I have a legitimate question about this Ann Romney thingy

[RockaFowler]

Is she or anyone else trying to say that a Stay at Home mom is the hardest job in the world?? When my parent's divorced in 1975, my mom had to work. It wasn't a matter of choice - she had to. My mother was the hardest working person, let alone mother around. She always made sure that we were fed, clothed and taken care of any way possible.

My mom just recently retired. And she is offended that someone like Ann Romney or stupid Wolf think that what she did was some sort of sacrifice. Ann Romney was allowed to choose her path in life because she had money. My mother had no money, so her path was a matter of life or death. There were 3 other mouths to feed. And my dad refused to pay child support. So she worked 2 jobs to get ahead. But she was always there at night when we got home from school. Why?? Because my mom was the greatest, hardest working person I ever knew.

I think it's wonderful that women can stay at home with their children. I'm glad they have that choice. But for those women, like my mother, that don't or didn't have the choice they are the hardest working people on the planet. The single moms. Something we don't seem to want to talk about a lot. Especially in that stupid media of ours. The single moms who day in and day out take care of their children because they have to and they want to.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

1. Bless your mom & she has a right to be offended - I'm offended - To pretend that there's some noble

CHOICE that can be made or should be made is a bunch of BS - Most Mom's are all working double / triple time (work, kids, husbands, aging parents, etc.) I get very upset when I listen to this holier than thou crap coming from Rmoney's lips.

[RockaFowler]

2. Thanks

Hug to another great working mother

[RandySF]

3. What the Republicans are trying to do..

is suggest that Rosen and other Democrats do not value the work that stay-at-home moms put in, never mind the fact that she had more than enough resources available to her.

[patricia92243]

4. Stay at home moms are a small minority. From a political point of view - who is it best to

offend - the minority - or the majority of working moms/women.

Seems a simple choice to me.

[Cleita]

5. Back on another planet during the beginnings of feminism, NOW actually proposed that

women, who stayed at home to raise their children, should receive some sort of salary for doing so. Many countries actually do something like this giving women a family allowance to help raise their children because they are sacrificing the salary from working outside the home. I don't know if this would have helped your mother, maybe only to have to work one job instead of two, but I liked the thinking. Too bad we don't live on that planet anymore.

Anyway, your mom is a hero and she deserves to be honored for doing what had to be a very hard thing to do.

[Bolo Boffin]

7. Colbert had a guest on a while back discussing this.

Colbert in character suggested his "plan", which was that all women would go next door to their neighbor's house and do all the woman chores as their "job," covering all the houses in his 1950's America. The guest (cannot remember who to my chagrin) instantly batted back that she was in favor of that, because at least women would be paying into their Social Security that way.

It was one of the few times I ever saw Colbert break character willingly. He grinned so wide and shook the lady's hand. I've got to find that clip.

[BOHICA12]

6. No, she is saying that the Stay-at-Home Mom role is Work ....

and drove through a opening Rosen so clumsily opened for her in her ineptness. And, stay at home moms do have legitimate opinions formed by their experience.

[opihimoimoi]

8. she misses the point(on purps of course). She cannot possibly know what a working mom goes through

on a daily basis....this is why her husband is doing so poorly...bum advice...

[Great Caesars Ghost]

9. Consequences will be dealt to those who offended the mothers who HAVE to work.

[emulatorloo]

10. She's trying to distract from the Republican War on Women

and her husband's support for that war.

[jp11]

11. No idea, the answers I've seen are mostly aimed at tossing out a talking point to treat moms like a

special interest group that need to be placated or to be used to score political points.

I think disabling IEDS is a tougher job than caring for your kids, I think cleaning out sewers is a tougher job than taking care of your kids, because taking care of your kids isn't a job. IT is 'work' as in it isn't 'easy' but it isn't a job like being ordered around by some a&& and having to take other people's crap or suffer conditions that suck the life out of you while you toil at it.

The point however isn't what is the hardest job but to use this silly media scandal for one's own political gain. This is one instance where I see both sides doing it, republicans invented this, blew it out of proportion because they need it being so out of touch and democrats pounced on the chance to score points by dumping on Hillary Rosen to distance themselves from the republican lie of 'democrats hate moms' while making their own effort to kiss up to moms.

I was pleased to tell my dad he had it easy raising two kids on his own while working a rotating shift in a factory after I saw President Obama's take on the 'scandal'.