NOTE: Before you all think I’ve lost my marbles, this is in response to Fireblossom’s absolutely brill challenge at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads: She wants us to B.S. her. Couldn’t resist this subject, and hope I’m not too late in posting it. I truly hope the Tea Partiers understand the irony, but I’m starting to lose hope that they want to learn anything new or think outside the Fox Box…Peace, Amy
Ladies First
Ann Romney. A First Lady we can embrace.
She has real values: Family, her husband, subservience, being Mom and Grandma.
Ann, so blonde, even in her 60s! Real Americans can relate to her.
© 2012 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil
PS I must admit, I didn’t realize there was not a word limit… confused with Trifecta… guess now I have to go off and look for those marbles after all, huh? Hee hee, A.
Sharp Little Pencil 
Kerry O'Connor
American politics is a bit beyond me, I’m afraid but I can certainly relate to the irony of your piece, and the silliness of people in the public eye must always be grist to the poet’s mill.
Sharp Little Pencil
It’s become all about looking good on TV – and if you’re a candidate, making sure no one knows if you are not straight, believe it or not!
vivinfrance
Not knowing the lady in question, I wouldn’t dare to comment. I had to look up BS by going to Real Toads, and your marbles are obviously in the right place!
Sharp Little Pencil
Viv, I LOVE that you had to look up “BS.” That’s wonderful!!
vivinfrance
🙂
Daydreamertoo
:)…. Blondes have more fun you know… look at Marilyn Monroe….but Ann… Oh well… we all live in our own little virtual reality where everything is ‘perfect’..don’t we. 😉
Sharp Little Pencil
My sisters were both “tragically blonde,” WAY past their expiration date for that, since our skin coloring doesn’t do well with dyed hair. Me, I’m all about God’s little “Free Highlights,” the silver, ha ha.
brian miller
oh of course we can relate to her…remember she raised those wonderful children, she is a mom (with plenty of servants to keep them out of her hair) ha
Sharp Little Pencil
And a grown son who threatened to punch out the president of the US for calling his father out on a lie. Ah, so proud the family must be! Thanks, Brian. A
Helen
It’s early morning where I live … my first laugh of today courtesy of YOU. I’d not heard the term “Fox Box” … how totally appropriate. Saturday Night Live’s spoof last night on Fox TV was priceless … and yes, I GET everything you have written.
Sharp Little Pencil
You know, the “Fox Box” is both a paradigm and the TV itself, and the phrase came out of thin air. I think I’ll keep it! Thanks for commenting, Helen. Peace, Amy
coalblack
Oh goodness, that woman is some sort of cross between a Stepford Wife and Master Race Barbie. She’s scaryyyyyyyyy. And she lies just as well as her husband! Got to love how she got on and said she knows him better than anyone and that his 47% remark was taken out of context. Yeah, a half hour context, plus she didn’t offer any alternative about what he may have “really” meant. Talk about BSing people! And at the convention she came up with that dog whistle about how her marriage is a REAL marriage, seeming to mean that it wasn’t perfect, but really meaning “not gay.” Rrrrrrretch!
Sharp Little Pencil
Coal, you and I are so alike in our unabashed cynicism, I love that!! There were many “wretching moments” for me in her convention speech. “I LOVE YOU WOMEN!” Ha, I thought she was coming out! And then to speak of us only in family terms, rather than citing professions. Barf. Your sis in the struggle, Amy
ella
I get it…lol
Smoke n’ mirrors…isn’t that what truly counts!
Sad, so sad…
Sharp Little Pencil
You got it, Ella. So glad you stopped by! Amy
PJF Sayers
Amy, I am not sure if I should laugh or cry over this, but, yes, Ann is the perfect vision of the “true” American housewife. “Fox box” is priceless, mi amiga.
Pamela
Renee Espriu
Good thing you prefaced this, Amy. You would certainly have had me wondering. Spot on!
Sharp Little Pencil
Didn’t want to take chances someone would take me seriously, LOL. But most folks who visit know what they’re in for!
Renee Espriu
Have missed hearing from you, my friend, and so thought I had offended you (as I often think when someone goes missing with a comment now and then) and you have been so encouraging of me and my site that you have become quite important to me. You always give me pause for thought and help me not to feel so bad. Hope things are going well for you.
Sherry Blue Sky
Oi! It is Sunday and I am very worried what will happen on Tuesday.
Roger Green
I still remember her shout to “the women!” at the GOP convention, which was one of the more insincere-sounding calls I’ve ever heard, trumped only by her husband’s ever-changing rhetoric.
Sharp Little Pencil
She sounded like when Oprah does that trumpet-voice thing: “You’re all getting a NEW CARRRRRRRR!” Ha ha. Thanks, Roger! Amy
Letitia
Didn’t know the forum rules allowed such brlaiilnt posts.
Sarav
Oh yes, we want to embrace her alright. Let’s keep those subservient standards in the WHITE house…And now, his rally attendees almost got frost bite because the staffers wouldn’t let them leave–this is really taxing on me–oh wait! He’s in trouble for that too…*snicker* Thanks for a great write
Sharp Little Pencil
Yeah, I was pretty snarky with this one, and I’m OK with that! ha ha
margaretbednar
Ann, so blonde, even in her 60s!
I see nothing wrong with that 😉 I’m going blond this Friday (but I’m not in my 60’s so it is OK) ha. And, again, I’m a lone voice out here in the artsy world. I think she has a lot of class and like her a lot. (I’m serious) But, you did a nice job with the prompt. I’m worried about Tuesday as well … but I think for a different reason.
Sharp Little Pencil
Margaret, I’m SO glad you commented. There’s room for everyone at my blog. I can be abrasive and sarcastic, and I welcome people who are of a different mindset. Believe me, Ann Romney is not “the enemy”! And sure, we disagree politically, but if we all believed the same thing, we’d be living the novel “Brave New World,” and that would be horrible. Peace, Amy