I was at first annoyed to see the Dems cower and retreat at this phoney nonsense.But,long-term,it may be a smart play. The moon howlers on the right will almost certainly self-detonate when the first lady becomes even more visible in this campaign.

I agree with the NBA foul play call. This is absolutely a flop play by the right.

Hilary Rosen was not attacking mothers. She was making the accurate point that Mitt Romney’s gender appeal problem is not helped by him saying that his wife is the source of his information about women’s economic issues today. She was pointing out that Ann Romney wouldn’t know much about this area, since she’s never dealt with the economic challenges most women must handle on a daily basis.

Rosen was combining the two areas where Romney is in serious trouble: 1. GOP actions over the past couple of years have driven women away, particularly in recent times with the Limbaugh attack on Sandra Fluke and the reprehensible state legislation around the country designed to attack womens’ rights. The GOP has an even bigger skeleton that the Dems are exploiting – their refusal to support the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Romney’s own inability to appeal to women is exacerbated by these facts, and his trotting out of his wife like this is a sign to Rosen and most women that he’s way too old fashioned in his thinking. 2. Romney and his wife are quite out of touch with how lower income people than themselves deal with things. Romney has already demonstrated this numerous times, with the 10K bet, with the comment about firing people, and with his general sense of entitlement. Romney’s new refusal to publish his tax info is another sign of this – it looks like he’ll have another embarassingly low number for what he actually paid. (Obama by contrast paid 20+ percent, and also donated 22 percent to charity. Add that up and Obama is paying a respectable amount – and he’s willing to pay more.) Romney citing his wife as a source of info on women’s economic issues makes no sense, since she’s never had to do without the amenities the Romneys can easily afford.

Ann Romney would be a fine source of information if you wanted to know about the issues of raising multiple children in a household with a frequently absent husband and father. She would be a fine source of information if you wanted to know about what women go through when fighting diseases like cancer and MS. She would be a fine source of information about how the wealthy try to perform public service. But she is a poor choice if you’re looking to find out what working women in this country are thinking.

This is like an NBA game. The defender is trying to draw an offensive foul, only no foul is committed…so at the slightest hint of contact, the defender intentionally falls to the ground and flails…hoping to convince the refs he was the victim of illegal contact. Conservatives no there’s no foul…but that won’t stop them from acting like there is one.

It’s annoying when NBA players do it, and it’s even more annoying when politicians do it. It’s straight up disingenuous.

@truman. Exactly! From now on, ALL non-neocons need to make sure that they articulate their points without giving the neocons any tidbits to use to lie, twist and spin like they’ve done with Rosen’s accurate comment. Rosen herself should have clarified her comment by saying something like “Ann Rmoney hasn’t had to work outside the home to earn an income and therefore can’t possibly relate to women in the workforce and their economic struggles.”

@visitor 55. Right on. This Saint Ann flail is but an early preview of the nonsense that Turdblossom and his ilk will toss at the Obama campaign.

Karl Rove is suffering the serious effects of a corporate dick up his ass…..

What Rosen said was true. Ann Rmoney is not a representative of America’s stay at home moms. How many stay at home moms have multiple residences, multiple vehicles, 5 house keepers, a couple of nannies, married to a multi-millionaire, and don’t have to worry about where their next meal is coming from?

But it doesn’t really matter what Rosen actually said. The stupid mindless FoxGOPTV sheep have been instructed to rebleat that President Obama via Rosen was attacking stay at home moms and it’s the democrats who are waging a war on women. And the stupid mindless FoxGOPTV sheep always do what their told.

The Dems are trying to eliminate this as a GOP talking point, so they’re caving as fast as they can and running away from Rosen even faster.

Which is a ridiculous thing to do, as your post makes clear.

Why Democrats are quivering and retreating at the faux outrage from the right, is a mystery.