For those that have not been following the news over the last 24 hours or so involving Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, and Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen, the two have risen to the top of the charts in the social media world all because of motherhood.
In comments during an appearance with Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, Rosen claimed that Ann Romney cannot relate to many women because she’s been a stay-at-home mother and has lived a privileged life being the wife of the former Massachusetts governor.
During an appearance on FOX News Thursday, Romney responded that her career choice was to be a mother. “I think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. Other women make other choices to have a career and a raise family, which Hilary Rosen has done herself. I respect that. That’s wonderful,” Romney remarked.
Romney, meantime, broke out a Twitter account and tweeted that “I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.” On April 12, Romney’s husband, the presumptive opponent this fall for President Obama, added his own tweet “‘My job is temporary. These things come and go but your job is a forever job that will bring forever happiness.’”
Ann Romney, who along with raising five boys and being a grandmother to 16 kids has battled both breast cancer and MS, has gone to more than 21,000 followers in just her two days on Twitter.
Even the current First Lady, Michelle Obama, got involved in the social media discussion Thursday, tweeting “Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected.”
As the 2008 presidential election showed with President Obama and his team using social media to spread their word of “change” for the country, social networks like Twitter and Facebook just to name two can have a major impact on spreading information. At the end of the day, however, the voters will need to sift through what is actual information and what is mere rhetoric.
As for the comments from Rosen, who later apologized to Ann Romney on Thursday and any other mothers she offended, they were the typical speak before you think remarks that often come from Washington, D.C.
Having been raised along with three siblings by a stay-at-home mother, I consider myself very lucky to have had that experience.
Anyone that thinks motherhood is not a full-time job and then some is really out of touch, not to mention a little anti-social.
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