Ann Romney: No Extortion Had You Elected Mitt.

[kpete]

WED OCT 02, 2013 AT 07:40 AM PDT
Ann Romney: No Extortion Had You Elected Mitt.
by TomP

Look, you had your chance. Now you reap the consequences. We warned you. Elect Mitt or we will destroy America. You did not elect Mitt; you elected Barack Obama. Now America pays.

If Mitt Romney had been elected, the government would be up and running - and there’d be no Obamacare, Ann Romney said Wednesday.

“We would not be in a shutdown,” Romney said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends.”

The wife of the former Republican presidential nominee said that Mitt would’ve “stopped Obamacare” when asked her thoughts of the current situation in Washington.

Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ann-romney-obamacare-mitt-romney-2012-election-97716.html?hp=r9

The Republican Party is a continuing criminal enterprise.

Like a mob enforcer: You did not pay so we burn down your business.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/02/1243317/-Ann-Romney-No-Extortion-Had-You-Elected-Mitt

[tk2kewl]

1. Shut up Anne your 15 minutes is up.

[meadowlark5]

2. No kidding

She needs to get back in her kitchen and shut up.

[azurnoir]

85. seriously I doubt she's ever been in her kitchen

that's what 'the help' is for

[meadowlark5]

98. Doesn't she have a cookbook?

Or am I remembering a picture of her in her kitchen when Mitty was running - trying to make her look all domestic so she could identify with "the little people".

[azurnoir]

99. yepper she does but I'm bettin' when the recipes get made in the 'Romney Home'

the cook isn't Anne

http://www.amazon.com/The-Romney-Family-Table-Home-Cooked/dp/1609076761

[meadowlark5]

100. Oh, I'd bet on that too

Can't get food stains on those awful clothes she wears. That's what she needs to hire is a stylist. Anyone remember that hideous painted fish t-shirt she wore on some interview? I think it cost something like a $1000 I would have painted it for her and charged her $50.

[DonCoquixote]

27. oh no

We need this fool to keep talking to remind people of just how close we came to a stupid fool gaining the Oval Office. Granted, the Tea-Had would be after him too, but Mitt would shovel them whatever they wanted. They would still impeahc him, so they could have put Paul Ryan on the throne.

[PNW_Dem]

84. Keep Mitt Alive!

It totally pisses me off that the MSM has allowed Mitt to drop into obscurity after his (wonderful) loss. America needs to be reminded of what could have been. Root beer and all.

[lastlib]

112. I sincerely wish Obama had appointed Mittens......

....Ambassador to his money......where he'd be out of the country, quiet, and free to count his golden stash......

[Roland99]

3. Damn...if only...

[hlthe2b]

4. You can return to your perpetual pity party, Ann

No one really cares what you think...

[Yavin4]

5. The phrase "Graceful in Defeat" does not apply to the Romneys

Not by a long shot.

[Supersedeas]

121. Images of a canine tied to the roof of the Romney car

[Downtown Hound]

6. Which is why we didn't elect your fuckwit husband.

Lots of us not only want health care, but NEED it.

[etherealtruth]

108. I think that is exactly the point ...

Had the American people not wanted this ....we would have elected the dimwits husband.

We elected Obama knowing that this was his goal. Obviously, these nut jobs believe that if you lose the election you shut down the government.

[bunnies]

7. Time to get over it, Ann.

Really. Let it go. Its embarrassing.

[ctsnowman]

69. lol Love it.

[liberal N proud]

8. Because he would have given the terrorist what they wanted

[Tikki]

9. Is this really true...what she said? If so then that woman is horrid and we lucked even more than...

I could ever imagine by not having her as a symbol of our Nation.

If she were my mother..I would be ashamed.


Tikki

[Mike Nelson]

10. She's correct!

...and we'd be so much more worse off...

Health care would favor those in the Romney income bracket.
Forget peace with Iran, we'd be a War with Iran...

[brush]

83. Not to mention Syria. nt

[magical thyme]

11. gee, Ann, maybe Mittens should run in 2016.

He can run on the platform, "Vote for me and we *won't* burn down the government."

