"For a moment, [Ann Romney] also separated women voters from the men in their lives, and conferred on us status and perspective and even sanctity that, at the end of that day, was a deep and guilty pleasure."
Can a speech by a woman, for women, draft female voters for Mitt?, Virginia Heffernan
Liz Goodwin talked to delegates about Ann Romney:
“She is like the Nancy Reagan of the 21st century,” said Melissa Gay, a delegate from Tennessee.Gay was originally a Rick Santorum supporter, but she voted unanimously with the rest of the state’s delegates to nominate Romney tonight. Gay said she relates to Ann Romney because she also chose to be a stay-at-home mom. “She’s made motherhood honorable again. Still, in the 21st century, people look down on people who want to stay home and raise their children. And it’s the greatest job on the planet.”
(Ann Romney delivers Welsh cakes to the press (Romney plane en route Tampa; hollybailey)
Ann Romney on her horse Rafalca’s performance today at the Olympics:
“She was consistent and elegant,” Romney told the AP. “She did not disappoint. She thrilled me to death.”
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Mitt Romney has declined to say much about his vice presidential search, but the Republican nominee’s wife offered a new clue: he’s considering a woman.
“We’ve been looking at that,” Ann Romney told CBS News, when asked if her husband should pick a female as his No. 2. “I’d love that option as well. So, you know, there’s a lot of people that Mitt is considering right now.”
Ann Romney drives the jet ski in this family.
“My career choice was to be a mother and I think all of us need to know we need to respect choices women make.”
—Ann Romney responds to Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen’s remark that the wife of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee hasn’t “worked a day in her life.”
Per ABC News’ Emily Friedman, Ann Romney told Baltimore WBAL radio that she’s working to show another side of her husband. Asked about criticism that Romney is “too stiff,” Ann Romney laughed and replied, “I guess we’d better unzip him, and let the real Mitt Romney out because he is not.”
