Ann Romney/Hilary Rosen

[BigV]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

I'm not sure on the context and don't care enough to find it but is it possible he just said that as a joke or in a different context?

Romney has issues but one of them isn't his intelligence. I don't believe in a second that Romney actually gets all his advice about women voters from his wife. The only way that could remotely be true is if his wife went out and talked to thousands and thousands of women voters from all classes. Even that is sketchy because it is definitely not Romney's style.

I do have issues with Romney's intelligence. And this particular kerfuffle is just another instance of several that make me question his depth of understanding about the economic and social world **I** live in. He has not shown much, if any, evidence that he knows practically anything about it.

He's made many comments that, taken individually, are groan worthy. "Corporations are people", "I like to fire people", "I don't know about what team he'll wind up with, but I have a couple friends that own football teams and..." And the same with his NASCAR team owner friends. And his fleet of vehicles "two Cadillacs", etc. Etc. Etc. They're tossed off so casually, so... naturally that they seem real. I believe they are real. And I take this as pretty reliable evidence that his "intelligence" on the subject of how I live is meager at best. It's good that he seeks input from others, no one knows everything, no one. Good on him. And his wife is as good a source as any for advice (though I don't know much about her creds) since she almost certainly has his (and their) best interests at heart. But the same disconnect applies for her when it comes to being able to "speak for" most women. I find the suggestion that she knows much about the workaday lives of "most women" laughable. And the economic disconnect is the major piece of that.

That Mitt Romney would tout Ann as a valid, informed source of good data about "what women want" (so to speak) is yet another of these faux pas (what is the plural??? whatever). He doesn't impress me with his intelligence when it comes to describing his inner dialog like this.

Business smart? Well, he sure has gotten results. Does he have experience governing? Yes. Is he like me? No, not really. And when he talks about what my life is like, me, the 99%, he shows his lack of understanding. I don't find that comforting. I find his delusion somewhat alarming.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by BigV

They're tossed off so casually, so... naturally that they seem real. I believe they are real. And I take this as pretty reliable evidence that his "intelligence" on the subject of how I live is meager at best.

But he's keenly aware of how the demographic he intends to serve live.