Ann Romney: 'Maybe I Should Just Do All The Talking'

Mitt Romney's inability to interact with humans has gotten so bad that even his wife is now joking about it.

"Maybe I should just do all the talking and let him just stand here and watch me," she told a crowd on Saturday. "I've also decided: No more debates. If we're going to do another debate, he's going to sit in the audience and watch me. And that'll be it."

Her comments came at a campaign stop in Troy, Michigan. The Michigan primary will be a key crossroads for Romney, who is in danger of losing his frontrunner status after several recent national polls show him trailing Rick Santorum.

Romney is also from Michigan, and has called himself a "son of Detroit." Party insiders have predicted that if he loses Michigan, it could mean a long battle til November.

As the GOP candidate struggles to regain momentum, his efforts to connect with voters have fallen flat. On Friday, he told a Michigan audience that his family owns four American-made cars, including multiple Cadillacs. The average U.S. family owns 2 cars, reports the U.S. Department of Labor.

Comments

[O4US]

07:41 AM on 03/13/2012

Maybe she should just do the running for President while she's at it. Either way, they're gonna lose.

[Suezeek]

03:52 AM on 02/29/2012

Extrapolating from my experience with my sister who married a fundamentalist Baptist preacher;eventually these people isolate themselves from anyone who does not share their beliefs, sending their children to religious schools, socializing only with others of the same ilk, and rarely coming face to face with "others". They believe the devil is responsible for opposing ideas. It is very easy for her to be kind in isolation. In this case great wealth is a further dividing factor. But, the world has gotten nasty; all the trolls have come out. And corporate thugs rule. The media has become nasty and unforgiving and judgmental, and lies and distorts as a matter of course. Obama and his wife were stunned to find how ugly it could be; his idealism has taken a blow and he isn't the same man who went into office. This woman would be crushed if she were to be the first lady, her naivety dooming her. Even Senator Snowe, a lovely and wise woman, has thrown up her hands and quit. Obama said he wasn't completely sure he wanted to be in office for another 4 years. Why would a lovely, compassionate, intelligent man who wanted to make the world a better place say that? Observe: some people will go into attack mode and respond to me with vile, accusatory remarks in response to that comment. Their first thought is to be utterly ugly and vicious. So goes our country; our lovely country. Going, going, almost gone.

[Maureen Stemberg]

10:27 PM on 03/01/2012

Suezeek, sadly what you have so well stated is true...Sad, yet true. :(

[lexigram]

04:42 AM on 03/19/2012

Not attacking, just stating my opinion. First of all, the Romney's are Mormon. I think this lady is uncrushable. I find her comments about her husband and how his talking days are over to be pretty rude and snotty, considering who she's talking about, and also considering the usual family dynamic in a Mormon family. Senator Snowe, instead of throwing her hands up, could have made a choice to try-loudly and publicly-to work with the Democrats. Walking away is not the answer.

[lukylip98]

02:58 PM on 02/28/2012

"For the first time in my life I'm proud to be an American" --- not like wifes don't speak.

[lukylip98]

05:49 PM on 02/27/2012

Obama can't win with $5.00 gas which will bring a larger recession. His policies on fossil fuels are ALL his doing. He inherited $1.85 a gallon gas on the day he became President and he owns that issue.

[Matt Pantages]

07:39 AM on 02/28/2012

you mean Obama inherited gas that had been over $4 a gallon, from the same guy that was the first president to be in office, when it reached that level... and just as then.. it is the speculators jacking up the price, during an election year... the one key difference between then and now, is that back then...GWB and his boys were working to keep prices high, not find ways to bring them down.

[lukylip98]

02:17 PM on 02/28/2012

GWB and Chaney wanted to keep gas prices high, so Obama would get elected and the Democrats would sweep the House and the Senate????

[lukylip98]

02:55 PM on 02/28/2012

It is to the financial benefit of the media complex to keep this primary alive and well.
The media is embedded in the duration of the primary and not the ultimate victor.
Remember, Hillary and Obama were still battling in June of 2008.

[chestermarx]

11:14 AM on 02/27/2012

Where's the dog?

[EgregiousEgregious]

10:35 AM on 02/27/2012

She couldn't be worse. After all, she is a financial donor to Planned Parenthood. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=3157749#.TzCVyF0WVGI

[nypapajoe]

10:32 AM on 02/27/2012

Great! So she will address the nation in matters where motor mouth can't articulate his real feelings! Yeah! That exactly what this nation needs!

[tlgpa]

08:42 AM on 02/27/2012

Whoa! Better be careful Willard. Ann is gonna wear the pants in the family. Next she'll be taking on a 2nd and 3rd husband!

[hurried harry2]

08:08 AM on 02/27/2012

Well that's certainly a sign of strength and leadership -- having your wife tell you to sit down and watch her at the debates. LOL. I guess Ann can tell us how hard it was to raise her children with Mitt on the road all the time - leaving out the fact she had nannies, cooks, chauffeurs and maids - more than several vacation homes and never once had to ask herself - can we afford that? that must have been SOOOOO difficult for her. KMA Ann. I'd rather watch your husband lie.

[ebanks84]

08:05 AM on 02/27/2012

And that silly grin.....please wipe that smile off your face Romney. You look too ridiculous!

[prubin112]

08:02 AM on 02/27/2012

Will Mitt stand behind Ann and do the patented and annoying "head tilt" each time she finishes a sentence? The head tilt is Mitt's way of looking for approval from the crowd each time he speaks.

[lexigram]

04:46 AM on 03/19/2012

I hate that head tilt!! I hate it. Combine it with that awful odd grin/smile, and he's starting to look like somebody let grampa out and he walked too far from the house. He looks so much older than he did just a few months ago.

[ebanks84]

07:59 AM on 02/27/2012

What a mess. Now we have a presidential candidate who needs to be reigned in by his wife. Damn, what is next? Are his kids going to espouse their feelings as well?

Romney is a total robot or clone of a human being. He can't possibly be real. Real people are not that clueless. It's like he stepped into this time zone from another dimension or something and is trying to fit into our existence when his existence is of another time and place. There's nothing about this man that shows he was raised and grown in this country during the years of his age.

I know this sounds crazy but there's no other explanation for Romney's personality and cluelessness. What other reasons could there be for his unnatural colloquial meanderings? At this rate, he could very easily be a Martian for all we know.

Whatever the reasons for his existence, he cannot be our president that's for sure. We don't know who he is and what he's up to so that would be like putting a stranger into the white house and that will not do. Think clearly about Romney before you vote for him people.

[lexigram]

04:49 AM on 03/19/2012

Remember when Nancy started doing all the talking, while Ronnie just stood there and smiled? Did Ronnie ever talk about the trees? I keep saying how old he's looking, I wonder if something's not well with him.

[spc5]

07:36 AM on 02/27/2012

Honda has been working on robots....maybe he can schedule an upgrade for himself....

[kywst09]

07:31 AM on 02/27/2012

Not only is she prettier, but smarter than old Mitt

[hurried harry2]

08:12 AM on 02/27/2012

Not very smart to tell the world that you think your husband should sit out of the debates while you take his place..... ummm, he is running for president of the USA -- will this be their strategy at the white house? Hold on Mr. Primer Minister, let me find Ann -- she does the negotiating on foreign policy. I gave it a try but really screwed things up with China and now Ann handles all these diplomatic conversations for me.

[94613]

03:09 AM on 02/27/2012

Ann also admits that She wears the purse strings at WacoWest. That's why this go-around only 52k of personal loot has been dribbled away versus +42m last ride on the comedy casosuel