Women and Mitt Romney- Super Tuesday HQ

I’m in Boston at the Romney Headquarters on Super Tuesday. I’ve been asking women in the crowd why they support Romney. Overwhelmingly: his values. I interviewed an older woman who said “Mitt is the only one she can trust- and his family sets an example. He is the only one” A young woman with a baby said she agrees with his values and his wonderful family.

To be a Romney supporter in Massachusetts, at this Super Tuesday event, I’d wager you’re not hurting financially. Odds are, you may have gone to Harvard Business School with Mitt, or worked with him at Bain. Yet when Mitt gave his speech, to a room full of blonde heads (he has many attractive staffers in Tory Burch and cute jeans: they don’t look like Republicans, at least the Republicans the media likes to show us. I call them “Mittlets.” They look blue state, not red) and expensive suits, the SINGLE BIGGEST APPLAUSE LINE WAS WHEN MITT CONDEMNED “ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION” and promised to end it. I ask you: what do these people have to worry about immigrants? Do they dislike brown people that much? Ann Romney echoed the call to end illegal immigration, more applause. I don’t get it. What are these people scared of?

I am very cynical about Romney, but I admit, it was nice to hear family values and commitment to family echoed. The cynic in me of course thought this was some kind of code word for “Mormon,” but perhaps not.(I did see a gaggle of young women staffers and approached them for a comment- I said, “I’m looking for young women who support Romney. They said, well most of the young women for Romney are staffers….” Indeed).Mary Katharine Ham gets it right here

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