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Ann Romney Proposes Innovative New Campaign Strategy: ‘Maybe I Should Do All The Talking’

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Mitt Romney‘s campaign, still at the front of the Republican horserace but nowhere near where many expected him to be at this point, received a boost this weekend from the Michigan Tea Party, which endorsed him. During a campaign stop today in Troy, Michigan, however, it was clear that even this boost wasn’t enough for Ann Romney to stop herself from complaining that, sometimes, having to be at all these events can get really tedious. It’s gotten so bad, that Mrs. Romney proposed that maybe, for a change, “I should just do all the talking.”

RELATED: Donny Deutsch Pokes Fun At Romney For Saying Michigan Trees Are ‘The Perfect Height’

Romney joked to a crowd in Troy about the length of the Republican campaign:

“Maybe I should just do all the talking and let him just stand here and watch me,” she said as joined Mitt on stage at a tea party forum here Saturday. “I’ve also decided: No more debates. If we’re going to do another debate, he’s going to sit in the audience and watch me. And that’ll be it.”

It is unclear how “nor more debates” hasn’t become the core platform of any of the campaigns, because at this point in the campaign, promising “no more debates” sounds about as enticing as “free puppies for everyone!” The Washington Post, which reported her humorous comments, went on to add that Romney was well-received and stressed her and her husband’s ties to the state before Mitt Romney took the podium.

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  • The Big Glovebowski

    What a great couple. Mitt chose well. ( So did she)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    Does this mean Mrs. Romney is losing confidence in her husband?

  • labman57

    Not exactly a ringing endorsement of her husband’s leadership ability.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T4XWQIA67RCLK4PP7WAI6QNTG4 Peggy G

    Sounds like a wonderful idea…I would LOVE to have a future first lady debate….

    Can you imagine?  Anne Romney (class), Calista Gingrich (Ho), Karen Santorum (Supermom) and Carol Paul (Superwife).

     It would be very, very interesting.

  • Anonymous

    PEGGY G (B*tch)

  • Anonymous

    That sounds like a good idea.  I’m sure she would have better things to say on why she likes Michigan instead of saying all the trees are all the right height.  

  • Anonymous

    At the very least she can’t do a worse job of talking to real people than he has so far.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s not. They’re not running for office, their husbands are and wouldn’t deserve the inevitable abuse that would come from putting themselves out there as a big part of their husband’s campaign. I’m pretty sure rival superPACs would pull no punches and show no hesitation in smearing them should one get too popular with potential voters.

    Also, Ho? Callista isn’t the first woman to have fallen for a married man. It’s not something she should be proud of and I doubt that she is, but she doesn’t deserve to be called a ho..

  • Anonymous

    SLICK mimes and his wife does all the talking?Yep!, Now that’s the Ticket!!!! At the LEAST,It’s better than what’s happened to this point!!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Mitt Romney Visits the Dentist
    “I love this place. I love drills and fillings. I love plaque, and also the removal of plaque. I like teeth that are inside the mouth, but I also like teeth that are outside the mouth. I grew up totally in love with novocaine. I’m addicted to novocaine. I wish I could go to the dentist every day, and get a shot of novocaine. My dentist is just the right height. He’s also approximately the right width.”

    http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/101072/things-mitt-romney-loves-likes-humor

  • Anonymous

    OK!!!OK!!! THAT’S IT!!!!! FESS UP GREG,YOU’RE SLICKS DEBATE COACH AREN’T YOU?? LMAO!!!!!!!

  • Chappel User

    A woman doing all the talking in a Mormon household? Yeah… OK.

  • Verreauxii

    You are right. Mistress is more befitting. 

  • Verreauxii

    I guess she’s wearing the magic panties. (Yes…I did go there.) 

  • Anonymous

    MItt Romney may have tickets to the Daytona 500, but Rick Santorum has a car in the race! Santorum’s campaign is sponsoring a car- smart idea, GREAT publicity! He’s not my candidate, but I can appreciate what a smart move this is.

