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Ann Romney: Mitt ‘obviously doesn’t need’ president’s job for the money
In an interview with Denver, Colorado’s KDVR Fox 31, Ann Romney, wife of Republican candidate for president, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), said that her husband does not “disdain the poor,” and that voters should believe in his integrity because Mitt Romney “obviously doesn’t need to do this for a…
Ann Romney criticized over planned remarks at ‘anti-LGBT’ Values Voter Summit
Progressive groups are questioning Ann Romney’s scheduled appearance at the upcoming Values Voter Summit, an event hosted by organizations they say demonize the LGBT community. “The Romney campaign must have its reasons, but it sure seems like an odd way to deploy Ann Romney,” Josh Glasstetter of RightWingWatch said. “No…
Mitt Romney: ‘My heritage and my faith have made me the person I am’
Mitt Romney: 'My heritage and my faith have made me the person I am' In the minds of many voters, two things about Mitt and Ann Romney have set them apart from most Americans: their wealth and their Mormon faith. Both issues – personal and in some ways deeply private…
Ann Romney flip-flops: ‘We have not had a financial struggle in our lives’
During her Republican National Convention speech last month, Ann Romney suggested that she and her husband had once been so poor that they “ate a lot of pasta and Tuna fish” and their “dining room table was a fold down ironing board.” In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC,…
Ann Romney: Marriage rights, birth control aren’t economic issues for women
David Nelson, an anchor with KWQC in Davenport, Iowa had a chance to interview Ann Romney today, and he decided to focus on the meat behind her convention speech comment, “I love women.” But Ann Romney had other ideas. Less than two minutes into the interview, after she gave her…
Study: First Lady’s convention speech seven grade levels higher than Ann Romney’s
The speech First Lady Michelle Obama delivered at Tuesday night’s Democratic convention read at a twelfth grade level, according to an analysis by a University of Minnesota political scientist, making it, by that measure, the most complex speech delivered by a presidential candidate’s spouse at a nominating convention. By contrast,…
Michelle Obama, Ann Romney: a study in contrasts
One is black, the other white. One was born into wealth, the other came from a working class family in Chicago, and as with the two presidential candidates, their wives — Ann Romney and First Lady Michelle Obama — provide a stark study in contrasts. Both women are viewed as…
‘Hypocritical’ Romney tells hurricane victims to get help from FEMA
By Mira Oberman LAFITTE, Louisiana — One day after he was named official flag-bearer of the Republican revolution, Mitt Romney confronted the limits of his small government rhetoric Friday in the storm-ravaged Louisiana Bayou. As Hurricane Isaac petered out and headed off northwards, Romney jetted in from his nomination convention…
Ann Romney: Mitt is ‘used to passing up’ $30 million job offers
Ann Romney says that her husband is “used to” passing up multi-million job offers and that the “poor guy” didn’t even get paid for running the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. During an interview on Friday, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade noted that the former Massachusetts governor had…
Ann Romney: Clint Eastwood ‘did a unique thing’
Ann Romney says she appreciates the support of actor Clint Eastwood and the “unique thing” he did during his Thursday speech at the Republican National Convention, but she would have rather seen a video praising her husband, Mitt Romney. During surprise, rambling speech in which Eastwood interviewed an invisible Barack…
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