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I think it will become obvious when Obama corrals two thirds of the female vote across the political spectrum.

Bazinga!
Yours in mirth,
Issodhos

Well, yes, that is a demographic Democratic operatives and president Obama are desperate to hold onto. That is the reason he and other Dems soiled their shorts when the Dem woman analyst mocked candidate Romney's wife as "having never worked a day in her life", and launched a full-scale attack on one of their own for -- are you ready? -- in my opinion, letting it get out as to what left-dressed top-dog Dems and and other professional class 'progressives' in general actually think of the stay-at-home-mom. It is pretty bad when a female Dem operative is actually taken to the woodshed by the president, himself.
Yours,
Issodhos

By the way, I'm surprised that Dems would consider females to be herd animals to be rounded up and corraled in the polling centers.
Yours,
Issodhos

What Ms Rosen said is, of course entirely true

And, of course, it was taken out of context. What she said, of course, was in response to the reality that women lag men in the recovery - after agreeing that Mitt Romney is right that women care about economic issues, "ultimately women care more about the economic well-being of their families." In context she said: she was talking about women in the workforce - which, by the way, includes two thirds of American mothers, most of whom don't have a choice to be a stay-at-home mom (with a staff or not). Everything Rosen said was absolutely correct, and not insulting - except among those who are prone to be insulted because a Democrat said it. Ann Romney has never had to work, so she hasn't ever been employed. She went from being the pampered daughter of a rich daddy, to the pampered wife of a rich husband. Most of us would love to have a $20 million dollar trust fund instead of a job. Oh, they "struggled" in college trying to make ends meet by selling off his stock portfolio, if you can believe that story.

Now, if you want Ms. Rosen's complete response: Ann Romney and Working Moms

Ann Romney is Mitt's "Squirrel!" Maybe I can distract everyone from the reality of my record, and the unreality of my thinking, by blaming a Democrat for saying accurate things about my wife. Oh, it worked!

So your little tirade here doesn't stand the light of day when compared to everything that was said by the Democrat lady in question. Why, imagine my shock at that after reading NWP's post and citation! And speaking of citations, where is yours for claiming that President Obama is "desperate" to keep the female demographic, and that he took this Democrat to the woodshed?

Out of context? Hardly. In the real world, when one comments about another, saying , "she never worked a day in her life", it is almost always meant to be derogatory with the intent of marginalizing her or someone relying on her. This is especially true when engaged in by a political party operative. As to what you present as Rosen's "complete response", that is nothing more than a morning-after damage control effort motivated by an Democratic avalanche of rebuke from the White House on down. And yet, there is an interesting bit in it which reads:

"As Ruth Marcus noted in her column yesterday in the Washington Post, Romney, when asked last week about the gender gap, twice said he wished his wife could take the question."My wife has the occasion, as you know, to campaign on her own and also with me," Romney told newspaper editors, "and she reports to me regularly that the issue women care about most is the economy."

This is interesting because if Ann Romney is involving herself in the campaign, one has to assume she is both listening to and talking to women. What she learns she would pass on to her husband as gleaned knowledge. It would be perfectly valid and does not require her to have experienced directly the lifes of less well off women. Yet Rosen, being a political operative and thus engaged in the business of deceiving people, switches words and makes it about "women who are struggling economically" and "women's economic issue", instead of "the issue women care about most is the economy". Maybe yo do not see the difference, but the Dem operative is basically saying that women are not sophisticated enough to be concerned with the economy, but rather are only interested in what the Dems can offer them. Doe this Dem operative think the economy in general is to much of a subject for women? Or, is it that the operative knows the segment of the female demographic Dems are desperate to hold onto?

As to your remarks about her being a "pampered daughter" and "pampered wife", I am not sure how you would know how pampered her life has been, but she apparently has had the strength of character to continue an active life after having been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 16 years ago -- not to mention a bout with breast cancer.
Yours,
Issodhos

An amused observation, Scoutgal, not a "tirade".:-)

I noticed some partisan smoke, but there certainly was no light forthcoming from NW's 'citations'.

Anyway, any pol who is in what appears to be in a close re-election bid would be desparate to hold onto a demographic previously supportive of him. That does not require a citation.

As to being taken to the woodshed? Well .....
Yours,
Issodhos