Poor SE Cupp – little does she realize that librarian glasses can’t disguise the fact that she’s dumb as a stump.

Ask any women on their first day back at work after maternity leave about this. (actually not a good idea to really ask, just think about it) Marrying Thurston Howell the Third can have some advantages besides vida la Prada. But “picking a good provider” can mean many different things.

It usually has a very specific implication for someone like Ann Romney a Republican Girl.

“…would you for a million dollars?”
“welllll I don’t know, have you got a million dollars?”
“How about for 50 bucks?”
“Excuse me? What do you think I am?”

Sippy Cupp is still writing? Oh, never mind. It’s the NY Daily News. They seem to assume that folks can’t read all those words on a big page…

As the son of a working mother and the brother of a working sister who has started a family, I kindly suggest that SE Cupp go fuck herself.

She could call her column “Two Cents: One Cupp.”

But by marrying wealthy, Ann made a truly empowering decision

I made the same decision, but the only available husband I found turned out to not be rich so I didn’t get “empowered”. Who’d'a thunk it? /snark

actually, now I come to think of it — it was so long ago, I almost forgot — I did receive a proposal of marriage from a rich guy (no names, but grandson of a zillionaire and well-known sf writer). Didn’t marry him because (a) didn’t love him and (b) not a FUCKING WHORE! Of course, in the rightard world it’s OK to be a slut/whore if you marry money; it’s only not OK if you want birth control covered by insurance.

I keep telling my spouse she should have married a doctor or something, but she says they’re mostly assholes, and Republicans too. Or is that redundant?

Wasn’t it Ann’s turn?

Ann Romney should be a great role model for whom again?

Yeah thats great that she married a rich man who she apparently loves, but last time I looked there aint very may hyper rich guys around. Therefore the gold-digging you propose isn’t viable for the majority of women. Most working moms, like my mother did, have a whole heaping helping of things to worry about that Ann Romney will never have to worry about because she is monied. The real role models should be single working moms who are able to raise their families successfully under those trying circumstances. And sorry, but any small bit of extra help she needs should be expected from a compassionate and just government.

Therefore SE Cupp (if indeed thats your real name) since you obviously have no real world experience in balancing “germ carrying moochers” with the pressures of life most normal people have, please shut the fuck up, you “hyper educated” moron.

Does that dumb Cupp have any self respect at all, to indulge in Cinderella fantasies at her age?

What’s truly puzzling is the Democrats describing Romney as Don Draper. I can only conclude they don’t watch the show.

Ok it is OT, but this just pisses me off. The GOP wants to keep Corn subsidies but Cut food stamps. The real beneficiaries are not the farmers, it’s the investors and the whole fuckin twisted excuse for a “food” industry. And the reason it is totally fucked up is because of massive corn and soy subsidies.

But food stamps, in the face of a prolonged recession and 8% unemployment, pfffff, it’s just “welfare”.

So Ann Fucking Romney, with her French manicured hands around the balls of the GOP, needs to make a decision. Who do we favor, private equity pirates or people who work for a living?

But don’t hold your breath for the choruses of “You go, girl!” from the feminists.

Oh dearie me, why wouldn’t they applaud? Could it be that they see Mitt Romney the way most other people see him-not as a “catch” but as a hollowed-out sociopath?

As long as we’ve brought it up, everyone sit back and imagine the columns Cuppy and the rest of the clown car would write if Barack Obama had been worth 9 figures when Michelle married him. I ain’t sayin’ she’s a gold digger, indeed.

Mitt Romney, a good, churchgoing guy who worked hard to achieve huge success.

Yeah, Romney worked real hard. Siphoning off $100,000,000 in “management fees” and then closing out these newly bankrupt factories can sometimes make one break a sweat, you know.

~ Harry R. Sohl

Does your name somewhat reference the late “world’s oldest teenager?”

Marriage is prostitution.

Even your comment doesn’t really tell the story, since Romney was born into a family with a mittload of money. His daddy wasn’t exactly living in an abandoned refrigerator box.

In college, the newlyweds lived off money derived from selling stock Daddy George had bought with the couple thousand dollars a year Mittens received in birthday gifts. Neither Ann nor Mitt ever had to clean a grease trap, clear cafeteria trays, or even tutor a dumb-as-a-brick undergrad (I graded papers, did seminar posters, and typed occasional papers for friends.) And if that money ran out, their parents would no doubt have helped. Mitt didn’t start at the bottom when he graduated. He entered the work force rather far up the food chain, as I recall.

Now Ann and Mitt want her to get a medal for doing the same stuff less “empowered” women do in addition to spending time away from their families in pursuit of the means to feed, clothe, and house the kids.

