It's not personal, Mrs. Romney. When consultants and strategists criticize your husband and his policies and his lame attempt to use you to deflect questions about the economy, it's really not personal criticism of you. It is Mitt Romney who said that he gets insights from you about what women care most about regarding the economy and economic issues. So, Rosen is right to question your depth and breadth of experience in representing the economic interests of American women.
Democrats will continue to criticize your husband's weaknesses so please don't take it personally, this will be a long, vigorous campaign.
Rosen was right. She was not insulting stay-at-home moms when she made a cogent rejection of your husband's policies around the recession and his campaign strategy of using you to appeal to women voters.
Women voters don't want to be shuffled off to the candidate's wife with questions about the economy. You're a lovely woman and a wonderful mother and I'm sure you're a strong ally and sounding board for your husband. But women voters are not looking for "compassion". Americans want to know your husband understands the challenges we're all facing. Men and women are insisting on effective, sustainable growth strategies, economic policies that will not harm American families while the nation navigates these terribly vulnerable economic times of high unemployment, inequities, and national and global deleveraging and rebalancing.
It's really not about you.