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Obama campaign strategists aren't ready to hand over the 2012 election to Mitt Romney after his strong debate showing, but they do want to give him an Academy Award.
To listen to the pundits, Ann Romney is little more than a "corporate wife" (Fox News commentator Juan Williams), a sexist for "putting a sorority girl grin on a description of women's lives" (Slate's Amanda Marcotte), and a woman who "has never worked a day in her life" (Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen).
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The problem with statements like the one made about Ann Romney by Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen is that they are usually unaccompanied by evidence ("The left's war on moms," Comment & Analysis, April 13).
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Just when the furor over Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney's employment status had subsided, here comes President Obama wisecracking about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton drunk-texting him from Cartagena ("Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all," Web, Sunday). Not only was the comment not funny, but it clearly showed that Mr. Obama is taking the women's vote for granted. That's a big mistake.
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In public relations work, you never want yourself or your firm to be the story. Hilary Rosen, a highly paid flack with a history of putting out fires, must have learned that lesson at some point. Why she ignored it during her ill-advised attack on motherhood is hard to say.
In public relations work, you quickly discover that the Hippocratic oath applies: First, do no harm.
The National Organization for Women (NOW) predictably defended Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen's comments that insulted Ann Romney and myriad other stay-at-home moms, thus proving that to the group, conservative women, faith and family are the enemy ("Left just doesn't get what moms really want," Web, Sunday).
Dogs on roofs, dogs on the menu, wars on women, bureaucrats behaving badly — with the drama largely drained from the Republican nominating race and not much on the schedule until August, the campaign's silly season has begun in earnest.
Moms, do you get the feeling the left hasn't a clue about the value of motherhood?
"Party like the GSA in Vegas for less than $823,000," proclaims Shindigz, an Indiana-based party planning company that promises "to teach people how to party like federal agency rock stars." Well. Gee. That was quick.
Rosen versus Romney is not exactly high noon at the Powder Puff Arena. But it provides an insight or two in the gender games at the center of the culture: Trendy lesbian working mom, a public relations strategist raising adopted children, attacks traditional super mom for staying home to raise five sons.
During the primaries, she gave her critics fodder when she told a Fox News host, "I don't even consider myself wealthy," a gaffe that played into her image, fair or not, as an entitled and removed Stepford wife.
"Spare me the faux anger from the right who view the issue of women's rights and advancement as a way to score political points," she vented in a post that might as well have been titled "Doing Harm: The Hilary Rosen Guide to Crisis PR."