Ms. Cupp, if I or one of my cohort had gone the route of “empowerment via matrimony”, we’d have been labeled “gold diggers.” Ann escaped that by being born rich to begin with. If Ms. C and Mrs. R. don’t understand that, they’re both denser than constipated dog turds.

Ms. Cupp is a rather outspoken atheist. Since when does she approve of good churchgoing guys? Or is it a case of any port in a storm?

Two Brain Cells, One Cupp.

Sadly Ms. Cupp is probably a little too old to be a first wife of a hardworking church going man. And I doubt that the Millionaire Matchmaker will take her (not enough model there). Perhaps Ms. Cupp should work harder to meet Ron Perelman. He usually lasts about eighteen months into a marriage with a baby momma, so should be coming into a nasty divorce any day now. Mind you getting him to the altar without being pregnant usually means a longer ride on the entitlement train. Limbaugh and Trump are probably out of the marriage running for a decade (although Trump will certainly consider something on the side). While I could continue estimating her chances with the world’s wealthiest marrying men, why bother. The thing is that apparently not only is Ms. Cupp advocating a situation that is unavailable for over 90% of women, she is cheering on Ann Romney for doing what she could never manage either. And this tells us not only that Ms. Cupp is a fantasist, but that she is almost as lazy at it as she is at her day job. And without lots of workouts and developing her whore in the bedroom ways, she should probably start going Go, Hillary! and Yeah, Lily Ledbetter! to secure her future.

Too many ladies and not enough Donald Trumps, Rush Limbaughs , and Larry Kings.

To be fair, Don, Rush, and Larry – and don’t forget Newt! – have done their best to empower as many women as they could.

You know what? I’m sick of the false equivalencies that I’m seeing on this and other progressive blogs. So let’s get this straight, shall we?

Thurston Howell III was much more progressive and self-aware than Mitt Romney. I will thank you in advance for keeping this in mind.

/watched way too much Gilligan’s Island as a kid

I don’t how big a bra size an SE cup is, but judging from her remarks, you can evidently fit quite a boob in in one.

Ann Romney and Fantasyland. I mean, good for her, I guess. Too bad about the MS. Still, not exactly a role model for any woman anticipating living the majority of a life post-1887.

Sippy Cupp! Brilliant — must remember that one.

The fictional Mr. Howell and especially Mrs. Howell were one up on Romney because they actually had functioning consciences. This is most likely because neither of them had read Ayn Rand.

What the…????

Sippy Cupp is one-up on known fabulist, dead Breitbart. Amazing. Sippy Cupp must’ve watched the execrable Pretty Woman one too many times and thought it was, you know, a *documentary.*

For realz time: I’ve known a number of pretty wealthy silver spoon legacy types over the course of my life. Many have been close friends. They’ve, one and all, ‘fessed up that the the wealthy mostly ONLY “marry their own kind.” Believe me, their parents drum it into them from conception.

The fantasy that some poor, or even upper middle class, woman can “catch” a rich shit like Mitt is just that: a fantasy.

Anna Nicole Smith did what she did bc she was a clever whore, but even that’s very very rare… and her hubby’s family did their best to get *their* money back.

Boyohboy, what a frickin’ LOAD that article was. Geez, TBogg, that one of the ones for your “list” of ??? complete fabricated conservatarded nonsense fantasy … ??? or something.

PEEE Yew…

“Because of whom she married, Ann was able to stay at home and raise her family the way she wanted. She was able to support her husband’s ambitions. She was able to afford lifesaving care when she was diagnosed with both multiple sclerosis and breast cancer. And she was able to devote her time to charity.”

I know a number of men and women with MS and it is a nasty chronic disease. Breast cancer is obscenely prevalent in our society and surviving it is a cause for celebration.

However, the implication that one’s health care is dependent on who one marries is rather fucked up now, isn’t it? Even though I married up (Ms. Puravida is definitely a better person than I), the health insurance we have is still a total and complete clusterfuck. “Whaddya mean we have to pay 100% for our kid’s braces because the orthodonist is out of network?! Now you tell us?!!

I guess my mistake was not having my butler or CPA or Admin Assistant deal with MetLife so I could devote my time to charity.

Isn’t “picking a good provider” the same as welfare? or handouts? Is living off of what your spouse brings home the same as taking a handout? Here’s the deal: Ann Romney was bred as a brood mare,intended for someone high up in the power structure of the LDS. Her purpose in life was to magnify whomever was chosen for her. I’m so glad the RNC has decided on Mitt as their golden child,as there are so many ways of showing a whole new level of bizarre thinking to a public that may have never seen LDS in action.

If I got drunk enough to not hear her talking,I’d have sex with her.

“Livin’La Vida Prada”? Thank you,thank you,thank you!