And then we could elect a dem by a landslide, if only so we won't have to look at you on teevee all the time, not to mention listen to you mouthing off to us little people.


Or maybe you could just stfu and get over it. You lost. Deal.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Dear Anne: FUB

Now STFU and go make another baby.

[Aerows]

13. I've said it before, and I'll say it again

I never could tell which of them, Mitt or Ann, that I detested the most. Both of them are entitled, arrogant and just plain awful.

[ctsnowman]

70. But they

had to sell stocks once when they were playing poor. How can you not respect that.

[lostincalifornia]

14. There is something extremely wrong with that family. The callousness demonstrated during the

Campaign only demonstrates the more they talk, why they lost

[Dawson Leery]

15. Hillary Rosen had you pegged, you piece of right wing s**t.

[treestar]

16. Well we didn't.

Doesn't she have a horse to go a sell to a defrauded buyer or something?

[Blue Owl]

17. Go back to your binder, Ann Romney

n/t

[Th1onein]

97. DUzy!

[LordGlenconner]

18. Doesn't she have a country club cotillion to get to?

Or maybe a google hang out with Babs Bush so they can talk about their beautiful minds?

[Xipe Totec]

19. Wow. Just wow.

Talk about living in a bubble.

[Iterate]

20. Mitt "Pauli" Romney - bustin' the joint out

[City Lights]

21. Shut it, Ann.

[Raffi Ella]

22. "Like a mob enforcer: You did not pay so we burn down your business."

Seriously! This sounds like little more than an admission of that. Wow.


The country re-elected Obama and the Supreme Court upheld ACA. America WANTED Obama as our President and We WANT the ACA! Where the fuck do you get off acting this way and thereby encouraging your base to do so as well!? When bUsh was appointed President back in 2000 the country actually had a REASON to be angry and the Democratic Leadership, for The Good of The Country, accepted it and moved on-you and your Party don't have a leg to stand on here! Move ON, ya fucking irresponsible gasbag.

[RC]

96. The ACA is modeled after Romney Care. So what's their problem?

To say nothing of the fact, that it was birthed in the Right-wing think tank, The Heritage Foundation.

[Raffi Ella]

114. right.

It's something at least though, RC. Say what you will but it's helped a lot of people, or will. The electorate is changing everyday, becoming more engaged...in the meantime, it's better than nothing wouldn't you agree?

That fact though, that it's their idea, leads back to the extortionist admission on Queen Ann's part. Like I said, they don't have a leg to stand on here.

[pampango]

116. 'The ACA is modeled after Romney Care' but romney vetoed Romney Care.

The Democratic legislature made too many changes to his HF proposal. He vetoed it and the Democrats passed it over his veto.

[liberal from boston]

127. Romney Care

I live in MA & Thank you pampango for reminding us that Romney vetoed it and the Democratic legislature passed it over his veto.

[surrealAmerican]

23. ... and if we'd elected a Democratic majority in the House ...

... (which would have happened but for gerrymandering) the government would not be shut down and Obamacare would be in place. Who knows, maybe the minimum wage would be higher too.

See, we can all play this game.

[mercuryblues]

24. i used

to feel sorry for Anne, being married to Mitt and all. Then she opened her mouth.
So Anne, I will explain real slow. You Mr 47% of the vote Romney lost that election largely because he promised to repeal Obamacare. Well that and he's an asshat.

[mnhtnbb]

51. You are way too polite.

[gopiscrap]

25. Fuck that bullshit if willard had become president

we'd be bombing Syria, we'd be expanding in Afghanistan, we'd have cut off all food stamps and medical care and we'd all be required by laws to have a Book of Mormen in our home.

[DirkGently]

26. Oh for god's sake. Really?

So ... the (wife of the) Republican whose greatest achievement was implementing a mandated insurance program wants us to know that we should have elected him, because he would have immediately (somehow) eliminated a similar program and thus prevent other Republicans from holding the country hostage over it?

There has to be a limit to how many logical knots Republicans can tie themselves into in order to pretend they are not completely full of shit.

Apparently we have not yet reached that limit.

