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The New York Times on Ann Romney:
During her rehabilitation from her initial attack, she took up dressage, going from a novice so weak that she could barely sit in the saddle to a winner of top amateur medals. She sometimes enters professional-level contests, against the advice of her trainer, Jan Ebeling. “She wants to measure herself against the best,” he said.
Dressage is a sport of seven-figure horses and four-figure saddles. The monthly boarding costs are more than most people’s rent. Asked how many dressage horses she owns, Mrs. Romney laughed. “Mitt doesn’t even know the answer to that,” she said. “I’m not going to tell you!”
No one else in the family participates, making it an escape for a woman who has spent her life aiding the men in her family, first at home and then in campaigns. Now they joke about competing with animals for her affections.
Last Christmas, Josh Romney presented his father with a rubber horse mask. “It’s remarkable how much it makes him look like a horse,” the younger Mr. Romney said. Wear the mask, he told his father, and “maybe Mom will pay as much attention to you as she does to the horses.”
It's going to take an army of Martin Dysarts to straighten this family out.
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After all those years of marriage, Ann found it refreshing to be communicating with the front end of a horse.
There’s some serious pathology in that family…
You know you are dealing with people who have way, way too much money when wifey can have a hobby so expensive that a single unit of it costs more than most folk’s rent, but hubby/moneymaker has no idea how many units he is paying for. I love open and honest relationships, don’t you?
I am also going to take the high road and not do any Catherine the Great jokes, but you know, feel free.
In a world of people whose eyes were wide open, that would be all.
Do these people have any idea how goddamned *creepy* they are?
Let’s see. The legendarily financial-detail-obsessed Mitt Romney has no idea in the world how many million-plus dollar purchases his wife (thoughts of whom light his every waking moment, so we’re told) is spending well over five figures a year each to maintain, or Mrs. Romney thinks that saying so makes it sound less as if her family is obscenely rich and more as if she’s an ordinary housewife sneaking herself a treat with the egg money.
And that’s leaving aside insurance.
“If the common people cannot afford to drive their cars, why, then let them ride horses!” sniggered Ann-Toinette Romney when asked how she’d deal with the pending recession and sky-rocketing energy costs.
I work in the horse business & can tell you that the numbers are not exaggerated. The people who own performance (show) horses have a lot of money. When you have that much money, it is just not as real to you as it is to the rest of us, AKA the common people. I see that attitude every single day, which is [one of the reasons] why i find myself in the Edwards camp.
After seeing and reading about the Huckabees, the Romneys are a breath of fresh air.
Wait a minute–what the fuck?
Seriously, isn’t this more important than a haircut?
No. The Edwards haircut story was important because it proved he’s a “fake”, since no one who cares about fighting poverty as much as Edwards says he does could ever, ever spend so much on a haircut.
Meanwhile, everyone knows the Romneys don’t give a shit about anyone except themselves, so no hypocrisy here.
HA HA HA!!
And I think the $400 haircut pales in comparison. Millions of dollars for a “hobby” as opposed to going prices for inside the beltway tonsorial practices? There just isn’t any comparison.
So Mitt Romney has to wear a horse mask to get ridden by his wife? And his sons know this and so buy him masks? Well, at least he may be having sex in a different kind of stall than Larry Craig, and the foot tapping is probably just for counting.
Well, of course there isn’t. Not for a person thinking rationally, anyway.
What a pity that we’re not dealing with people capable of rational thinking. We’re dealing with journalists, so this story will go nowhere.
Gotta love a woman in chaps.
Aside from Edwards, I doubt that any of the Bozos from either side know what it’s like to run out of money before you run out of month. The same for our Congress. We have a class of Mandarins in Washington who know as much about the concerns of average Americans as they do about life on Venus.
Feh! These damn liberal elitists!
What?
They’re Republicans?
Oh.
Well, it’s nice she’s found a charming and unusual stress-reliever! You go, girl!
at least you can’t fit a horse on top of a car.
Edwards is a hypocrite because he lives in a big house, but cares about the poor. Therefore, Romney cannot be a hypocrite.
dressage (drə-säzh’, drĕ-) A sexual position wherein the partner (usually the female) rides on the back of the other partner (usually the male) approximating riding a horse. The partners often wear masks and costumes. If the “horse” cannot decide to go left or right, forward or back the “rider” uses standard equestrian techniques to guide the “horse”.
You know you are in trouble when the Mormon magic underwear, a recent history of polygamy in your religion, flip flopping on every major issue you ever took a stand on, and not having a shred of credibility in the black community, is not why most people find your “family” creepy.
How about a break from the idiocy of the Silly Season to something so appalling it will probably make you physically ill?
http://counterpunch.org/lendman12172007.html
Read the whole thing if you can.
And have a nice day.
Then, just when you’ve sufficiently recovered from the fact that our loss of liberty is accelerating and most likely permanent, you can go ahead and read the lead article about just how big the Big Shitpile really is.
http://counterpunch.org/
Happy Holidays, everyone!
ellis17 @ 20: beauteous. Why does that also sound like the model being followed by the American electorate and our elected leaders these days?
Sheesh Com, thanks for the link. Ruined my goddamned day, but hell, it was ruined anyway.
(And yeah, I think the Blue Hens’ helmets were the kicker in Friday’s loss, but I’ll tell ya what, that Armante Edwards kid is extraordinary.)
Well, your linky pretty much put paid to that didn’t it… DAY-UM. I couldn’t get through it all without screaming out loud, so I’ve bookmarked it. I’m also planning on printing it out, rolling into a small tight tube and stuffing it up the nose of a few Repuglicans I work with…
I’m also planning on printing it out,
I already did and it’s 24 pages long. Tonight it replaces the stack of books on the table in dire need of attention.
Look at Craig Romney’s teeth and tell me things don’t start falling into place.
Oh well, whatever keeps the wife Pasiphae’d.
Sigh, any of our candidates with the exception of Mike Gravel could probably afford this. So since I refuse to think that Edwards should move into a smaller house or Gore should take a skateboard, I’m also going to say that I hope Ann Romney enjoys her dressage. When I’ve seen it, it seems truly insipid and boring, but what do I know. I’d prefer to see her barrel racing, but what I really want to do is post that old picture of Katherine Harris once again. gis for katherine harris horseback
Ridden in a mask, in the stall foot tapping & counting. . .
Give that fan a contract! LOL, the folks reading gttim’s comment over my shoulder are still cracking up!
sláinte,
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Tbogg!
Please do not tell me that’s Harry Potter up there in that picture.
Shh. Aughh.
True story: When Willard starting running for governor, he bragged that his wife thought going back to Massachusetts would have a bad effect on her health, but as a virtuous Mormon wife she understood that “submitting to the headship of her husband” was no less than God required. And, while Mitt could certainly have become governor of Utah on the strength of his Olympic “triumph”, he felt called to make a difference in Massachusetts. (Translation: Governing Squarestate Moroni-Land isn’t a natural stepping stone for a presidential run.) His PR handlers shut him up on the topic eventually, but Willard never did understand that normal non-sociopathic humans wouldn’t consider this biographical tidbit a net positive for his political campaign…
I assume that Ann’s grasp of her Mormon faith precludes her setting stacks of hundred-dollar bills on fire in her living room, but I wouldn’t blame the poor woman for spending at least as much on her hobby as His Headship is burning on his!
Excellent point. Mitt’s spent how many millions on his political career(read: ego) by now? He may have been the breadwinner, but who do we think took care of the family and the house? More honest work besides.