Sorry – but not true. Ann, according to teh Wikipaedia, is a Mormon convert – whilst attending her Bloomfield Hills private school, she met Mittens (who was attending -his- Bloomfield Hills private school.) She evidently set her cap for him when she was 16, converting from vague Episcopalianism (her self-made, Welsh-born engineer father being a Welsh Congregationalist, or the next best thing to holding no religion at all) and trailed around after Mittens until he married her on his return from his French adventure. Apparently George Romney participated in her ‘conversion’.

I believe that name was coined on the Stephanie Miller Radio Show.

Eh? Interesting, that one. Well it’s still the “merger” of two scions of wealth, albeit probably Mittens was the wealthier. That Ann was willing to convert to Mormonism, I guess, can be seen through Sippy Cupp eyes as an “empowering decision” to ensure a life of Livin’ La Vida Prada (thanks, tbagga), along with the “fruits” of Mitten’s “labor,” such as fancy-dancy horsies & lotsa servants, nannies, houses, caddies, a Harvard degree (as a back-up Plan B) & so forth.

The blonde hair & rangy frame didn’t hurt Ann. I’ve noticed those wealthy boys like ‘em blond, thin & a certain Stepford wife type of looks: check, check & check.

You guys is lookin’ at this situation in the wrong way. You hear trophy wife and you think bowling trophy when you should be thinking trophy hunter. In the sociopathic world of the .001% we are their prey but at the top of the Social Darwinist food chain are the Ann Romney’s of the world. Is it worse to prey on vulture capitalists than on factory workers or home-buyers? The gold diggers of the world don’t do the rest of us any good but unlike their husbands they probably don’t do us a lot of harm.

Respectfully disagree.

You may be right about the trophy hunter analogy, but I don’t agree that the gold-diggers of the planet aren’t doing “any harm” to the 99%.

Ann’s totally into having the “fruits” of Mitt’s labors, as I posted previously, with not a single concern for anyone else who got harmed by Mitt’s “work.” Do you think the Ann Romney’s of the planet “encourage” their hubbies to “go easy” with their vulture capitalism that provides Ann with the life of splendid luxury & ease? Do you think Ann didn’t *want* all those fancy-dancy horsies that Mitt pays big buck$$$ to fly around the entire planet for schmancy “competitions” with other mega-wealthy vultures & their trophy wives and/or mistresses?

Seriously, Ann’s *just* as much of a vulture as her hubby, plus, despite pooping out more Morman babies – her vaunted “job,” which is nice work if you can get it – she’s quite willing to live large & in charge off the broken backs of the working & middle classes in Team USA with nary a concern for anyone else’s welfare.

ptoui!

Turns out she’s a phony. Just like her husband.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_04/breaking_character036759.php

Picking a good provider? Sheesh, talk about setting women back a decade. With women like these we would have missed out on decades of discovery.

I am totally on board with the idea that women that work in the home work hard, however to diminish the value of those who chose to enter the workforce or make it out as some failure to not have a spouse who can afford the luxury of allowing you that option(and mine does) as some sort of failing is disgusting.

As a woman I refuse to participate in the “Mommy Wars.” I support ALL women and their right to choose which option works best for their lives and the lives of their families. THAT ought to be the mantra of every woman. Until women stop allowing themselves to be manipulating into judging other women who may have made different choices we can and will not be able to move forward, only backward.

If Ann were truly in love with Mitt and loved in return then would not she and Mitt have more empathy and compassion for others you can’t care about others until you meet the need for love in yourself.
Reason’s change desire remains the same. Mitt and Ann may justify GOP ideas with and ever shifting bunch of reasons but their desire remains the same More Cash For Themselves.
By their fruits you shall know them and their’s is not the tree of love.

Tbogg: “As per Digby–

“Look, everyone! Ann Romney is using high-dollar lip-gloss!”

(Obama smiles; signs off on more drone attacks on weddings…

Humana, United Healthcare, Blue-Cross/Blue-Shield, smile, too, contemplating their exemptions from anti-trust laws and 30 million mandated new customers….

Pfizer and Lilly smile too …thinking about no competition from cheap generic drugs. :o)

British Petroleum smiles; a big “who, us???” smile, thinking about all the corexit they got away with shitting into the Gulf of Mexico….as per Dave Dayen’s excellent piece a few threads down. :o)…

Every defense contractor who’s looting the U.S. Treasury (Just like they looted it when George Bush was preznint…) smiles…thinking about being good to go in the war on terrism until at LEAST 2014:o)

The republicans are grinning like possums eating shit out of a hairbrush. Why shouldn’t they be? They’re in a win-win situation. If Romney gets in (and who knows, at this point?) They have a name-brand republican in the Oval Office. If Obama squeaks through, they get four more years of corporate status-quo, from a DEMOCRAT whom they can blame for all of the misery and fuckups that will derive from that.