[Marie Marie]

76. Exactly - Mitt was FOR AFA (Romneycare) before he was AGAINST it (Obamacare)

Mrs. Flip-Flop, just shut up and go away.

[Supersedeas]

122. it was a Republican plan before they tried to defund it

[Jim__]

28. That's right, mittens said he'd put a stop to obamacare.

And the people didn't vote for him.

[MFM008]

29. Get back to your cookbook

or one of your mansions...your jewels...... or your servant's.

[Skittles]

30. LOL

their efforts to save face from the drubbing they took can be quite comical

[Pretzel_Warrior]

31. Which is why you lost, stupid fucks!

And by a large margin in popular and electoral votes.

[notadmblnd]

32. Ann needs to go back and play with her pony

Cause no one give two shits about what that twit has to say.

[TlalocW]

33. Republicans are reminding me of this...

TlalocW

[dorkzilla]

44. I can't tell you the number of times Ive thought about this skit the last few days!

Then again, everything comes down to a Monty Python reference for me. I admit it.

Thanks for posting that!

[smokey nj]

34. smokey nj: Shut the fuck up and crawl back into your hole, Ann.

[kentuck]

35. Her statement is extortion.

in itself.

[Larkspur]

36. Marie Antionette had more compassion for the masses than either Romney

Hope Anne chokes on a piece of cake someday.

[TheCowsCameHome]

37. AW, go beat the kitchen staff, you old bag.

Who the hell care what she thinks.

[Stinky The Clown]

38. Shut the fuck up and go away.

What detestable people that family has.

[cui bono]

39. Wow. That really is like a mobster or hoodlum. Amazing.

How can anyone interpret that as being positive in any way?

[struggle4progress]

40. "Help oppose healthcare coverage for our fellow Americans! Buy my cookbook!"

"They’re burned!"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

41. Go back to your dancing horses Ann

No one likes you.

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[Blue Idaho]

42. Jesus Fuck Ann...

Just let it go already...

[Brigid]

43. Why is anybody listening would-be-queen Ann?

We will get through this, and the Repugs will be the ones paying the price for this foolishness.

[HughBeaumont]

45. Uh, Loserella, why are you talking?

2012 happened, soooo BYE BYE.

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

46. Thank God Ann is nowhere near the White House!

And that this fantastic woman is our First Lady for another four years!



It's as if the caption should be..."Hey, Ann....How's being First Lady treating you!?"

[SummerSnow]

47. Shut up Ann..

If your magic underwear husband was Prez


1. We would be in at least 6 wars now

2. Attacked again by Alqueda


3. No medicare


4. No social security


5. defecits would triple


6. Federal govt gone by now


7. No Dept of Ed


8.No immigration reform



9. All vaginas would be owned by the govt



10.poor people would perish



11. middle class would perish, or whats left of them.



12. old people would have to work



13. we would lose allies


I can go and on...please add to list

[mnhtnbb]

48. STFU you POS. Just STFU. Go ride your damn elevator and $75,000. tax deduction horse.

[ctsnowman]

71. lol

Next time don't hold back.

[mnhtnbb]

106. Oh, boy. Really. Who cares?

[ctsnowman]

120. Queen Ann

Has spoken. How dare we not bow to her!

Have a great day.

[wandy]

49. Ok, I went out to both links, twice, and I still haven't convinced........

myself that this is NOT the Onion.
How can anyone be such a disconnected, utterly self righouts, blueblooded, uncaring, screw you I got mine, vindictive, holeyer than thou, preachey, spoiled rich bitch, head up their butt ..............

I'd better stop now.

[AzDar]

50. Olivia Soprano speaks!

She really puts the "OG" in "GOP", doesn't she?

[louslobbs]

52. She, and her entire klan, has a screw loose. Who thinks like this and believes it's normal?n/t

Lou

[meadowlark5]

53. Do people actually ponder this statement?

Of course there would be no extortion and no govt shutdown because Mitty would have rolled over and begun implementing everything those baggers wanted as soon as he stepped in office. There would be nothing to extort.

Does she not understand that? Do people who listen to this dolt not understand that?

