Last night on CNN, Democratic National Committee advisor Hilary Rosen disparaged Ann Romney, mother of five boys and an MS and cancer survivor, as having "never worked a day in her life." Forget the so-called "war on women" — Rosen just declared a "war on moms."
Really? We dare Rosen to say that to the face of any mom or dad who stays at home to raise their children.
In a sign of how brutally quick the Romney opposition research shop is going to be in the general election, within mere minutes of Rosen making the disparaging comments the push back began. Romney's operation, and a collective of conservative commentators, immediately called out Rosen's insult as an attack on stay-at-home moms.
They also began tying Rosen, incredibly effectively, to Obama's White House. While Democrats cried that Rush Limbaugh's comments on Sandra Fluke were representative of the Republican Party because Limbaugh was the "de facto head of the GOP," Rosen can actually be tied to the top of the Democrat Party without using such loose link connections.
Reports the Miami Herald:
Republicans note Rosen's a top Democratic insider. She was an adviser to the president during the ObamaCare debates. She visited the White House 35 times (27 times more than Gen. David Petraeus) between March 24, 2010 and Dec. 7, 2011.
If Democrats think they can distance themselves from someone who visited the White House 27 more times than the Director of the CIA, good luck.
In fact, Hilary Rosen has visited the White House more often, according to visitor logs, than Energy Secretary Steven Chu (16 times), Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki (19 times), or Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (12 times).
How many times did Rush Limbaugh visit RNC headquarters in the last year? Oh yeah, that's right….none.
Adding to this gratuitous Democrat assault on stay-at-home moms is the news yesterday that Obama pays women 18% less than men in his White House. As commenter guesswho also noted, Obama was found to have paid women nearly $6,000 less than men in his US Senate Office.
The real war on women is coming from Obama and upper level Democrats, folks.
As the Romney campaign has noted — and the Washington Post said "the numbers add up" — 92.3% of jobs lost since Obama took office have been jobs held by women.
So Obama is responsible for massive female job loss, a DNC advisor denigrates the women who do the hardest job in society, raising children, Obama pays women less in his White House and US Senate office, and it's Republicans who are leading the "war on women"?
We don't want to hear a single complaint from Democrats about their newfound lack of fortune. As Daily Mall Executive Editor Toby Harnden commented, Democrats are "reaping what they sowed. If Rush speaks for the GOP, Hilary Rosen speaks for Obama."
You made the bed, now lie in it.
Boy, the authors of this site sure are cowards, aren’t they?
“If Rush speaks for the GOP, Hilary Rosen speaks for Obama.”
How does one figure? Republicans have LONG been lauding Limbaugh as their spokesman. OTOH, who the hell has ever heard of Hilary Rosen til now? Not me.
Come on, Peak. Take me on if you can.
You seem to have near manic obsession with the authors of this site. You rarely, if ever, have anything useful to say so I’m not surprised they haven’t responded to your whining.
As for Hilary Rosen, if you read the post you’d realize how dumb your comment is.
In the span of less than two years Rosen visited the White House 35 times, including to offer strategic communications advice to Obama.
Rush is a radio host and Rosen is a communications adviser to Democrats and Obama. Whose words do you think matter more when it comes to being tied to a political party?
You just don’t like what I have to say. Your strained attempts to equate Rosen’s importance to Limbaugh prove that.
See, here’s how it works. Sure, Rosen is an adviser. BUT… she was expressing her own opinion, not something that she wanted the Dems (and NOT Obama – DNC isn’t the White House) to say.
Note that you can’t seem to counter her statement, now that I’ve pointed out that Mrs. Romney isn’t exactly what one thinks of when the term “working mother” is thrown out there. (That’s how this all started – Mittens threw her out there as an example of that.) And Rosen, being unknown to most, doesn’t speak for the party… which is what Rethugs are claiming now.
Let’s be honest, Aristotle, you’re a Democrat shill who is spewing the party talking points like they’re the gospel truth. Neither you or Rosen have any place in defining what a working mother is or is not. What Rosen said is offensive and she should apologize to every woman in America. Rosen has voluntarily put herself out there as a “nationally recognized strategist” who we know visits the White House regularly. As Aesop so wisely said, “a man is known by the company he keeps.” Maybe President Obama needs to be more careful about the company he keeps if he doesn’t want to be tagged with disparaging stay-at-home moms.
I’m not, and have never been, a registered Democrat in well over 20 years of voting.
Rosen DID apologize, but you probably missed that. She didn’t need to, though – Mrs. Romney never had to choose between buying food or buying medicine, or miss any of her children’s school plays because of work, or anything like that. Her quarter-of-a-billionaire husband has eliminated choices like that. The working mothers who are paying a higher tax rate than the Romneys would scoff at the notion that Ann is one of them.
Now, what do you suppose are the chances that a fabulously wealthy family like the Romneys did NOT hire nannies, cooks, and housekeepers?
I think zilch.
Sorry, charlie, but I think that the aide who tweeted that was probably right on target.
Oh, and you can stop linking back to your own discredited diaries. I know, I know, repeating lies is effective propaganda, but it isn’t honest.