Ann Romney

In her attempt to discredit Ann Romney's speech to women at the Republican Convention, Ruth Marcus disparaged stay-at-home parents [" Ann Romney's pander ," Washington Forum, Aug. 31]. By repeating and embracing Hilary Rosen's offensive remark that Ann Romney "never worked a day in her life," Ms. Marcus asserted that Ms. Romney's message was disingenuous. Ms. Marcus seems to believe that because Ms. Romney hasn't struggled financially, she doesn't know what it's like to be stretched too thin.

In his March 5 PostPartisan blog excerpt, "Post-elec tion sour grapes" [op-ed], Jonathan Capehart cynically suggested that Ann Romney's admission during an interview that she shed tears over her husband's election loss and found it "very hard" was because she, according to previous reporting in The Post, "believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny. " Mr. Capehart concluded that Ms. Romney needs to quit the waterworks and move on. As a parent and concerned citizen, I spent every day of last year's presidential...

Regarding the May 4 Style article " Where even bird blouse is political prey ": Please don't be too hard on Ann Romney. With only five sons, she never had a teenage daughter to say, "Mom! You're not going to wear that !" Joan Hoover, Chevy Chase

Ann Romney said one thing during her husband's presidential run that no one can dispute. "This is hard," she said, referring to the slog. (Actually, being president is hard, too, as George W. Bush once noted 11 times in a single debate.) Here's one campaign call, though, that should never have been a head-scratcher: Running on white resentment is not a winning strategy, and the next Republican who tries it will lose, too. Lyndon B. Johnson knew when he pushed through civil rights legislation that the Jim Crow...

Ann Romney talks openly about her love of horses. Ever since her multiple sclerosis was diagnosed more than a decade ago, the presidential candidate's wife has turned to riding for therapy and relaxation. But her simple pastoral hobby has become more complicated as it has become more competitive, and she is less open about her involvement in dressage, a rarefied, ritualized sport often referred to as "horse ballet. " She has competed in amateur rounds of major dressage tournaments.

TAMPA Loved the ironing board. Hated the patronizing pander to women. The most affecting part of Ann Romney's convention speech was — no surprise here — the personal testimonial. Her description of "this boy I met at a high school dance," tall and nervous, polite to her folks but "really glad when my parents weren't around. " Early married life in a basement apartment, eating tuna fish and pasta on a fold-down ironing board-turned-dining table. The 22-year-old Ann, "probably like every other girl who finds...

Ann Romney wore a $990 blouse on a morning TV show Tuesday and the media want to make sure you know about it, because oh no, she didn't. Does the blouse prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Romneys are out of touch with the people? Or does the blouse merely prove that Ann Romney is — like many other wives in politics — a presentable, upper-class woman who purchased it because she liked it and could afford it, and that we should focus instead on matters that truly affect the United States of America?

Ann Romney spent Wednesday courting voters at several events including a ‘Women for Mitt' rally and a Latino Coalition luncheon. As Melinda Henneberger wrote : If you liked Ann Romney in prime time on Tuesday, then you would have loved her on Wednesday. At a "Women for Mitt" event, her five daughters-in-law took turns praising her as a "real, modern feminist" who taught them to cook, "shop for heels," and be the kind of wife who according to Laurie Romney, Matt's wife , remembers "not to weigh him down...

One week after conquering an overtly hostile kitchen on ABC's "Good Morning America," Ann Romney bravely rushed in again where her husband apparently feared to tread, sitting with the sharp-tongued, non-conservative Ladies of ABC's daytime talker, "The View. " What are her views on abortion? the Ladies wanted to know. How does she explain to widows of war dead that neither her husband nor any of her five sons served in the military? And: Why doesn't she watch TV? "The good news is, I'm not running for office...