[MrScorpio]

54. That must be the crack cocaine talking. nt

[JI7]

55. she is worse than Barbara Bush, at least in Barbara Bush's case i think it's more about her style

and just being old and from another time.

but with Ann Romney i think she really hates and resents people and thinks we owe her something.

[ljm2002]

56. Uh-oh, I feel an extremely authoritarian impulse coming on...

...can't ... stop ... myself ...

STFU Ann! You aren't the First Lady, you're never gonna be the First Lady, deal with it.

[CTyankee]

57. Ann, here. You need some cheese with that whine...

[grasswire]

58. She did not rule out a run in 2016

Opening the door again.

Gawd.

[kydo]

59. Well If Gore had been elected

Wait he was elected just denied being President that letter. But Queen Ann should be reminded if Gore had actually been able to President we would not have had 911. I'm not saying we would not have been attacked, I'm sure they would have tried but the events that happened that day would not have happened the way they did and our reaction would have been different under President Gore.

Either way I am glad her husband did not win the last election or the world would be in the first 3 months of WWIII. But I kind of like the President we elected he is one smart cookie.

[dem in texas]

60. Queen Ann Speaks

Shut up rich bitch!

[mac56]

61. Please proceed, Ms. Romney.

[JBoy]

62. and if bin Laden had been elected President in 2000, ....

[avaistheone1]

63. Ann thanks for reminding me.

I made the right choice not voting for your husband.

[yuiyoshida]

64. She is a Has been....

Go back to your corner and sulk!

[Rectangle]

65. This is the Onion...Right??

[judesedit]

66. Yeah. They would've stopped social security, medicare/medicaid,overtime,sick days,unemployment,vets

benefits,child labor laws and everything else that is for the good of the majority of people in this country. The wealthy already get all of the perks.

It's time to shut them down. Get rid of the electoral college. Then gerrymandering won't matter one bit.

[rocktivity]

67. Who?

roctivity

[zwyziec]

68. You missed the point, Ann....

of the election. Your incompetent, tax evading, slippery husband lost the election by 5 million votes and a whole lot of electoral votes.

The people sent you and Mittster packing back to count your offshore money.

The irony of this is that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is a Heritage Foundation brainchild, implemented by your husband in MA (did you forget) also known as RomneyCare. But President Obama got the PPACA passed by Congress, upheld by the Supreme Court, funded by Congress and is the law of the land.

Your husband could not have repealed the PPACA without the consent of the Senate.

So keep dreaming and go back home and build your big house on the coast.

[jmowreader]

72. My Ann-to-English Dictionary says...

"If you would have just elected me and my husband instead of all those...what can I call them and not see 'Ann Romney is a Racist' stories in the papers tomorrow morning?...Congress wouldn't have had any reason to shut down the government because my husband would have given them everything they wanted, and I'd be Queen of America like I always dreamed of. I don't know why the little people are so in love with this those-people-care thing; don't they still have witch doctors and faith healers for people who can't afford Brigham and Women's out of their own pockets?"

Now let me ask ya something: Ann says that she'd like to invite everyone to sit at her table and have some coffee cake. What the hell do Mormons know about coffee cake?

[rurallib]

73. Oh Ann, Ann - Is Mitt willing to save America even though we rejected him?

Oh please Ann, please say he will! We were so foolish, Ann. If we but knew what it meant. Please beg Mitt for us to come back and save us!

[Wait Wut]

74. Holy crap this woman tempts me...

...to get a damned hidden post.

Fuck off, Ann. You and your husband were unable to lie to the American people by telling them you were human. Your batteries are getting weak. Maybe you should go stuff some new ones in.

[R Merm]

75. What a bitch eom

[zentrum]

77. Romneycare was the template...

....for Obamacare and is what Romney did in Massachusetts.

I know, I know---she was too busy jumping her thoroughbreds to pay attention to what was happening to the rabble during his governorship. What an ignorant hypocrite.

[zentrum]

78. And furthermore...

...she's gloating. They love to see the 47 and the 99 suffer.

