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While the Romney campaign’s outrage machine was cranking on all cylinders last week over CNN contributor Hilary Rosen’s comments on Ann Romney’s wealth, the victim of Rosen’s barb doesn’t seem too offended — in fact, she’s thrilled. At a closed-door fundraiser last night, Ann Romney revealed that she saw the jab as a political “gift,” NBC News’ Garrett Haake reports:

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Mrs. Romney acknowledged Republicans’ deficit at present with female voters, and urged the women in attendance to talk to their friends, particularly about the economy. She also discussed the criticism she faced this week, and her pride in her role as a mother.

“It was my early birthday present for someone to be critical of me as a mother, and that was really a defining moment, and I loved it,” Mrs. Romney said.

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In case the phoniness of the Romney campaign’s response to “Rosen-gate” wasn’t obvious enough already, Ann Romney’s glib political calculation should make it clear.

Behind closed doors, Rosen’s comments were a “gift.” In public, Ann and her allies were deeply offended by the slight from Rosen. “Now that does bother me,” Ann said in a Fox News interview responding to the jab. On a conference call organized by the Romney campaign, female Republican lawmakers tried to outdo each other in expressing their offense and outraged at Rosen’s comments. http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/16/464859/ann-romney-rosen-gi
ft/ the source if you want, but it's been reported by numerous sources.

The hypocrisy goes even further. Mitt Romney, by his high dudgeon over the remarks, obviously doesn't feel ALL stay-at-home mothers have "dignity" and their work isn't "a job":

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Romney: Welfare Moms Need 'Dignity of Work'

New twists in the saga on working moms: The Romney campaign has hammered Democrats over Hilary Rosen's comment that stay-at-home mom Ann Romney had never worked—a comment Ann Romney called an "early birthday gift." But MSNBC unearths video of Mitt Romney himself arguing that parents on welfare "need to go to work." As governor of Massachusetts, "I said that even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work," Romney told a campaign crowd in the tape from earlier this year.

Romney—who calls on welfare recipients to experience the "dignity of work"—is talking about moms, writes Ezra Klein at the Washington Post. In Romney's view, then, parenting "does not give poor mothers 'the dignity of work.'" Adds Matthew Yglesias at Slate: "The phrase 'the dignity of work' is extremely condescending and ignores precisely the point the Romney camp was trying to make about Ann Romney—unpaid household work is still work and it's still hard." On top of all that, in 1994, Romney pointed out that the world had changed since the 1960s: "Now mom and dad both have to work," Buzzfeed notes. http://www.newser.com/story/144142/romney-welfare-moms-need-dignity-of
-work.html passage from Romney’s book, No Apology: The Case For American Greatness, elaborates on this. In it, he argues that children of “nonworking parents” will be conditioned to have “an indolent and unproductive life:”

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In some quarters, however, the American work ethic is waning. Some people devote themselves to find ways not to work. Some seem to take a perverse kind of pride in being slipshod or lackadaisical. In many cases, where our work culture has deteriorated, shortsighted government policies share a good part of the blame.

Welfare without work erodes the spirit and the sense of self-worth of the recipient. And it conditions the children of nonworking parents to an indolent and unproductive life. Hardworking parents raise hardworking kids; we should recognize that the opposite is also true. The influence of the work habits of our parents and other adults around us as we grow up has lasting impact.

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If nonworking mothers on welfare produce “indolent and unproductive” children, then why doesn’t the same hold true for other women?

No one is questioning the difficulty or value of motherhood, but many critics have pointed out that while Romney’s wife was able to devote herself full time to the work of the house, other women must juggle both home life and a job to supplement their partners’ incoming. Meanwhile, millions of other mothers — including a disproportionate number on welfare — have to do all of this on their own, without a partner. http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/16/465010/romney-nonworking-p
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No surprise to anyone that The Mittster talks out of two sides of his face, nor that anyone on the right will castigate him for this obvious hypocrisy...

Sorry, righties, the "Mommy Wars" were nothing but a political football, much as you'd like to characterize the ACTIONS of Republicans nationwide as no evidence of the war on women.

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It's hard to not look at someone who identifies as a Republican as anything short of mentally deranged at this point - even the non-extreme ones. Just standing by these habitual liars and hypocrites destroys any perception of intellect.

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