Ann Romney: All God's women have wings

(William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1867)

It seems that Ann Romney and John Lennon have a lot in common after all.  Her speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida was all about love, love, love.

From Romney's perspective (Ann's, that is), this love would be well-nigh impossible without the shining example of women, women, women.  She talked about a "love so deep that only a mother can fathom it" (fathers and Fathers need not apply).  She talked about the "great collective sigh from

the moms and dads across America who made it through another day," but topped that off with a pronouncement that the women are "sighing a little bit more than the men."

And why is that?  In Romneyville, it's because women "have to work a little harder, to make everything right."  In fact, "it's the moms of this nation – single, married, widowed – who

really hold this country together" (women without children need not apply).  Rather than present some facts and figures to back this up, she simply reiterated (in preacher-like tones):  "You know it's true, don't you?"

Romney then went on to allegedly speak for all of America's women who (in her estimation) neither want nor expect life to be easy.  These "best of America" and "hope of America" fertile females are "too smart to know there aren't easy answers," yet "not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers." 

Enter Mitt. 

Although Ann Romney just presented America's women as "all that plus a bag of diapers" – she goes on to assert that "no one will work harder" and "no one will care more" than Mitt.  Not only that, Mitt will also "move heaven and earth… to make this country a better place to live!"  (Perhaps America's "blessed" women are just great enough to recognize a political "messiah" when they see one…)

Resources

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/28/160216442/transcript-ann-romneys-convention-speech