice. Until you are a pro-life woman who stays at home and raises her kids. Then youโre wrong. Or something.โ
Erick Erickson: โIf raising 5 sons through breast cancer and MS isnโt a real job, Iโm not sure what is.โ
Our Charles Cooke observes, โAn astonishing number of liberals on Twitter have feeds featuring both nonsensical โwar on womenโ claims and mean comments about Ann Romney.โ He adds, โActually, @hilaryr, if the federal government ran its budgets like most mothers do, we wouldnโt have a $900bn structural annual deficit.โ
Dana Perino scoffs, โThe problem with saying something explosive on a network no one watches is that everyone hears about it and few hear the hollow apology.โ
Moe Lane notices, โHey, do you know what Hilary Rosen considers real work? Pushing copy-protected CDs. Thatโs right: she was a RIAA lobbyist.โ
Ryan Williams, Romney spokesman, notices a report from the Wall Street Journal from February 16: โObama advisers have occasionally told [DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz] to โtone it downโ . . . She agreed with them to enlist . . . Anita Dunn and Hilary Rosen.โ
Chelsea Grunwald: โQuestion for Hillary Rosen, Michelle Obama is technically not employed right now, is her input on female economic issues invalid too?โ
Drew M. asks, โDoes she have to report her CNN appearance to the FCC as an in-kind contribution to the Romney campaign?โ
How bad did it get?
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, 10:42 p.m. eastern time: โI could not disagree with Hilary Rosen any more strongly. Her comments were wrong and family should be off limits. She should apologize.โ
David Axelrod, 10:48 p.m. eastern time: โAlso Disappointed in Hilary Rosenโs comments about Ann Romney. They were inappropriate and offensive.โ
Oh, by the way:
Hilary Rosen, the chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, will leave the organization at the end of 2003. Rosen had worked for the RIAA โ the trade group that represents the sound recording creators, manufacturers and distributors โ for seventeen years and served as the organizationโs CEO since 1998 . . . In a statement, Rosen expressed a desire to spend more time with her children as a motivating factor in her decision to resign.
So, when Rosen did that . . . did she stop โreally dealing with the economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facingโ as she believes Ann Romney did?
Do only working mothers have views on economic issues and economic pressures?






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