In Omaha for a closed to the press fundraiser for her husband Friday, Mrs. Romney was supposed to give interviews to several reporters but canceled due to the controversy over her blow up at Republicans on a radio interview, in which she ordered Mitt’s Republican critics to “stop it.”
Omaha.com reported:
She had scheduled interviews with The World-Herald and other reporters but canceled after controversy erupted this week over her comments to a public radio station in Iowa about her husband’s Republican critics.
She appeared at the luncheon, $250-per-plate fundraiser at the Embassy Suites and La Vista Conference Center. The event was closed to reporters.
Remember when Mitt Romney told the donors at the Florida fundraiser that he wasn’t using his wife Ann too much so that people didn’t get sick of her? That day appears to have arrived. It may have been her meltdown at Mitt’s Republican critics that did it.
After saying how “hard” campaigning was, Ann told Radio Iowa:
“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring. This is hard and, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”
Ann Romney was supposed to be Mitt’s secret weapon, but apparently that isn’t working out very well. For now, reporters will be stuck with Mitt, who answered a reporter’s questions about whether he was going to start campaigning harder now by saying, “Ha ha. We’re in the stretch aren’t we? Look at those clouds. It’s beautiful. Look at those things.”
The debates should be entertaining to say the least.
Mrs. Romney’s plane made an emergency landing in Denver, Colorado due to an electrical fire, but thankfully all were safe. She landed later in Los Angeles.
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Reynardine
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 9:17 am
The campaign must have gotten wind that she was acquiring the reputation of a potential First Harpy.
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Nefer
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:06 am
Oh, that’s perfect!
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Older_Wiser
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 9:26 am
I think if I were Queen Ann, I’d go into hiding after her, and his, debacles.
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Jim
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Marie Anntoinette?
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Reynardine
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Dansons la Carmagnole!
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Thomas Johnson
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 9:50 am
That’s the thing, “those people” (and I don’t mean US “those people” but THEM “those people”) do tend to feel a wee bit privileged and entitled and tend to get a wee bit upset when they don’t get what they want in the way they want it. Temper tantrum anyone? I believe the richie riches call it a “fit of peak.”
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Thomas Johnson
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 9:52 am
Pique rather. Oh! How droll.
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Churchlady
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:03 am
She never appeared warm and fuzzy but a driven, ambitious person. Mitt’s narcissism dovetails well with hers. Those are precisely the characteristics this nation does NOT need. People driven for personal acquisition are the dead opposite of what is required of national leaders. I do NOT want a businessman – or, in Mitt’s case, a predatory financier – in public office. I do not want his avaricious wife either. I don’t care if they think this is hard – think of what the Obamas have endured and then, Ann, shut up.
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Sandra
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:30 am
I take note of her claiming he’ll be ‘running’ the country not ‘serving’ the country and her citizens. This woman has an ego bigger than her brain. I think her remark last year?, ‘it’s our turn’ should have been a wake up call for everyone who was listening. This is a playground bully who thinks she’s entitled to anything she wants therefore she must get it, she doesn’t believe in sharing or playing nice. Everything seems to be hard work for her if she has to sweat a little to acheive it. She doesn’t know what hard work really is, never having to work for anything in her ‘moneyed’ life.
Thank God for FL Michelle Obama who despite all the negatives and vile stuff thrown at her, is still one very classy, intelligent, warm woman of vast internal strength. She has shown us all how it can and should be done. Blessings to her and her beautiful family.
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Joshua Kricker
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Good catch. I didn’t catch that at first. Clearly they think in terms of “running the country” rather than serving the public.
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A.J. Peterson
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Dear Sandra, Very nice post, and yes indeed you can tell a lot about a person by how they handle stress. I can’t wait until November!The Obama’s never get loud,or mean. Ann’s showing her true colors!
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GLORIA
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 6:35 pm
I AM AGREE
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Trina
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 12:01 am
Great point. Veruca Salt is all grown up! I want to run the country noooooooow!
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Ruth
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Absolutely right!
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Rosemary Breslin
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:34 am
Ha ha is RIGHT!
For now, reporters will be stuck with Mitt, who answered a reporter’s questions about whether he was going to start campaigning harder now by saying,
“Ha ha. We’re in the stretch aren’t we? Look at those clouds. It’s beautiful. Look at those things.”…. *
*… “they’re just the right height for the trees.”
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Paddypaws
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:40 am
That bizarre crap Mitt said just gave me a flashback to Dr. Demento:
Wellllll, I got a little bit tired of
Walking down the road one day, doo-dah, doo-dah.
