Dear Ann Romney,
As a woman who dearly loves her man like you do, but will on many
occasions make jokes at his expense, I get why you want to come to the
defense when your husband is being mocked. I get that it is hard to
stand there and watch the vitriol fly at someone you love. But you know
what’s even harder? Watching someone so self-righteous, so
self-centered, and so selfish and out-of-touch with the world around
them telling people, “Stop it. This is hard.” Frankly Ann, shut the fuck
up.
First Lady Michelle Obama was at a NASCAR event and she got booed. BOOED! Did she say, “Stop it! This is hard!” No, she did not.
First Lady Michelle Obama is often being ragged on about her arms by
the right wing and told she is fat. Does she say, “Stop it! This is
hard!” No, she does not.
First Lady Michelle Obama is constantly called “Moochelle” by the
right wing claiming she is fat and looks like a cow. Does she say, “Stop
it! This is hard!” No, she does not.
First Lady Michelle Obama’s husband President Barack Obama is
constantly having racial epithets thrown his way. Does she say, “Stop
it! This is hard!” No, she fucking does not.
Ann, being a woman is hard. Being a woman in love is hard because it
takes everything in her to love someone so stupid unconditionally. What
is hard is being a minority woman in this country. What is hard is
having to work two or three jobs to put food on the table at home. What
is hard is trying to study and do homework while in college with
children and a husband at home who need to eat, need a clean home, need
help with their homework (if they are of school age), or need sex. What
is hard is trying to fathom the things your husband says.
Oh, and this is especially even harder: watching you on TV claim and
boast about how much you love your husband and your man, and that if we
just get to know him we’ll like him too, but not telling us WHY.
Why do you love your husband? Because he makes you laugh? That’s great.
He makes me laugh too. I think it’s laughable that he thinks he knows
best about what I should do with my uterus. I think it’s funny that he’s
obviously so blindly racist, he felt a self-tanner would appeal to
Latino voters (like myself) to make them like him better. 150 years ago
YOU PEOPLE might have thought that black people or other persons of
color were stupid, but do you think that’s changed? Do your husband or
anyone working on his campaign think that we are so far gone and stupid
that we don’t know what he did? Again, shut the fuck up.
You know what is hard, Ann? Having to constantly listen and watch the
Republican Party boast about how great you are and how Michelle is not.
What makes you and everyone else think you’re much better than the rest
of the women in America? Is it because your husband borrowed money from
his father to start his own business; because you’re able to afford to
raise your 5 sons into douchebags from 5 different homes; because you
managed to get your horse to England for the London Olympics without
opening the windows on the plane or tying it to the roof; because your
husband’s worth is a quarter of a billion dollars and it’s still not
enough to buy you any class?
What is hard, Ann, is growing up in poverty. What is hard is wanting
so bad to be out of poverty, but the party you support fights so hard to
keep those of us in said poverty in it. What is hard is watching the
likes of you and your party succeed in instilling fear in the population
and making them root for the rich guys who could give two shits about
them. What is hard is watching your party wanting to create a monarchy
and fighting for aristocracy over the people, which is exactly the
opposite of what our Fathers fought for. They fought for the common
people; fought for freedom; fought for the right to prosper; and fought
for the right to think freely.
What is hard, Ann, is seeing a man who was born at a time when there
was still racial inequality and oppression, and overcoming all of that
to become the first black president of the United States. What is hard
is seeing a man who cares about the country he was born and raised in;
its people; its land; its heart; and constantly hearing racial epithets
against him from people of the party you support. What is hard is
hearing people calling President Obama’s mother a whore and then
attacking single mothers. What is hard is hearing people calling
President Obama and his beautiful wife and daughters monkeys and
niggers, and then claiming they are not racist by embracing Dr.
Condoleezza Rice, Allen West, and Herman Cain.
What is hard, Ann, is what Michelle Obama has to live with day by
day. She constantly has to hear these comments made about her, her
daughters, and her husband. She’s constantly being ostracized by the
right because she wants our children to eat better. Michelle is always
instilling into her daughters that hard work, dedication, and their
studies are what are going to make them successful. Michelle is always
hearing the vitriol and hate the right wing is constantly spewing to her
husband. Michelle is 100 million times the strong woman than you will
ever be.
Things are hard, Ann. But you know what is so easy? Dishing out
exactly what is given to us. What is hard is taking it. So, here’s my
advice: shut the fuck up. If it’s so hard having to stand by and hear
the things people are criticizing your husband for, perhaps you should
tell your husband to stop being a stupid, pompous, racist, bigoted,
ambitious idiotic douchebag, and things just might, MIGHT get easier for
you, and for the sake of the population.
Sincerely,
A Pissed Off Latina Voter
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