Ann Romney Attacks Democrat For Slip-Of-The-Tongue; Calls Nikki Haley A ‘Girl’
[su_right_ad]Vincent Sheheen, the Democrat running against South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, made verbal faux pas, saying “whore” when he meant to say “her”, and Anne Romney doesn’t want voters to forget it.
“When I first heard about it, it hit me right in my gut,” Romney said in a Monday phone interview with CNN. “My nerve endings went haywire. It’s so upsetting when you know someone can say something like that about a woman, and not have any kind of reaction. It’s so unacceptable. Nikki is a great girl and has been a great governor.”
The Democrat, Vincent Sheheen, made the comment at a campaign event late last week in Florence. In the midst of attacking Haley’s education record, Sheheen stumbled over his words and told the crowd, “We are going to escort whore out the door.”
The slip-of-the-tongue was clearly accidental, and Sheheen immediately corrected himself, saying, “We’re going to escort her out the door.” But when some in the audience picked up on the verbal faux pas and started applauding, Sheheen grinned and laughed along with people in the crowd. Video of the event went viral.
Sheheen apologized for the moment in a radio interview on Monday. “But if anybody heard, and certainly my words were garbled … I apologize because I don’t want to send that message to anybody,” he said, according to The State newspaper…
Romney said the incident is discouraging to women who want to be in the political arena. Haley, she noted, weathered attacks on her personal life and her Indian-American heritage in past campaigns.
“We need to make sure we have a safe place so that other women can feel like they can do this and these kinds of things aren’t going to happen to them,” Romney said. “You get so sick of saying there is bias out there, but if a Republican had said this, it would be blowing up in their face like nobody’s business. Where is EMILY’s List? Where is N.O.W.? Where are they?”
Or maybe there are saner heads on the left who wouldn’t make such a big deal about an obviously innocent slip-up. It seems like, rather than enjoying the audience reaction, he was nervously laughing at his own mistake, Oh, and should the Governor of South Carolina be called a “girl”?
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tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 1:22 pm
Yeah, he screwed up. Yeah, he apologized, late, but apologized. Good catch there, Anne! And speaking out against poor language choices rather than poor policy choices makes you a great “girl”, too!
M D Reese October 28th, 2014 at 1:25 pm
I’ll never forget her outreach to women during Mitt’s campaign– She came out on stage and screamed “WE LOVE YOU WOMEN!!!!” What does that even mean?
tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 1:32 pm
She and Mitt are swingers?
M D Reese October 28th, 2014 at 1:56 pm
Could be! Those mormons–you just never know what’s going on under there.
tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 1:56 pm
When the magic undies itch!
M D Reese October 28th, 2014 at 1:58 pm
…gotta scratch it…
I wonder if they wash those every day?
tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 2:20 pm
You just had to go there, didn’t you!
M D Reese October 28th, 2014 at 2:24 pm
The funniest thing is that I don’t REALLY want to know–just idle curiosity. It’s Tuesday–it’s raining–mind wanders…
Suzanne McFly October 28th, 2014 at 2:39 pm
If I was married to Mitt, I would swing in a heartbeat.
tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 2:47 pm
And we keep saying that he has no ability to lead!
Suzanne McFly October 28th, 2014 at 4:49 pm
More like drive away
Anomaly 100 October 28th, 2014 at 1:32 pm
I heard it the other day and it really seemed like nothing to me. It wasn’t intentional and had more to do with his twang.
Also, screw Ann Romney.
tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 1:33 pm
If you go that way, girlfriend!;-)
Anomaly 100 October 28th, 2014 at 1:39 pm
No! I was making a suggestion for you. She’s used to neutered men by now:-)
tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 1:56 pm
Ouchie!
M D Reese October 28th, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Sideways.
RK Johnston October 28th, 2014 at 6:23 pm
No thanks–I’m engaged, plus I do not find politically-maladjusted mercenerary shrews to be all that attractive!
–RKJ
Anomaly 100 October 28th, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Congrats on your engagement!
RK Johnston October 28th, 2014 at 7:34 pm
Thank you, my friend–Pam and I will be tying the knot at St. Petka’s in San Marcos in 2016!
–RKJ
Anomaly 100 October 28th, 2014 at 7:53 pm
That’s so exciting. Got a much older brother, or father by any chance?;-)
RK Johnston October 28th, 2014 at 9:38 pm
Sorry…Dad’s taken, and I only have a sister.
(Dad’s been with his lady (w/o “benefit of clergy”) since 1981, btw.)
I’ll be getting-and-giving Pam her ring probably on All Hallow’s Eve.
–RKJ
tracey marie October 28th, 2014 at 9:40 pm
marriage is wonderful, congratulations
RK Johnston October 28th, 2014 at 9:45 pm
Thanks.
It took a while…but it’s worth it!
–RKJ
tracey marie October 28th, 2014 at 9:48 pm
just wait, almost 30 years for me
mea_mark October 28th, 2014 at 1:40 pm
When you got nothing, mole hills look like mountains. Embrace the delusion Anne, it’s fun, right? … or is it just right-wing?
M D Reese October 28th, 2014 at 1:57 pm
It’s just like the “if you like your policy, you can keep it” statement that they tried to make into a crime the stature of the Watergate breakin and cover-up…
R.J. Carter October 28th, 2014 at 2:06 pm
Nah, that wasn’t a crime. Just a lie. We were used to those.
M D Reese October 28th, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Yeah–Reagan and Bush sort of insulated us.
Chinese Democracy October 28th, 2014 at 2:58 pm
“stop it.. this isnt easy” — Anne Romney
R.J. Carter October 28th, 2014 at 1:45 pm
“It’s is merely a slip of the tongue, it means nothing,” said Dr. Freud.
tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 1:57 pm
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
R.J. Carter October 28th, 2014 at 2:09 pm
Let’s not derail the conversation to the Clinton fiasco again… 🙂
tiredoftea October 28th, 2014 at 2:21 pm
That’s the time when a cigar wasn’t just a cigar. Dr. Freud would likely have approved.
Chinese Democracy October 28th, 2014 at 2:57 pm
he seemed obsessed with phallic objects. As am I heh
EnuffBull October 28th, 2014 at 3:11 pm
“…and other times its a big, brown d#ck.”
–George Carlin
Bunya October 28th, 2014 at 2:28 pm
That’s okay, Ann. We haven’t forgotten Mitt’s “binders full of women” or “corporations are people, my friends” comments. We’ll make sure we remind everybody of his “slip of the tongue” remarks.
Budda October 28th, 2014 at 3:15 pm
Oh, go ride a dancing horse lady.
Sy Colepath October 28th, 2014 at 6:18 pm
“My nerve endings went haywire.”
Who really gives a sh!t?
VALERIE MARTIN October 28th, 2014 at 6:51 pm
UGH!
I can’t let my brain even go there.
It’s gonna happen, again, isn’t it?
He’s runnin’!
Maybe he doesn’t even want to
but what Annie wants, Annie gets!
And Annie wants to be QUEEN &
she WILL NOT be DENIED!!
All Mitt can do is that trademark,
patriotic gaze…..
tracey marie October 28th, 2014 at 9:39 pm
she is behaving as if she is Flotus with her campaigning. her scolding and scowl is a turn off