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Subscribe to RSSMitt Romney voiced support on Thursday for women being allowed to join the storied Augusta National Golf Club.
A reporter shouted a question to Romney while he was working the ropeline following an event in Pennsylvania about whether women should be able to join the club, which is the home of the annual golf tournament, The Masters.
"Well of course," Romney said. "I'm not a member of Augusta. I don't know if I would qualify -- my golf game is not that good -- but certainly if I were a member and if I could run Augusta which isn't likely to happen but of course I'd have women in Augusta. Sure."
The question to Romney came after the White House said Thursday morning that President Obama supports women being allowed to join the course.
The line of questioning comes amid scrutiny of the club's policy in light of IBM's hiring of Ginni Rometty as its CEO. The CEO of IBM has traditionally enjoyed a membership at Augusta, where the Masters are being played this weekend.
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Mitt Romney can go straight to hell. In America, we value individual freedom, not government interference. Tell Romney to put the women in charge of the Mormon Church!
You value freedom but in the same breath you demand that romney dictates forced change on an entire religion. Is that about right?
Some of you guys on here are the angriest most hateful people I have ever heard , you almost sound like that moron ... Howard Dean , is he not disgusting or what ?????????
You guys ramble cause Romney said he would invite women to Augusta , my god what would you have said if he objected ..... is it all HATE with you guys ????? is no one entitled to a different opinion without being villified ?????? Like or hate Romney , anyone can tell he is just a nice guy , the kind of guy most wished they had for a father or grand father not unlike BO .......... I can honestly say I disagree with most of what BO says , but in light of our differences I still know him to be a nice guy ......................... Some of you need to at very least learn to be tolerant of others .... try watching Howard Dean and his rants for an hour and think that maybe that could be you ????
As a female, I think both Mitt and Obama are wrong. Augusta has always been a pure men's club. There is nothing wrong with that. There are also pure women's clubs that are never mentioned.
I see nothing wrong with a men's club, and I see nothing wrong with a women's club. They have been here for a long time. Why change it? Go to a public golf course, you have blue T's, white T's, and red T's. Normally the red T's are for the women.
And yes, I do play at playing golf, I'm not very good at it, but I do enjoy the game, and play with both men and other women. It's one game where you can hear all kinds of different words, from both the men and women.
So both Mitt and Obama can, in my opinon, do what is physically impossible and highly immoral.
Romney, Please shut-up, don't give us all away. We hate women and all those that pretend to be one...oh, excuse me, we have always loved and respected LADIES. HOWEVER, there are so few around these day's...........
Someone needs to now ask Mr. Romney if he would support women being given more leadership positions in his church--like being ward presidents, on the council of 12 elders, etc
Attacking an entire religion just to get in some partisan politics, Both progressive and vile.
WTF only a hundred years too late. Fat cats useless b.s.
Oh maybe they will approve of women voting now too.
The day after Tiger Woods is allowed to compete for LPGA money.
uh oh, brother willard etch a sketch is already moving toward the middle. it was only a decade and so ago that real conservatives were avowing that as a private club augusta national could keep black people from becoming members. see, you let one oppressed minority have their way, the rest of them start getting uppity, too.
geez..... why can't a group of guys choose to hang out with only guys??????????? Why is this an issue? If women aren't welcome, what does it say about a woman that wants to join? Why not start your own women's club? Do you think men would be as upset about not being able to join? It's a CLUB! There are certain characteristics of clubs....... they have members that fit a certain mold. A certain exclusivity determined by its own members. That's what a Club IS!
It would be like some teen skaters joining the RED HAT Society or whatever that's called.
Forget abortion, contraception, those will be solved if we deal with the real problems. Like the two strips of cloth that constitute a women's bathing suit or such crass activities like breast enlargement.
We need a decency code for women in this country.
If you can not get them to look like a proper woman, how can you expect them to act like a proper woman.
Than decent hard working men of this nation, no longer distracted, corrupted by such blatant sexuality, can get on with the task of rebuilding this great nation.