[Botany]

79. I had an angel come to me last year and tell me that God thinks Mitt is a dick wad

[progressoid]

87. WWJD?

[frylock]

80. she should just shut her caviar hole

[Warren DeMontague]

81. "Nice Country you got, here...

...shame if somethin' happened to it, right boys?"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

82. Just for that...

[RVN VET]

86. Ann Romney?

She used to be a good looking bubble headed ignoramus. Now she's just a bubble headed ignoramus.

Rich and irrelevant. Not even a MILF anymore. So sad.

She has a son, doesn't she, who really thought he could have cold-cocked the President after the President let Mitt make a fool of himself on TV. The President would not have needed the Secret Service to handle the punk. Would've been fun to watch, but i digress.

Mitt Romney -- he's the husband, I think. Ran a greed-mill and got vilely rich, I think. Screwed over a lot of "little people", bought a bunch of mansions and cars. Other than that, he never amounted to a hill of beans, otherwise. Should have married better. Maybe things would have worked out for him.

[Raffi Ella]

123. What does your personal opinion of her looks have to do with anything?

Or whether you'd like to fuck her or not? How does that fit into an adult discussion on a political forum?

I don't give a damn about who you personally find fuckable- frankly, if that's where your mind goes when a woman you disagree with speaks? not a good reflection of your character; the rest of your post defies that notion so, I'd appreciate it if you'd edit that bit of misogynistic commentary from your post.

[RVN VET]

132. So sad, truly sad that you attack me for things I did not say or mean.

Interesting that you were able to infer from my brief rant a misogynistic content that was, in fact, just not there.

I merely said of the good lady what happens to be true: she has nothing to add to the political discourse but blather about her husband. She remains loyal to him. That's probably a good thing, in its way. But she has shown a political ineptness in the past and a typically Republican callousness to human suffering and the struggles of the people she and the rest of her class (most of them, anyway) have never shared.

I bet she was a real sweetheart in college. She was an attractive woman who bore and raised 5 -- count 'em, 5! - sons. That, in itself, is noteworthy and deserving of respect -- and, as she is a mother, I respect her. But she is not a politician, nor is she capable of understanding the needs of most Americans, and her comments about how things would be better if only dear Mittens had been allowed to ascend to the Presidency, everything would be just oh so much better -- those comments are ignorant and shows she has learned nothing from defeat.

Yeah, maybe I should have added accolades about her motherhood while inveighing against her foolish and counter-productive comments about the current state of America -- a state in which her husband's party is showing its willingness to destroy the Government and with it the World's economy to win a point against a man whose major crime, it seems, is trying to guarantee health care for 10's of millions of Americans. But somehow, at the time I just wasn't thinking of what a great mom she must have been. i was thinking, however, of just how tragi-comically shallow a persona she has put forth to take a pot-shot at a man who bested her vilely rich husband both in politics and in humanity and compassion.

And I meant to say only that, as a political thinker, she is no longer even a pretty face. I know that's crude, but considering that the Party her husband led to defeat has portrayed our President as a bushman with bones through is knows and a girdle of bananas around his waist, I really don't feel my characterization was in any way out of proportion to those of president Obama that she and her dear Mittens have implicitly endorsed.

That said, I retract my comments about her physical appearance. They were written in anger. Mrs. Romney is, in fact, a nice looking lady.

And, please, get a grip. MILF means more -- and less -- than what your mind seems bent on construing it to mean. There's more than one definition, after all, for "intercourse."

[progressoid]

88. Stopped Obamacare? Like he stopped Romneycare?

Sweet Jebus...

[Cryptoad]

89. LMAO

[Taitertots]

90. The secret truth: If Republicans were elected they would have had a larger deficit than Obama.

Everyone who tried to actually add up the Romney/Ryan budget plan said the deficit would be worse. And, recent history (Reagan) seems to support this.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

91. Good thing that our government doesn't run on extortion

or isn't supposed to, anyway.

[regnaD kciN]

92. You know, she's right…

If we had elected Money Boo Boo, we wouldn't have a government shutdown threatening our economy.

Because, after half-a-year of President Romney, we wouldn't have a government.

Or an economy.