Linda Hirshman's defense of Hilary Rosen [" Hilary Rosen was right ," Outlook, April 15] quickly ran aground on messy logic. Ann Romney is traveling the country as part of her work on her husband's campaign, and she is undoubtedly hearing people, including women, complain about the economy. Her work record (hardworking mother of five) does not put her at any disadvantage in listening to the concerns of women who work inside or outside of the home. This sentence from Ms. Hirshman was particularly...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mitt Romney, who has tried to steep his candidacy in symbolism, wanted to send a signal with his final rally before voters head to the polls. Romney launched his campaign with a simple speech and by serving Crock-Pots of his wife's chili on a rural New Hampshire farm. Seventeen months later, the Republican presidential nominee returned to the Granite State to address a thunderous crowd of 12,000 at an event that was part political rally, part rock concert and part laser light show.

FAIRFAX — Mitt Romney struck a valedictory note Monday as he rallied supporters at back-to-back events in the crucial state of Virginia — but with two more election-eve rallies to go, in addition to two newly added Election Day events in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the GOP presidential nominee still had miles to go before his 17-month campaign journey ends. Appearing onstage with his wife, Ann, and speaking before an audience of 8,500 people...

NEW YORK — Switching from jabs to jokes, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney set aside an evening between debates to make fun of themselves and each other during one of the few other campaign rituals that brings the candidates together on stage. Each appeared back-to-back at an annual fundraiser Thursday (Oct. 18) run by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, which has hosted presidential candidates since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.

President Obama introduced a new word into the American political lexicon Friday, accusing his GOP opponent, Mitt Romney, of "Romnesia" for changing positions and trying to pivot to the political center. Before nearly 10,000 supporters at a Virginia rally, Obama smiled, joked and wagged his finger as he mocked Romney's earlier declaration that he was a "severely conservative" governor of Massachusetts. "Now that we're 18 days out from the election, ‘Mr. Severely...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In advance of Monday's final presidential debate set for Florida, the candidates and their top surrogates have converged on this key swing state, where a prize of 29 electoral votes could determine who wins in November. The focus on Florida comes as the race for the White House enters its final stretch, with polls showing President Obama and Romney neck-and-neck in the Sunshine State. Vice President Joe Biden, dispatched to Florida on the strength of his appeal to two key...

One week after conquering an overtly hostile kitchen on ABC's "Good Morning America," Ann Romney bravely rushed in again where her husband apparently feared to tread, sitting with the sharp-tongued, non-conservative Ladies of ABC's daytime talker, "The View. " What are her views on abortion? the Ladies wanted to know. How does she explain to widows of war dead that neither her husband nor any of her five sons served in the military? And: Why doesn't she watch TV? "The good news is, I'm...

ABOARD THE ROMNEY PLANE — Ann Romney has finished her convention speech , rehearsed in front of teleprompters and arranged for her husband to be in Tampa on Tuesday night to watch her deliver it . She has even baked hundreds of Welsh cakes for reporters and friends. But hours before what amounts to her national debut, the would-be first lady had one last decision to make: pick out a dress. "The funniest thing of all is that Stuart Stevens, who wears his shirts inside out, is advising me on what...

The so-called war on women escalated Thursday onto a new front, after a Democratic strategist and cable-television pundit declared that Ann Romney, the stay-at-home, mother-of-five wife of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, had "never worked a day in her life. " This time, however, Republicans were on the offensive. And after weeks of hammering Romney and the Republicans on gender-related issues, including contraception coverage and equal pay for women, President Obama's...

Everyone's having a jolly time with Mitt Romney's "binders full of women. " Non-responsive, certainly. (The question wasn't about hiring women but about paying them equally.) Infelicitous phrasing, sure, evoking images of mail-order brides. But Romney's preening about how many women he hired as Massachusetts governor didn't particularly bother me. Whether he solicited the binders or they were foisted on him, Romney's record in office on hiring women was pretty good. The numbers dropped off over time, but I'm not a fan of this...

Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" comment during the second presidential debate did more than go viral ; it put women's issues back in the campaign spotlight. Romney made the comment as part of a discussion on gender equality in the workforce, in an attempt to highlight how he sought to hire more women for top positions while he was governor of Massachusetts: "And I — and I went to my staff, and I said, ‘How come all the people for these jobs are — are all men.'...