(Before I get flamed by the wrong people, I am being sarcastic.)
Liberals are targeting more freedoms and trying to distract voters from Genocides,wars poverty,inflation and unemployment. I'm sure it will work on some but it is pathetic. The country has much bigger problems.
Liberals targeting freedoms? hmmm Seems the right is the ones peeking into womens vaginas, popping viagra while denying them insurance for health screenings,throwing probable cause to the wind if it suits thier agenda, allowing elitists and corperations to secretly spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections, allowing vigilaties to persue and kill civilians if they precieve the slightest threat. I'm not buying the stuff you are selling. My crops are doing fine without that much manure.
Sam, you are too confused to follow any type of logic. If you are talking about a sonogram when you say "peeking into women's vaginas" can you explain how to complete the abortion without going into the vagina. Also, I've had at least 10 sonograms and none of them went through my vagina....just gel and a wand on the tummy.
Denying them insurance for health screenings? How so? The problem is that Democrats want to dictate what is in your health insurance policy. Republicans are not taking anything away. They just don't want the federal government dictating what people have to buy. This is not difficult to understand.
Wow. your up early.
What do folks not understand about "Private" clubs ? Augusta Natl. is not a government owned (thank goodness) or public club. It is "Private" and its members decide on the rules. Let the girls with their 23 handicaps go and open their own "private" club that doesn't allow the boys to join. I'm perfectly OK with that. Why do people insist on being admitted to schools and clubs where they are not wanted ?
True enough. So the answer is that anyone choosing to play or belong to Augusta has made thier decision to agree with the biases and bigotries of this club and should be held acccountable by sponsers and those who buy those sponser's products.
Excellent, a consensus at last from opposites sides of the political divide in the US on a fundamental issue of equality.
Now that both Obama and Romney have made their views clear as it relates to the Golfing fraternity, maybe they can both be consistent on the issue of freedom and equality as it relates to that other bastion of the "right" to subjugate women... i.e. their respective churches
I cannot understand why any professional golfer would choose to honor the Masters with his presence above and beyond the honor that is due to the women of honor in his life; mother, wife, daughters.
Where are the men and women of integrity in the PGA who will say "Augusta has made its choice and I have made mine"
Great change requires great sacrifice.
Willard... ever the pandering clown...
Inviting women to join Augusta.. Nice..
Just in time to counter the fact that willard is polling 20 points down to Obama, in swing states, among women..
Coincidence???..... I like grits !!!!!
How about some real questions? If you truely are the liberal media how about the decision by the nonactivist, strickly constitutional guardian supreme court allowing strip searches for all people entering general populations in jails? All of you republican women think about being stripped, asked to crouch and cough and open your vagina for inspection. Yup. Real defenders of liberty those conservative judges. Screw probable cause. Everyone knows a woman caught turning without a signal might be attempting to sneak a weapon into the holding cell.
Better women joining than those GD poor people.
I don't want to come off as sounding like a prick, but I think Augusta should be able to pick and choose who they want as members. Its a private club and because its private they don't have to follow the same laws that public entities have to follow. Furthermore, if a man wanted to join a woman's club he would be hen pecked until he gave up, why should we as me reciprocate when no such quarter is given to men who want to join a woman's club? I mean there are women only fitness clubs and women only membership clubs and men are not allowed to join, is that fair?
oh good, now maybe Barney Frank will be able to play there too, and realize his life long dream... to be a member of the girl scouts.
Great golf this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, a ball, clubs and a beautiful layout, if women want to golf there are 10,357 courses nationwide that will take their fees.
I'm sure this topic is of paramount importance to our Nation's economy and security.
[do libs ever get their heads out of their asses and come up for air every once in a while?]
Mitt's just pandering to try to win back some of the gender gap. Unless he's a woman trying to join the club, or a current member of the club, who cares what he thinks?
To re-hash an old line, I wouldn't want to belong to any club who would have him for a member.
I think someone noticed the gender gap in the polls...
Come on, they already have women their, they are called waitresses.