One would think the left would have learned from the Hillary Rosen debacle that attacks on Ann Romney are bound to backfire on the ranks of Obama cheerleaders. But yesterday on MSNBC, liberal columnist Michelle Goldberg appeared to escalate the attacks on the would-be first lady with a bizarre riff on an inoffensive Mother’s Day op-ed published in USA Today. Mrs. Romney’s memoir of her own mother as well as her experience raising her five boys and becoming a grandmother of 18 is about as controversial as apple pie, but her use of the term “crown of motherhood” — which she said is the “most glorious” of hats that women wear — set Goldberg’s teeth on edge.
As the Daily Caller notes, with “Vagina Monologues” playwright Eve Ensler sitting alongside and nodding at her every word, Goldberg claimed the phrase was redolent of the propaganda used by totalitarian regimes to put women in their place.
“I found that phrase ‘the crown of motherhood’ really kind of creepy, not just because of its, like, somewhat you know, I mean, it’s kind of usually really authoritarian societies that give out like ‘The Cross of Motherhood,’ that give awards for big families. You know, Stalin did it, Hitler did it.”
Later on Twitter, Goldberg denied that she had meant to compare Romney to those mass murderers; there’s little question she seemed to imply a commonality between Republican attitudes toward women and those of the Nazis and Communists. The point here isn’t that Goldberg was drawing a direct analogy. The context of her remarks show that what she was trying to say is to bolster the idea that Republicans are waging a “war on women.” And that means that everything, even the most anodyne comments by someone connected with the GOP, must be demonized, even when it is Ann Romney extolling motherhood.
Though Goldberg dismissed the criticisms of her foolish comments as a mere Twitter tempest in a teapot, it actually does tell us a lot about what liberals are thinking and why Ann Romney will be a key figure in the presidential campaign. Because Obama’s re-election hinges, at least in part, on demonizing Mitt Romney and the GOP as enemies of women, that has led some on the left to believe they are going to have to do something about his wife’s popularity. The only problem is that Ann Romney is such an appealing figure that she is virtually bulletproof. Moreover, every attack on her is bound to backfire on Democrats.
After Rosen’s and Goldberg’s gaffes, Democrats would do well to simply ignore Ann Romney. Every time they mention her name, even to try and besmirch the Republicans, it’s a bonus for her husband’s presidential hopes.
They're desperate. I view insanity like this as an informal way of confirming internal desperation.
Exactly!
I'm ashamed of and for these Jewish idiots. n nThey really need to STFU, for a change.
I think this is where the secular/religious divide comes into play. Many people grow up in the USA without any exposure to a traditional religion. I had someone tell me that the idea of good and evil is too religious for their taste. Crown of motherhood seems to me to derive from religious terminology which Ms. Goldberg is possibly unfamiliar. n nI think that the decline of religion in the USA is a big problem. Freedom and the "pursuit of happiness" are great concepts, but without religious morals, mores and concepts to balance it, it leads inevitably to a society based completely on sensuality. Not a good thing.
Hmm. Hitler, Stalin….cult of personality..Dear Leader…president's birthday…socialist realist posters…slogans…a "movement"…repeat the lies…Why does this ring a more contemporary bell?
They can't help themselves. They truly do love "humanity" but hate actual people.
my first impulse is to say, more repulsive crap from the big mouth jewish lesbian contingent from NYC, and score one for the anti-semites out there who will say, one more proof of the toxic anti-religious anti-Xian war being waged by those NY Jews who control the media. n non reflection, my conclusion is the same. n n also, whatever happened to the practice of excommunication for truly renegade Jews?
Sarah Palin could give Ann Romney a primer on what it's like to be in the "crosshairs" of the radical lefties, who are tolerant of everyone except Conservatives. I applaud Obama for not caving in to civilty, for keeping racial and gender issues alive to be exploited for pure political gain.
Here's a cartoon I'd like to see: n nMichelle Goldberg is pictured with a thought balloon over her head. Inside this balloon, Ann Romney is seen between Adolf Hitler and Joe Stalin. The caption reads: Inside the Liberal Mind.
Someone should hand Goldberg a copy of AWoman of Valor, the psalm that Jewish husbands sing to their wives every Shabbt. Maybe she can find a family member who can explain its significance.
It only proves that a college education and a job with MSNBC is no proof of intelligence. These people, Jews or non Jews, are so disconnected from the reality of the United States and what lies west of the Hudson river as to render their opinion as a form of dissociative mania. For goodness sake – keep attacking Anne Romney, and while your at it why not Mother Theresa, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir, Bettsy Ross, Esther, Rachel and any other woman who might not agree with their hysterical LGBT agenda. Anne Romney is a class act and so were the Bush women. Respect, honor, courage, dignity – Goldberg and Rosen are a little out their depth here.
Think about it: which topic sounds the most splendid: "crown of motherhood" or "Vagina Monologues"? I go with the first.