[noiretextatique]

93. that's why he was not elected, dear

poor thing she should be addressed as one would a petulant child...or a deranged person

[Robbins]

94. Anne Romney

She is my least favorate wife of republican canidate ever.

The people saw Mr 47 percent,I like firing people,corporations are people,not concerned about the very poor.And they rejected him
for Barack Obama.

[Th1onein]

95. FUCK you, you classless piece of rotting flesh masquerading as a human being.

This piece of shit is classless and clueless. Please, someone stick a rag in her ugly mouth.

[B Calm]

101. My god, that women is really upset her husband is a LOSER!

[jimlup]

102. The point that she can't get through her thick skull is that we didn't

Her suggestion seems to be: "side with the terrorists or die"

[Douglas Carpenter]

103. I think it has been the Republican plan since Clinton days to cripple any Democratic administration

and make the country ungovernable whenever the people defy them and vote in a Democratic administration

[trublu992]

104. God please if you can hear me LET THIS MAN RUN FOR PRESIDENT JUST ONE MORE TIME

[okwmember]

105. How does she figure that?

Even if Mitt was elected, the Senate is still controlled by Democrats. So she thinks Mitt would have been so mighty he could pass laws with just one half of congress on his side? So Obamacare would still be the law of the land, and the tea party assholes would still be up in arms. Maybe someone needs a lesson on how a bill becomes a law.

[pnwmom]

109. She's right. Because Democrats don't try to extort things from Presidents,

even when they're Rethugs.

[indepat]

107. What kind of human does it take for person so in need of access to medical care to speak so

callously, joyously, and cavalierly of denying access to health care to millions of Americans? A real pipperoo? A real sweety pie? A real peach?

[closeupready]

128. Yes, she has MS, and can't empathize with non-covered MS-stricken Americans.

Thank God they lost - and RESOUNDINGLY.

[lastlib]

110. Hey, Annie, you ignorant twit--We wouldn't have ACA, either!

Forty-five MILLION people wouldn't have access to health insurance. All because we didn't elect your money-grubbing hubby and anoint you queen of whatever-the-hell you wanted to be queen of? Right.

Go ride on your car elevator.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

111. Don't you two have a trip to the planet Kalob?

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[blackspade]

113. She would have made a fucking awful first lady

[GoCubsGo]

115. Ann who?

Why should I give a shit what she thinks?

[Cha]

117. Fucking extionist.. If you don't do this.. whine whine whine .. we'll

do this to your country.

'cause it's sure as hell not their country.. they fucking hate it.

[BootinUp]

118. What a delightful couple. /sarcasm

[closeupready]

119. Yeah, but were we warned? You gotta warn people.

You know, 'elect us, or we destroy this country!' Run or ruin! K&R

[Enrique]

124. it's that goddamm 47%'s fault n/t

[MNBrewer]

125. Ann who?

[gopiscrap]

126. She is such a self-entitled pos!

[truebluegreen]

129. Yeah, he would have already given up the keys to the Treasury.

Ann needs to go back to pirating cookie recipes.

[bulloney]

130. People like the Romneys obviously have no deductive reasoning skills.

They were born into wealth and privilege and never had to really think on issues related to how they financially make things work from one pay period to the next; from one month to the next; and so on. When they've wanted to make a major purchase, they never had to make a plan and set a timetable to achieve that goal; they could just up and buy it any time. I really think there's a significant percentage of our population running our country and their sympathizers who lack the ability to think past the end of their noses, and that's why we have the political climate we're in.

Hey Annie - the 2012 elections were largely a referendum on ACA. Obama was easily re-elected. Democrats retained control of the Senate and Republicans' hold on the House diminished. And ACA was upheld by a conservative SCOTUS. If you're too dumb to figure all of this out, then thank God you're not our First Lady and your husband is not POTUS. Maybe we wouldn't have all of this gridlock we're experiencing now, but we would likely have reached the tipping point of class warfare and rioting from all of the programs your husband's administration would have proposed as President.

[MattSh]

131. I Don't Care Too Much for Rmoney

Rmoney can't buy me love.

(Apparently there's things Rmoney can't buy Ann either).