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TOM KLUDT MAY 30, 2014, 2:42 PM EDT
As he sung the praises of GOP Senate hopeful Joni Ernst in Iowa on Friday, Mitt Romney made a remark that harkened back to a moment that his 2012 campaign feverishly exploited.
Appearing alongside Ernst in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Romney hailed the conservative upstart as a "real Iowan in a lot of respects."
"She was raised here, she worked on a farm," Romney told the crowd, as quoted by the Des Moines Register. "She didn't just sit at home needle-pointing, as you know, she was doing some work on the farm squealing work on the farm." He was referring to a memorable television ad from the Ernst campaign, but some Democrats thought it was a rich line coming from Romney.
Lis Smith @Lis_Smith
.@MittRomney says shld vote for woman bc she didn't just "sit at home." What's his prob w stay at home moms? #2012
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/05/30/romney-ernst-rally-iowa/9764641/
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mitt-romney-joni-ernst-stay-at-home-needle-pointing
Blue Owl
(50,507 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Democratic Party persuasion making this statement; "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life." And being torn to shreds by the wing nut brigade. I cannot wait to learn how the same brigade responds to Mitwit's comment today.
valerief
(53,235 posts)by labeling us all as needlepointers (not that there's anything wrong with needlepointing, but men do it, too).
http://www.amazon.com/Rosey-Griers-Needlepoint-Men-Grier/dp/0802704212/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401478400&sr=8-1&keywords=rosey+grier+needlepoint
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)only raised 250 head of hogs as a teenager, I also know how to needlepoint, knit, crochet, and tat! Also drove tractors, plowed, baled hay, and judged beef cattle.
tanyev
(42,620 posts)Mitt simply cannot pull off the folksy "47% talk", but he keeps trying.