Tag: Ann Romney

Ann Romney’s Convention Speech Omitted the Fact That She and Mitt Lived on Proceeds from Stocks During Their Hard Times in College

Jon Ponder
Ann Romney reads her speech about hard times she and Mitt faced during their college years from teleprompter at the 2012 Republican National Convention
Ann Romney reads her speech about hard times she and Mitt faced during their college years from teleprompter at the 2012 Republican National Convention

Ann Romney’s speech to the Republican National Convention last night included an anecdote about the hard times she and Mitt faced when they were young — a story intended to assure middle class voters that, despite the fact that the Romneys are multimillionaires, they’re really just regular folks like you and me:

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Sully: The Persistent Oddness of Mitt Romney

Jon Ponder

WTF? If your spouse’s horse were in an Olympic contest, would you not even watch? This is either a fib, designed to insulate him from whatever minimal fallout there is from owning a dressage horse; or it’s true and he’s just unlike other human beings. I mean, Obama makes sure he sees his daughters’ high school sports games. But Romney won’t even watch his wife’s horse at the Olympics?

– Andrew Sullivan at The Dish, reacting Mitt Romney telling a reporter that, even though he is in London for the Games, he will not watch his wife’s horse-dancing competition. “I have to tell you,” Romney said, “This is Ann’s sport. I’m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see it, I will not be watching the event. I hope her horse does well.”

Ann Romney Blames the Dog

Jon Ponder

[He] ate the turkey on the counter. I mean, he had the runs.

– Ann Romney in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in which she blamed Seamus the Irish setter for befouling himself in his kennel while it was strapped to the top of the Romneys’ car during a 12-hour vacation trip. Sawyer did not ask Ann Romney if it was also Seamus’ fault that he ran away after she and her family arrived at their vacation destination.