Hell, even I am grinning, to have TBogg smooching up to Digby, ace herring-dragger and chairwoman of the board of:

“Obama sucks less! And I betcha Michelle shops at Walmart! And by-fucking God I am going to ride that centrist pony as long as I’ve got three people willing to post at Hullaballoo to help me ignore the reaming that Barack Obama has given progressives, and to help me help ensure that he gets the chance to do it for another term.”

I can hardly wait for more courageous hard-hitting threads about how the Romney’s are filthy rich, while Obama is going door-to-door collecting canned food to feed the orphans he’s creating in Afghanistan.

This kind of journalistic acumen and bravery is enough to bring tears of admiration to the eyes of every person owning stock in the Fortune 500. :o)

Well said, thank you. I see this whole issue as another line of attack on women.
Get the little bitches to fight amongst themselves until there’s only one Best Mom left standing. Then we’ll all model our choices after her. The choices they didn’t get around to stripping away while we were diverted!
Fuck the War on Women.

Lay off the caffeine, TB. LOLOL

As our host would no doubt say, you’re welcome to start your own blog and rant there all you like.

Thanks, Tracy, I kind of like goosing the Obama cheerleading squad here. :o)

But those two things in your head are called “eyes”, and you can direct them anywhere you want them. :o)

Ahhh…Buzz; we can’t let them drag us into “four more years” by only talking about cosmetics, clothes, and filthy-rich republicans…

Not while Obama has done wondrous rehab on those same republicans. :o)

Anyone who sticks up for Thurston Howell III is alright by me! Thanks to the magic of DVD, I still watch *just enough* Gilligan’s Island.

The Howells also had heart, again especially Lovey. When it came right down to it, they genuinely cared about their fellow castaways.

You forgot to bitch about how O’bummer:

didn’t give everybody Unicorns that fart glitter.

killed Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

hasn’t repealed the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics.

Above all, let us all not forget that President Mc Cain would have been a REAL PROGRESSIVE on all the issues Tanbark really cares about!

Too funny!

Congrats on completely missing the point.

Well, the stay-the-courser’s are coming out of the woodwork. :o)

Labron: No, I’m bitching about bloggers who ignore that Obama is using drones to kill innocent civilians in Yemen, for example, while pissing and moaning about Ann Romney’s high-dollar shopping, a good deal of which, it’s fair to point out, is probably equalled by Michelle Obama’s purchases:

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/04/18/cia-seeks-authority-to-kill-unidentified-targets-in-yemen-drone-war/

I think things like that are more important than ranting about the shopping habits of republican wives.

Your mileage may vary.

Tracy: “Congrats on completely missing the point.” :0)

This from a poster who’s evidently thrilled by TBoggs’ hard-hitting piece on Ann Romney, but totally ignores all of the things that Barack Obama has done and not done. Tracy, I’ll put it like this: if you can get off on worrying about Ann Romney’s high-dollar wardrobe, while scolding me for insisting on a little blog-reality from one of the “Obama sucks less!” cheerleaders on here, then, the words:

“missing the point” should be dropped from your vocabulary. :o)

Oops! While I’m at it, Obama is blocking congressional oversight of arms sales to other countries. Those sales amount to a huge windfall for “defense” contractors, and the State department (that would be: BARACK OBAMA’s State department…:o) ) doesn’t want congress monkeying around with them:

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/04/19/white-house-curtails-congresss-authority-on-arms-sales/

I’m sure that Tbogg was going to jump right on this, but the poor guy is slammed looking at cosmetics catalogues
to try to see what sort of horrible spending habits Ann Romney is exhibiting of late. :o)

The very least I could do is help him out. :o)

No you’re here to throw a little tantrum, because nobody wants to come join you in your little fantasy world.

The world in which people look up to you just because you are soooo damned smart.

Where you recieve the respect that you believe that you deserve.

I gave up recreational drugs a long time ago, but if still indulged, I would like to meet your connection, you’re getting some really good shit!

You must be thinking of someone else? She wrote a book entitled “Losing our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity”, which certainly doesn’t seem like a tome that an Atheist would write.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention this, and it can’t be said too often, it was people like you put Reagan into office in 1980 and “W” into office in 2000.

Also, let’s cut to the chase, who should I vote for this year?

Uhm,…..antiwar.com is a compromised site and probably part of the propaganda outlet.
You might want to stagger links to antiwar.com with other more reputable links.
just saying

“She’s an atheist. A non-believer. Which makes her the perfect impartial reporter from the trenches of a culture war dividing America and eroding the Judeo-Christian values on which this country was founded.”

http//www.simonandshuster.com/Losing-Our-Religion/S-E-Cupp/9781439173169

Hey, is that perfect world you live in private or can anyone get in?