Ann Romney - A Whining Hypocrite

Some people can dish it out but don't like it when they and their spouses are on the receiving end.  Even when the things being said about them is pretty much 100% accurate.  A case in point? Ann Romney who is whining that Barack Obama wants to "kill her husband."  Ms. Romney benefited from her husband's rapacious business practices and financial dealings that appear to have hidden assets around the world in order to avoid paying taxes in America.  But God forbid that Barack Obama and Democrats expose these dealings to the public.   And God forbid that Obama remind Americans that her husband wanted to let two-thirds of the U.S. auto industry go bankrupt.  Yes, the woman has been through a lot with her battles with cancer and multiple sclerosis.  But those trials do not give her a license to be a whining, lying bitch.  A column in the Washington Post looks at Ann Romney who clearly doth protest too much.  Here are highlights:

Recently, the Republican presidential candidate’s wife told the Miami Herald that what she most wants the public to know about her is “that I am pretty direct and pretty honest and I don’t pull any punches.’’ Message received, Mrs. R! After your latest remarks about President Obama wanting to ‘kill Romney,’ though, you might consider dialing back on the “kapow.”

But was Ann Romney’s over-the-top assertion that Obama’s campaign strategy can be summed up in two words -- “kill Romney’’ – even an oopsie? I don’t think so, because later in the same joint CBS interview with her husband, she interrupted him to repeat herself.

Asked about the president’s suggestion that Romney lacks compassion, she said, “It makes you realize they’re going to do everything they can to destroy Mitt … I feel like all [Obama’s] doing is saying, ‘Let’s kill this guy.’ ’’

Goodness, madam, didn’t we agree to demilitarize the language of politics after Gabby Giffords was shot last year? I don’t think that Ann Romney was being intentionally incendiary so much as gleefully clueless.  .   .   .   although nothing is more natural than taking criticism of one’s mate to heart, has she so soon forgotten her guy’s own take-no-prisoners handling of his fellow Republicans during the primary season?

So far, nothing the president has said about Mitt matches the meanness of his fellow republican Newt Gingrich’s Florida robocalls accusing Romney of denying kosher food to Holocaust survivors in nursing homes.  The worst the Obama campaign has said, in the ad that pegged him as a “vampire capitalist,’ was on a par with, and in fact inspired by, Rick Perry calling him a “vulture capitalist.”

But Ann Romney distinguished herself Thursday, saying, “Early on, we heard what their strategy was; it was ‘kill Romney.’ That was the memo that came out from their campaign. It’s like, ‘Not when I’m next to him, you better not.’  

In the Thursday interview, the Romneys shared a good long laugh over her response.

Candidly, the more I get to know about both Mitt and Ann Romney, the more I dislike BOTH of them.  She's had some tough things thrown at her, but overall she's a spoiled child of privilege who has no clue what life is like for the rest of us.  Worse yet, I suspect that she doesn't even care.