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Subscribe to RSSAMHERST, NH -- Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, took a brief break from a family vacation to press the flesh here in the Granite State.
Speaking to a group of about 20 voters in woodsy Amherst, Mrs. Romney explained why she's "100%" supporting her husband's second presidential campaign.
"After the last campaign, I let everyone know -- and I even had a camera to record -- it that I would never do that again,” she chuckled.
“I said that, however, after every pregnancy. Maybe my husband didn't really believe me,” she said. (The Romneys have five boys.)
"America needs to have a turnaround, and I thought you know, there's only one guy I know who really knows how to do turnarounds. That's Mitt Romney."
She cast this cycle’s campaign as a full family effort, with support from all 16 grandchildren. One of the Romney granddaughters will be taking a year off to work on the campaign. The 16-year-old will be home-schooled on the trail.
Romney then turned her focus on jobs, mentioning the word more than 15 times in her brief remarks.
“People who are independent, who have voted for the Democratic Party all their lives, if they're concerned about a job, they outta really consider this next election,” Romney told NBC News.
Mrs. Romney said the American economy needs a leader who has “had a job in the private sector” who “understands how jobs come and go.”
Democrats were quick to respond to Ann Romney touting her husband's economic record, citing statistics that Massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 in the nation for job creation while Romney was governor from 2003 to 2007.
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Mrs. Romney, the only thing your husband knows how to turn around is the truth and his positions over the years. As for jobs, he only knows how to buy a company, lay off or outsource over seas half the work force, and turnaround and sell off the company. Mrs. Romney, you need to open your eyes as to the snakeoil salesman Mr. Romney truly is.
Ann Romney always reminds me of the Martha Stewart model of domesticity, and I applaud her for her courage in facing her health issues. Like me, she is a breast cancer survivor. Those are good things.
But here's what she said about her husband:
This necessarily causes me to ask:
Is she talking about those "turnarounds" where you gut a company, fire all the employees, and then sell of the assets for a big profit? One of those venture capitalist "turnarounds"?
One of those job-killing "turnarounds" in which Romney himself claimed to be only a passive investor when someone criticized him for claiming status as a job creator?
Those "turnarounds"?
I see.
Well, Ann Romney has one thing right. Her husband is fully in tune with what is happening in Washington AND with what is happening over and over again in this economy today.
But that's NOT such a good thing.
Do you think Ann Romney knows the difference between turnarounds and flip-flops? Doubt it.
Ann Romney is a classy lady. She's like Laura Bush, soft spoken and genuine but their husbands, thanks but no thanks.
Turnarounds or flip/flops?
Or maybe she's talking about turning around an old, dysfunctional health care system and making it a model for the nation to emulate.
That "turnaround"?
Flip flops and turnarounds remind me of this ....
What if the hokey pokey really IS what Mitt Romney is all about?
"woodsy Amherst" is filled with wealthy donors. Who says money doesn't grow on trees?
I agree. Anyone who is thinking "jobs" should really think long and hard. About the do-nothing Party of NO we've all come to know and hate and vote the crumbs out. No one who has a grain of common sense will be voting Republican for a long time to come.
What wife # is she? Didn't his father or grand father have 11 wife's?
Actually LBO firms provide a very needed service in a Free Market System.... When companies are on the virge of Bankruptcy and in a position where everyone will lose their job it is good to have an LBO firm do the Math, evaluste the operation and the business and then buy the company, reorganize and begin anew.... Several companies who would have gone doen otherwise flourish today because of LBO Companies.... I worked for one of them and received alot of oportunity with the changed compan.... Some of the employees were let go, some units of the business were closed and new businesses were added on and as a result it does well today and alot of people have jobs that they would have otherwise lost.