I got a little bit tired of walking down this old blinding yellow road,
So pulled my little tired old body off to a little rest area
And lo and behold there’s a little field of little red flowers out there,
And they, heh, smelled so good. Whoa.
I was gettin’ pretty tired and they smelled so good, and I
Figured, well, I’ll just stretch out in this little field of
POPPIES! POPPIES! POPPIES! poppies!
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Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:41 am
LOL
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Larry
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Back when I was a kid
things were going swell
’til something happened
blew everything to Hell!
One night my Daddy stumbled in
All pale and weak
Said “The woman up the block
just gave birth to a geek.”
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Jeanabella
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:38 am
Anne is treated very well by the MSM despite pointing out what she said, & I can’t help but wonder if our First Lady would be treated the same way if she spoke the same words.
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Reynardine
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:17 am
Never. She’d be an uppity angry black woman.
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Magdalena
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Which, btw, we ALL know she’s NOT!
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Sharon Potts
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:47 am
They just can’t do anything right, can they? She is such a snob. If she thinks this is hard on them, imagine how hard it is on the Obamas. And they have never once on record whined and complained about the constant vicious onslaught of attacks against them.
Sorry, Queen Ann, if you can’t take the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen. Go back to your life of privilege where you can boss around the illegal aliens who work for you.
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mjh
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 4:54 am
“Sorry, Queen Ann, if you can’t take the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen.”
I suspect she spends little enough time there, anyway . . .
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Gorgegirl
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 10:31 pm
When Ann Romney gave her speech at the RNC, she put out her hands and yelled “I Love You Women”. Yuck. She looked like she was trying out for a Marilyn Monroe role and was failing miserably.
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Michael Hughes
Sep. 24th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Who cares if this is hard! It should be hard. We have some tough issues fcing our country and she better buck up for some harder questions than what they have up until now.
This rich A-Hole doesn’t know hard until she tries running a house hold and paying for an education and saving for a retirement and maintaining any king of life from the perspective of the middie class.
With money falling out of her you know what … she doesn’t have any idea about hard. Stuff it Ann.
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Annie
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:52 am
I predict she suddenly has a “health crisis” to avoid campaigning and garner some “sympathy” votes..
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A.J. Peterson
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 1:20 pm
I’ll bet your right Annie. Good thing she has a horse we paid for as therapy. She could beat the staff to help ease the stress too. I would love to see Mrs. Obama offer her a lunch date to help her deal with the stress.
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Gorgegirl
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 10:33 pm
Wouldn’t that just be the coolest thing Michelle could do? Especially if it is a lunch with the group of kids who have helped with the garden.
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froggyalley
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:54 am
I will not be scolded by some shrieking old harridan that is the same age as I am. I’m as good as she is, and everyone reading this is as good as I am.
Go home and scold your “staff”. That’s what they get paid for.
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A Walkaway
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:12 am
I don’t see how they could “keep” staff, unless they had some sort of hold over them. The people working for them are probably coerced in some way (maybe by the Mormon church?).
In fact, I’d bet that working for the Romneys as personal staff is about as hellish an existence as being poor in this country… because of their attitudes and greed.
I’d also bet that they’re bad tight-wads when it comes to people working for them… and probably Bain Capital was just an extension of their personal attitudes.
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Magdalena
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Since it is the “Mormon” way not to hire outsiders they more than likely have church members serving them. Isn’t Romney a Bishop or something like that? The members of the church that “serve” them are told that they are priviledged to serve them as they are the higher ups and their reward will come to them in heaven. This being their mantra the Romneys probably don’t pay them either
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Barry Roope
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:54 am
I can’t believe they ever thought Ann Romney would be a secret weapon for the campaign, every time I’ve seen her speak, I like her less and less. She literally cannot hide her disgust and contempt for the very people she hopes he husband will be the leader of. She seems to be bitter about the fact, that Americans like to know something about the people they elect to the Presidency, she acts as though we should just give them the White House, because as she puts it, “It’s our turn”. Ann Romney would do a big favor to her husband by shutting up and trying to control the contempt she obviously has for the general electorate.
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Jo Hargis
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:08 am
What’s so funny is that I really believe they thought Queen Ann could be the counterpart to Barack’s Michelle.
Oh, how funny is that! Michelle Obama so far outclasses Queen Ann, I can’t even describe it. Look at all the utter CRAP the Obamas have had to endure the last four years just in personal attacks alone, and neither of them has ever lost their cool, they’ve both handled it with utmost grace and dignity.
