Cigar
09-24-2012, 01:53 PM
When does testiness cross over into anger? Whatever you want to call it, Ann Romney is showing the signs. When she takes her husband’s conservative critics to task on Radio Iowa with: “Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring.” When she leans into an NBC reporter and says: “There’s going to be no more tax releases given.” When she tells Latino voters (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/ann-romney-will-tell-you-whats-wrong-with-you/2012/08/30/db34d212-f2f8-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_blog.html) they would vote Republican if only “they could just get past some of their biases.”
But her persona is not “angry white woman.” It’s more the fighting helpmate for Mitt Romney, her tough words and emotional delivery adding fire (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/ann-romney-about-that-fire-and-ice/2012/09/21/042843ac-041a-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_blog.html) to a candidate and a campaign that could use it. Though GOP presidential candidate Romney used a certain word to describe the “47 percent” at his Florida fund-raising event, he and his wife sometimes sound as though they consider themselves “victims,” and I can’t figure out what they’re so mad about.
Imagine the reaction if the current first lady went off like that on her husband’s detractors and lectured Americans on what they should realize and when. Better yet, recall Michelle Obama’s famous 2008 campaign declaration, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/could-michelle-obama-get-away-with-ann-romneys-fire/2012/09/24/b2c246fe-063d-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_blog.html
But her persona is not “angry white woman.” It’s more the fighting helpmate for Mitt Romney, her tough words and emotional delivery adding fire (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/ann-romney-about-that-fire-and-ice/2012/09/21/042843ac-041a-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_blog.html) to a candidate and a campaign that could use it. Though GOP presidential candidate Romney used a certain word to describe the “47 percent” at his Florida fund-raising event, he and his wife sometimes sound as though they consider themselves “victims,” and I can’t figure out what they’re so mad about.
Imagine the reaction if the current first lady went off like that on her husband’s detractors and lectured Americans on what they should realize and when. Better yet, recall Michelle Obama’s famous 2008 campaign declaration, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/could-michelle-obama-get-away-with-ann-romneys-fire/2012/09/24/b2c246fe-063d-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_blog.html