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Round-up: Newsweek turns on Obama, and Romney’s Mormonism to play in the Convention?

August 20, 2012 by

This is a bird’s eye view of the race for the White House in the week before the Republican convention. Rasmussen find Romney up and Obama down, under-40 breaking for Romney, Newsweek turns on Obama while the Obama campaign fights internal strife, and Noonan asks: “If it had been a Republican vice presidential candidate who had made those gaffes…the subject today of the panel would be how stupid is this person, can this person possibly govern?”

Also, Romney’s Mormon faith and the opening prayer at the convention…

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Hilary Rosen will never know the “joy” of changing 10,000 diapers.

April 13, 2012 by

Late Wednesday night, my husband mentioned the attack on Ann Romney for “never working a day in her life,” in other words, for being a “stay-at-home” mom. I was busy breast-feeding my youngest, so I didn’t have time to think much of it at the time. I rolled my eyes and said something like, ‘Oh brother, what next?’ It was morning before I actually watched the clip of Hilary Rosen making her jab at Ann Romney.
Only then did it strike home just how personal Rosen’s attack was on me and my choice to switch careers to raise my children. [cont…]

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