Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion – and with politics some people have stronger views than others. I’m not a political person (which may seem sad and un-American, but honestly — I’m a bit intimidated by politics). My boss was/is attending the convention, so I tuned in to watch. I found Ann Romney so empowering and real. Maybe because I didn’t really have any expectations – or maybe because I didn’t know any background on her or her husband – other than a few media blurbs – but boy was I impressed. Her approach was so honest and compassionate. I personally loved when she said that people say she and her husband have a fairytale marriage and she said she’s never read a storybook that had a chapter for Cancer or Multiple Sclerosis. Ugh, so true!

I personally did not find her speech “bringing men down” – – – to me, she spoke “my” truth. Maybe that’s why I found her so relatable. For your readers, that value your opinion, I felt the need to post the portion of the transcript that you referred to so they can see what was said verbatim.

All political party opinions aside – I feel like this conversation could have been one I shared with any of my friends on a walk around our neighborhood and for that I am grateful that I tuned in and listened to her viewpoints.

Hopefully, everyone can formulate their own opinions. Here’s a portion of what she had to say…

Sometimes, I think that, late at night, if we were all
silent for just a few moments and listened carefully, we could
hear a collective sigh from the moms and dads across America who
made it through another day, and know that they will make it
through another one tomorrow. But in the end of that day moment,
they just aren’t sure how.

And if you listen carefully, you’ll hear the women sighing
a little bit more than the men. It’s how it is, isn’t it? It’s
the moms who have always had to work a little harder to make
everything right. It’s the mom’s of this nation, single,
married, widowed, who really hold the country together. We’re
the mothers. We’re the wives. We’re the grandmothers. We’re
the big sisters. We’re the little sisters and we are the
daughters.

You know it’s true, don’t you?

I love you, women! And I hear your voices. Those are my favorite fans down
there.

You are the ones that have to do a little bit more and you
know what it is like to earn a little bit harder earn the
respect you deserve at work and then you come home to help with
the book report just because it has to be done.

You know what those late-night phone calls with an elderly
parent are like, and those long weekend drives just to see how
they’re doing.

You know the fastest route to the local emergency room and
which doctors actually answers the phone call when you call at
night, and by the way, I know all about that.

You know what it is like to sit in that graduation ceremony
and wonder how it was that so many long days turned into years
that went by so quickly. You are the best of America.

I don’t think she was “men-slamming” at all. Regardless of how your household operates, the sad truth is that in most families, women take on the majority of cooking/cleaning/child-rearing responsibilities. I will agree that her speech didn’t do much to “lift women up”, but I think her intention was to appeal to suburban married women with children, who probably do relate to her message there. What really pissed me off about her speech (and the GOP in general), is that she completely ignored single women, LGBTQ women, or anyone with an “untraditional” lifestyle. I agree with you that it definitely seems like she loves her husband, but it also seems like she really just has no clue what she’s talking about when it comes to feminism or the plight of modern women.