The Romney Stepford wife, Ann, may have received a standing ovation from conservatives at the RNC, but what if she had not used a teleprompter? The woman's been quoted as making asinine statements like being "glad" that some women don't have the choice of staying at home and must both work and take care of children, so she probably couldn't speak off-the-cuff without stumbling.
It was her first time speaking with a teleprompter, which is probably why she didn't make many mistakes. With it being so close to a presidential election, Mittens can't afford for his sock puppet to make mistakes like she's been known to do. Remember "you people" have been shown all this family wants to show you, right?
"A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt and I have is a real marriage."
She made a stretch, using her past health issues as the crutch that sets her marriage aside from those you read about in fairytales, using a teleprompter the whole time. She made claims that storybook marriages in the fairytales never bring up MS or breast cancer, *yawn* but they surely do involve the pampered princess who has "the help" raise those children and clean her house while the rich husband is away bringing home the bread! This lady is a joke, and she's always been privileged enough even if she did contract health conditions that millions of others end up getting as well. The difference between her and the rest of the breast cancer and MS sufferers? She could afford to throw money at the conditions to rid herself of them while "the help" took care of the rest.
Of course, her teleprompter didn't remind her to think about that...
Of course she's not the only person to rely on teleprompters to deliver speeches. President Barack Obama has used them before to relay policy information to those who listen to him, but he never used one to tell a poignant story about his relationship with his wife and children. He's able to talk about that kind of stuff without messing up!
Crime analyst and profiler Chelsea Hoffman can be found on The Huffington Post, Chelsea Hoffman: Case to Case and many other outlets. Follow @TheRealChelseaH on Twitter or click here to contact Chelsea directly.
recommend
Facebook
Twitter
bookmark 
print
Comments: 10 ( 1 removed by Chelsea Hoffman )
I wondered why she was so giddy when she spoke....I think Mitt might have been a little "sexful" with her backstage before her speech. :)
Flash forward 29 years to the start of Obama's presidency and suddenly it is an indicator of his inability to give a speech without one. Am I missing something or is there some other difference besides the fact that he's black?
She raised 4 boys.
She's a breast cancer survivor.
She has MS.
How nervous would you be if you have to speak to an arena full of 16,000 people and to a world television audience?
She will make a great First Lady.
WOW, I thought feminists weren't supposed to criticize women for what they were wearing. Oh, silly me, I keep forgetting, the dual set of standards.
I am curious, do you believe that anyone who uses a teleprompter when making a personal appeal is some how diminished in your eyes or is it only certain people or groups of people? I ask this because I don;t know how you can be so sure that the President hasn't included a pogiant story in his speeches. I wonder would you include in your distain for those who use written notes or are they some how different than a teleptomter? Do you some how feel women or just Republicans that should not use teleprompters?
I was wondering after Juan Williams' comments about the Romney's life if it is only those who start life with abuse, poverty, illiteracy that we should be allowed to consider as worth hearing about. Or is it that anyone who has financial success should simply discarded and that they do not merit any consideration for how they have lifed their lives or for what they have achieved?
I periodically here the reference to the Stepford wife. I recall the book where the wife were converted into robot like people. How do you define a 'Stepford wife'?