MRS. AMERICA
Posted on 08/29/2012 2:11:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Who is Mitt Romney? If Americans didn’t know who he was before, they know now. Tuesday night at the RNC convention in Tampa, Mrs. Ann Romney destroyed the stereotype of an out-of-touch Romney family. She entered the Tampa Bay Times forum to a roaring and standing crowd with many chanting, “We love you Ann!”
Romney spoke directly to a struggling America. She told them personal stories about her struggles with breast cancer, living with MS and raising five children. She spoke of the love her husband has given her through more than 40 years of marriage.
“I want to talk not about what divides us, but what holds us together as an American family. I want to talk to you tonight about that one great thing that unites us, that one thing that brings us our greatest joy when times are good, and the deepest solace in our dark hours. Tonight I want to talk to you about love,” Romney said. “I want to talk to you about the deep love I have for a man I met at a dance.”
Romney detailed her marriage with the man she met at that dance. They got married young, they lived in a basement apartment, and used the ironing board as a kitchen table. Soon after, they had their first child and today, they have five children and eighteen grandchildren. They worked hard for what they owned and faced their own struggles along the way.
“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,” she said.
Being a mother and a grandmother, Romney had a thing or two to say about how she relates to women in America based on her own experiences and what she has seen traveling the country.
“I have seen and heard stories about how hard it is to get ahead,” she said. “It’s the moms of this nation, single, married, widowed, who really hold this country together.”
Although Romney stayed away from a direct discussion of policy, she made a strong case for her husband based on principles he learned working in the private sector and as the governor of Massachusetts.
“We don’t want easy, but the last few years have been harder than they used to be,” she said. “We’re not dumb enough to think there are easy answers, but we’re smart enough to think there are better ones.”
Although the focus of her speech was on Mitt Romney’s personal character and experience, Mrs. Romney made a few indirect digs at the current administration.
“It amazes me to see his history of success being attacked,” she said. “I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success, he built it.”
Ann Romney is the granddaughter of a Welsh cole miner, so on top of knowing the ins and outs of motherhood, she knows all about hard labor.
“No one will work harder, no one will care more and no one will move heaven and earth like Mitt Romney to make this country a better place to live,” she said. “This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America.”
It was a good speech. Disappointed with Christie.
Rush, Sarah, and Levin should have had prime time slots. That would have been some high octane inspiration.
Oh well, the GOP-e sucks...
That doesn't really make a lot of sense right there.
Unless of course she can absorb by osmosis experiences removed by two generations.
Labor.....giving BIRTH.....HARD LABOR giving birth to five boys.
She did a terrific job and would be a classy First Lady, as opposed to the disgusting embarassment that is our current one.
M step grandfather worked in coal mines, had crushed toes, broken fingers, and tales of hard work stooped over. No I didn’t get it by osmosis but I did understand , from a very early age, how hard it was to work in mines.
Christie gave a very good speech I thought.
I was impressed by Mrs. Romney and hope she is our next first lady.
“Disappointed with Christie.”
Au contraire. Christie followed Ann’s great performance with one of the most inspiring speeches I have heard and he laid out exactly how America can re-establish itself after the debacle of the Obama presidency.
You might try reading your own tagline
...granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner...
You think Ann is related to Joe Biden?
Christy sparkles when he speaks off the cuff. Last night he was obviously reading a focus group tested script.
I think she did a good job and is a lovely lady. I wish she would have left out the not being able to afford a kitchen table. It only reminds people that Mitt did not have a job till he was 31 and she never worked ,even before she had children. Getting a job to buy what they needed, instead of waiting for daddies next check was an option. In one interview she did she said those times were so hard that Mitt had to cash in some stock he had been given. It is hard to relate the facts with hard times.
Yeah, I thought that was a dumb line, too. I’m the granddaughter of a doctor and a nurse, so of course I know how to take out your appendix. Hand me those scissors, will you?
I wonder if Barack Obama will destroy the cole industry next ...
You don’t have to live in a box under the GW Bridge to think that having to cash in some stock and not having a kitchen table are not hard times. Other than that I think she did a good job and she would make a fine First Lady.
Is that what she was referring to with that line?
Having a First Lady that is ACTUALLY a ‘lady’, might be kinda nice for a change.
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