Queen Ann could learn a thing or twelve from Michelle Obama.
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Reynardine
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:22 am
Can you imagine how cool Momney would stay if people started saying she could slice off one of her buttocks and feed an army or that her kids were rape-bait.
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A.J. Peterson
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 1:24 pm
That’s because Barack, and Michelle are real people, not rich people acting like they care. Look at the leaked luncheon speech. Does anyone really think they would lead us rather then lord over us?
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Rick Wigington
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 10:54 am
Welcome to the big leagues. Put on your big girl magic panties, Antoinette. You and Mittens are so not ready to be the First Couple.
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Rho
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:00 am
I think this classic bit of post-punk music says it all.
http://youtu.be/y-jC3H_8Dk4
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rayjorg
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:07 am
As my mother would say. “If her nose gets any higher, she would drown if it rains.” So True!!!
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Danny
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:09 am
Lady Macbeth in action…
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Sally
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:13 am
I was trying to picture her nurturing five rambunctious boys. I suspect “Stop it!” was the nicest thing she told them.
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A.J. Peterson
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 1:27 pm
I’m sure the nannies took a lot of heat off of them. I’ve worked for a lot of people like them. They live in a fantasyland. King, and queen indeed.
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Frank Rommey
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:24 am
This looks like Comedy Central moving their Headquarters to the Mittney Campaign offices… Queen Ann certainly earned a spot in the Fox lineup of “fair and balanced commentators”…
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Rob
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:35 am
People are tired of the Stepford wife already? That’s odd. She’s so engaging and programmed, I mean loving. What’s not to like? Please keep responses to that question under 5 answers to allow others to chime in.
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dari silverman
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:36 am
“but canceled after controversy erupted this week over her comments to a public radio station in Iowa about her husband’s Republican critics.”
so she went on a PUBLIC radio station….you mean the ones that her husband has already said he will pull all money from if he wins…to complain? you just have to love the irony of that…
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Norealnewsusa Robison
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 11:41 am
I believe the ” SMOKING AIRPLANE ” incident, was a MAJOR SCAM designed to get sympathy……well….IT WORKED, I FEEL SORRY FOR HER
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Jackie hamilton-johnson
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 11:47 am
I think tht emergency landing was a way God was tellig her He dnt like ugly!!!!
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j
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Apparently Mitt could not e3nough people to show for his Univision rally abd had some bussed in. Then when the announcer said Mr Romney would speak for 15 minutes and Mr Obama would speak for 1 hour the following day, Romney threw a fit and had the announcer change his beginning announcement.
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Father R. Joseph Owles
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 12:25 pm
These pretty much sum it up for me.
http://www.zazzle.com/nixon_romney-128916053815206861
http://www.zazzle.com/ann_romney_running_is_hard-128840958938617181
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George
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Her plane made an emergency landing in Denver yesterday due to smoke in the cabin. Apparently she was speaking to a reporter and told one too many lies, and her pants burst into flames. Fortunately she was saved from injury by her magic underwear.
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Sharon
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Has she read any of the blatant lies that her husband has said about President Obama? How can a “Christian” do some of the things your husband has done? The republican party spent the last four years doing every thing they could possibly do to stop everything President Obama tried to do. And this has all been done REGARDLESS of how much it hurt the American public, Hang your heads in shame and poor mrs. romney should just pack up and go back to her ivory tower. She just doesn’t have a clue!!!
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Kevin
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Maybe it’s because Mormons are not Christians – even though they market themselves as Christians.
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RailroadMike
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Oh Mrs Romney please. It’s hard riding around in a private jet with servants and cooks to make your husband look good to the public knowing full well he isnt quailifed to be POTUS. Whats hard Mrs. Romney is walking into hospital room of your 36 year old wife and mother of 2 children with a big piece of paper on the front door of her room. “DNR” Do Not Resuscitate. A decision her husband had to make. Because of Prexising Conditions that your husband supports by repealing the New Health Care Law.
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celeste
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Mike, I am so very sorry to hear that. That must have been terribly hard, you have my sympathies.
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D. W. Skinner
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Ann…here’s a newsflash darling… if your own party thinks the two of you are detestable people… well… you just might very well be detestable people.