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/photos-rick-santorum-daytona-500-racer-173008802.html

  • Anonymous

    not even his wife doing all the talking will make him beat obama

  • Anonymous

    “I’m never doing this again.”

    “Maybe I should do all the talking and let him watch me.”

    “I also decided, no more debates. If we’re going to do another debate, he’s going to sit in the audience and watch me, and that’ll be it.”

    This has to be the worst endorsement by a spouse since Theresa Heinz Kerry.

  • Anonymous

    From the sounds of things, she lost confidence in him back in’08.

  • Anonymous

    Nope, just a last ditch effort by Romney to connect with the people of the state he grew up in.

  • Anonymous

    If she does all the talking he doesn’t even get the nomination.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kristie-Pseventy/100001132852246 Kristie Pseventy

    sooooo…..she’ll do all the talking and then, he’ll do all the work if elected? brilliant strategy there! to think, all this time i was worried the politicos were more concerned with image than substance. silly me!!!

  • Anonymous

    Calista was had an affair with Gingrich for six years while he was married. What else is she besides a ho?

    Maybe unfortunate because Gingrich actually became her husband?

  • Anonymous

    Being a ho would require it to be something she’s done with multiple men for personal gain, an accusation you cannot level at Callista, She fell in love with the wrong man, that makes her foolish, but not a whore. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending adultery, I just don’t think it’s right to attack candidates wives in this way or to label people whores because of one mistake.

    If anyone if in the ‘ho’ in this situation, it’s Newt, he’s the serial adulterer and he’s the one running for office pretending he’s somehow a good, moral person fit to pass judgement on others, not Callista.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UCQE6A7YKC3BOGL2HABPCVYE2A JimmyT

    As long as the cat’s out of the bag, I openly welcome a debate between Ann Romney and Michelle Obama – Michelle would put Ann in her place on every topic from monetary policy to immigration to healthcare to foreign affairs. Michelle’s no intellectual heavyweight like Hillary but it shouldn’t take much to put a stepford wife in her place. Even Palin could do it, I wager. All it takes is backbone, something Romney clearly lacks.

  • Anonymous

    That was funny.

  • Anonymous

    Michelle Obama (very graciously) would make Anne Romney look like an amateur school girl in a debate.  I watched a video narrated by Anne Romney in which she talked many times about her “daughter-in-laws”, this is a basic lack of knowledge of grammar and usage, not a slip up, she used it multiple times.  I will admit she is a little more aware of avoiding the “I’m rich and you’re not” language, but back during one of his over long and boring campaigns in Massachusetts, she made the comment, I guess to show they are just like you and me, that they actually had to live off their principal during one period, cashing in stocks and such.

  • Anonymous

    Ann Romney won’t “ALLOW” her husband to …. If in the White House, what else would she not allow her husband to do?

    We already have a president who has to ask permission from the women who run him when he wants to take his cojones down off the shelf; why would we want another?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UCQE6A7YKC3BOGL2HABPCVYE2A JimmyT

    Your right on the money when you call her out on her “country club” mentality. Case in point, ordinary people who want other people to like them don’t go around proclaiming that they have not had a serious argument with their spouse in over forty years. Or claim that they urged their spouse to run for President on account of moral principle. And, make no mistake, Mrs. Romney is quite beautiful for a woman her age. But, I don’t think she yet realizes that policy will not be her strong suit. Elizabeth Dole, for all her fake smiling and pearls, was one tough cookie who held her own against the likes of Rahm Emmanuel on Meet the Press. She, like Michelle, had an excellent education, had a remarkable grasp on public policy, and had a career of her own before she was married, therefore she was credible when speaking on behalf of her husband. And, Ann Romney is to Elizabeth Dole what Mitt is to Bob.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Santorum is the man. He knows Satan when he sees it.

    Romney wants to “fundamentally change America”

    nuff said.

  • Anonymous

    Sound strategy. What will Mitt reveal next in trying to “connect” with Americans?

