The absurd thing is she laughed out loud right after saying the “poor in spirit” line. Wow. If she keeps this up people might start thinking the Romneys are insincere. Her handlers needed to coach her on that programmed line a lot longer until she “owned” it.
The video clip is here:
a few years ago I lost track of an article I had about Ann Romney describing how poor they were when Romney was in college, as she was describing the details i could n't help but think how well off they seemed to have been during that time.
By the way, the teen girls conversion from Christianity was personally handled by the Governor of her state, Bishop George Romney, who ran as the anti-war Presidential candidate a year later. She was waiting for Mitt to return from France where he was laying low and avoiding the draft while trying to convert Christians in France into Mormonism.
Welcome to freerepublic, what are your feelings on Mitt Romney?
And I don’t consider myself indigent .... Or lame ....
poor in spirit? I guess he must’ve done some bad deeds like lying?
Their attraction for each other was that they both had tin ears? Someone needs to take them aside who’s NOT impressed with all that money and lay some reality on them.
Can she take the convertible to pick up the dog at the vet?
Where does she take their magic underwear to get it cleaned?
Pretty easy to be “poor in spirit” - and a heckuva lot easier to be silly - with a couple hundred million in the bank.
Is this the sort of insight we may expect from our next First Lady?
- I don’t even consider myself wealthy
She is super wealthy.
Have your husband write me a check for $300 million.
I certainly won't be as fawningly self-indulgent with it as he has apparently been.
Cheers!
Interesting, all the comments.
I immediately identified with what Ann Romney was saying. I can’t pretend to “know” exactly what she meant, but I think I know what she meant.
The woman has MS (she also had breast cancer.) I have MS. We are not Romney wealthy, but we are “comfortable”...but the amount of money we have in the bank does nothing for my sense of well-being.
She has a disease that is so unpredictable she never knows how she will feel when she wakes up the next day. Never knows when her body will give out on her. It is a progressive disease, and progressive diseases, progress.
I’ve heard her talk about campaigning and how sometimes she has to return to the bus, too fatigued to even talk. She puts on a good “face” (lots of MS patients do)...but I’ve also heard her say that sometimes she has to say to her husband “Go storm the castle” because she can’t go due to her illness.
I saw a Cavuto clip where he discussed Ann Romney, he said he watches her, and he can see the MS peeking through...why because he knows the disease.
What was the old saying, “If you have your heatlh, you’ve got just about everything.”
I cut the woman some slack...I don’t think she was belittling their wealth, I just think she was trying to express the reality of life...wealth ultimately is not what matters.
I’ve seen that $10 million mansion on the lake in New Hampshire, Ann...you ‘poor’ thing.
Mitt Romney may have more money than any other presidential candidate in the race, but his wife said today that she does not consider herself wealthy. “We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing,”
You’re right Ann. If you’re poor in spirit, you could give away all your money and still be happy. Show me.
“I don’t think of myself as rich”
That’s how the out-of-touch rich try to show that they aren’t out of touch—and really just demonstrate how very much they are.
I’ll bet you $ 10,000....er, wait a minute.......
“We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy.” “Now can you please pass the Grey Poupon?”
I do believe Mrs. Romney would be less obnoxious as FLOTUS.
November is going to be a bummer.