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Anne
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 3:04 pm
She is a blond, 15-year-older, elitist version of Sarah Palin. Apparently, she is oblivious of all the hatred and racism the Obamas have been subjected to since 2008, and her lying, ethically challenged husband has added to it with all his easily disproven lies that he tells in the well-founded belief that some gullible fools will believe enough of them to foolishly vote for him. She does nothing to humanize him at all, and she proves with her thin-skinned arrogance that the two of them deserve each other. They also deserve to be permanently deprived of any hope of living in the White House.
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fredric
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 3:04 pm
the entitled little c**t has decided that she’s not going to be forced to mingle with “you people” any more since the campaign is over any way.
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Kenneth Sloan
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 4:41 pm
First Lady? Try Queen Bee!
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Mark
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Let them eat cake…
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mjh
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 5:32 pm
“Ann Romney was supposed to be Mitt’s secret weapon, but apparently that isn’t working out very well.”
Sure it is — she’s a WMD {Weapon of Mass Domineering}
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Ardiva
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Both Romney’s are a disgrace to the Mormon Church. After seeing and hearing them, I certainly would NOT want to be a member of the LDS church.
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thecharliescott
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 9:22 pm
I’ve got news for you. We once rented a house from a Mormon, bought a house from another Mormon, the real-estate agent was a Mormon as was the closing attorney. Mittens and Annie are quintessential Mormons. They will screw you any way they can. I could write paragraphs about the shenanigans we endured from the aforementioned bunch of thieves and liars.
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omomma
Sep. 22nd, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Really, can you imagine Michelle Obama, or, for that matter, Laura Bush, flouncing off in a huff over all the insults that were and are hurled at their husbands and themselves?
Ann Romney is the secret weapon all right, primed and ready to shoot Mitt in the other foot, the one that hasn’t been shot up by him already.
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ruby
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 1:06 am
Ann Romney, instead of helping Mitt will be the one
who will ruin him!
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Mamamamie
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 1:33 am
The Obamas have more class in their pinkie nails than these two wanna-be rulers.
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Jamie Godwin
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 6:32 am
Mz Ann! You do look a mess with your feathers all ruffled.. Lol
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Tomiwa
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 7:35 am
Being president doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are…”
Very true words.
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Kariann Hart
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 8:20 am
Ann Romney lacks that warmth and understanding we expect from our First Ladies. Both Romneys have shown to be arrogant, contemptible elitists who seemed to think they deserve to “run” the country rather than serve the country. I hope people aren’t fooled.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 8:36 am
And thats the key to her. She lacks that warmth and understanding.
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passnthru2
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 10:41 am
all political candidates and appointees should be required to take Dr Hares ‘Psychopathy Spectrum Test’. then i believe we could get our government working again. a psychopath can not represent the people they are elected to represent. they are incapable of serving anyone other than themselves, therefore disqualifying themselves for public service. weed em out, get this country working again.
good Journey…
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Jayne
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 3:59 pm
She thinks campaigning is hard? Think Mitt thinks so also since he doesn’t do a whole lot of it – does more fundraisers with the 1% crowd then appearance before the “regular” GOP crowd – you know, the old white guys who hate Obama!
If both of them think campaigning is hard what the hell do they think running the country is? A walk in the park?
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Christine
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I knew I would not have to search overlong before I found a site like this. Ann Romney has only blown the lid off of a pot which we all knew was simmering. She has a terrible disease. However, that does not give her the license to commandeer the White House nor does it give her the clout to abuse her fellow citizens.
She does not get that that is one of her jobs–to be a good citizen. She truly has a “queen” complex. Let us hope and pray that this would-be queen is never allowed completely out of the closet she has pretty well abandoned by her ill mannered behavior. Her spiteful show of temper belies any qualities which might have recommended her for First Lady.
It is just too ugly to contemplate. Sort of like the Queen of Hearts in Alice and Wonderland. Remember?! Childhood’s worst nightmare. And Mittens her Mad Hatter!
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ibwilliamwsi
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 10:47 pm
I think that the most pitiful thing about the Romney is that they really believe that they are likeable people.
Hint to the Romneys – when you’re THAT wealthy, you can never really know what your “friends” think of you. They aren’t that into you. I can say that because I really don’t care if it hurts your feelings.
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Pita
Sep. 23rd, 2012 at 11:40 pm
You know what they say – “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen…….Oh, wait….. she’s never been in a kitchen????? This is sooooo haaaarrrrd!
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Gary Vaughn
Sep. 26th, 2012 at 4:58 am
The fundraiser was closed to reporters. And I will bet Mitt’s 10 thousand bucks that the staff and servers were strip searched before being allowed to work, no hidden cell phone cameras here.
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