  • Anonymous

    Poor Ann, she’s got 2 cadillacs and 5 houses…she can feel for what the average person is going through…Please…

  • Anonymous

     The lack of grammar and usage is evident in both Michelle and Barry – they both say “me and Barack” or “me and Michelle”.  Good grief – neither are rocket scientists.  And they have NO class whatsoever.  They are both nouveau riche, which explains all the excessive and lavish vacations and entertaining.  Mrs. Romney is well bred and has class and integrity.  Our White House inhabitants have neither. 

  • Anonymous

     Ask any married woman what they’d call a woman who knowingly sleeps with a married man.

  • Anonymous

    What exactly is a “ColbertConservative”, is it a fake conservative like Colbert or someone who thinks that Colbert is really conservative??

  • Anonymous

    They are the classiest couple in the White House for a long, long time.  The nouveau riche claim is laughable, with Harvard and Princeton educations.  They don’t take any more lavish and excessive vacations than any other president, you are mistaken there, but obviously you have been getting Fox and Limbaugh talking points.  You know nothing about Mrs. Romney and her “breeding”, I suggest you look it up!!

  • Anonymous

    If that were the case I would call myself RomneyConservatove.

  • Anonymous

    LOL @ “nouveau riche”! You sound like the East Eggers from The Great Gatsby. I relly ope Mitt & Ann bring up how they were born into aristocracy & the Obama’s are “nouveau riche” (aka self made). I’m sure that will go over well with voters.

  • http://twitter.com/marionetta marionetta

    Listen carefully; she was talking in wife/mommy speak.

    Sit down, shut up and do what I tell you.

     

  • Anonymous

    Mitt’s magic underwear must not be working so well.

  • Anonymous

     When the Romneys’ speak to the masses I bet they feel like they are talking to the help.

  • Anonymous

    Meh. Worked for Clinton.

  • Joan Kelly

     Actually, I think it would e stupid.  What would you expect a wife to say?  “My hubby is dumber’n I am?”

  • Joan Kelly

    Callista got exactly what she wanted and asked for -  Newt.

    Whether she’s a ho or not isn’t our call. 

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you should just drive around in one of your THREE Cadillacs.  Disgusting!!!

  • Anonymous

    Anything that involves Romney not speaking is probably good for his campaign.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you should both shut up.

  • Marsan Magia

    Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy…only backbone I see is in Mean Lean Michelle…she made Obama and is still working on him; he worked for Mitchelle, remember; she’s still telling him what to do.  She doesn’t dare let him speak without a teleprompter, either. I suspect Ms. Romney would be a gracious contender if your dream came came true!  Stop dreaming, it’s just not gonna happen and I think we all know it’s small talk, no big deal! 

  • Marsan Magia

    Do you think Michelle’s extravagant vacationing and out of control shopping for all the luxurious clothes and trimmings she dons, makes me feel “like Michelle feels my average feelings and what I’m going through?” 

    Do you honestly think Michelle gives a damn about us little peeps as she slides down the mountain on skis???  She’s doing all the things she never imagined she could have, raking it all in in case they lose the White House.  She’s barely being classed up!  Go see and listen to all the 2008 photos and videos.  Obama seems more sophisticated than her by far! 

    As for Ann Romney, she’s more relaxed; she probably does have it all; as for her autos, even our family has more then one automobile and 3 homes, and we damn sure don’t hold it against anyone to have more than one! 

    You sound jealous and envious!  It’s the same envy driving Michelle these days; her vacations will end when we the people stop financing them!  Just watch.  Going to Princeton teaches you academia, not class.

  • Anonymous

    “Going to Princeton teaches you academia, not class.” NOT A TRUE STATEMENT! Just because you went to P’ton does NOT mean you learned anything- particularly true for the politically correct majors (which shall remain nameless).

  • Marsan Magia

    Re “Academia”…exactly my point. Academia is nothing more and guarantees nada!!

    In that case, we’re saying the same thing.  I tend to agree with you as far as “the learning curve to make the grade only.”  Honestly, my approach to academia was in “giving the benefit of the doubt” to other commentators.  None of the elite schools have anything to do with “common sense,” which left our political masses long ago, speaking of political correctness!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/YOEMHUT2GC5JBWLQJ4HL6LXW6E Lina

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