A truly unbelievable speech.

While I could only tolerate a small dosage of Ann Romney's speech last night, I hear it received tumultuous applause. So what? Almost every racist joke and attack on our president receives tumultuous applause from the Republicans. She's a Mormon wife. Her job, her responsibility, her duty is to praise her husband, even if it means using a very large shovel. From what little I saw she spoke is she weren't married to a multimillionaire, as if they didn't have many mansions, and as if she didn't have armies of help raising her five boys, as if she didn't have a horse in the Olympics. Naturally she dragged out her cancer and M.S. for the pity vote, once again not mentioning that they could afford the finest doctors, the most elegant of hospital accommodations and she didn't have to ask her boss for time off for treatment. This doesn't diminish the severity of her diseases (though the cancer was a ductal carcinoma, a non-invasive type of breast cancer which was cured with a lumpectomy) but it does take her out of the "I'm just like you" category. Sorry she may be America's sweetheart today, but like Laura Bush she's defending an amoral liar. So while she stands there in her multi-thousand dollar outfit and magic underwear drinking in the praise of these moronic attendees, all I can see is another Republican who, given the opportunity, will make life miserable for everyone who isn't rich.

Most hilarious lie: Ann Romney said that early in her marriage she and Mitt ate tuna and pasta and used an ironing board as a kitchen table. I wonder if she read that touching tale of poverty while she and Mitt were both attending private schools.