Ann Romney's Horse Failed to Make the Cut in Competition.

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Rafalca didn't advance, either.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/ann-romneys-horse-rafalca-fails-to-advance-olympics-dressage/story?id=16945587#.UCJIu6Mn3vw

[rpannier]

1. I have mixed feelings about the horse story

I've read the horse is helpful with her MS
But, I resent the fact that she and her husband seem to show no real concern for others who are suffering from MS and can't afford basic treatment, much less an 80000 dollar tax write off

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2. Meh. I have my doubts.

The campaign is using her illness again and again to try to show that the Romneys can relate to the rest of us because they suffer with her illness.

She said the horse helps her with her ms after people had started mockingthe fact that the Romneys had a dressage horse.

The riff was that the sport was one to which so few Americans can relate, more proof that the Romneys have no clue about us.

So, Ann said it helped her with her ms.

Sure, anything you enjoy helps you. If only most people with ms and othrer debilitating diseases had the luxury of having all the help they need and aids they need and all the hobbies they might enjoy.

Besides, can't the horse help her with her illness without winning in the Olympics?

Mostly, i was just trying to be funny with my subject line, which refers to Mitt, not Rafalca.

[Leopolds Ghost]

3. Ohhh, now I get it. Two different horse races.

I'm slow...

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4. Mitt was really dismissive of Rafalca and Lovey's whole dressage thing.

Colbert showed a clip. Willard actually made a face somewhere between disgust and condescion when speaking of it.

And, from what i have read, Lovey seems to have been papa George's pick for the young Mittens.

I watch Mitt's facial expressions sometimes. They remind me of someone in movie from the twenties or thirties trying to play the pure, brave hero of a film.

The Nelson Eddy Jeanette MacDonald type genre comes to mind, but I am sure there must be more. (Obscure reference, for anyone not born in 1900, sorry. You just can't let some people, not saying who, take a film course.)

But the lead is a really bad actor.

So, when Romney looks angry, you can tell it's Romney trying to look angry. And, when he looks fawningly and lovingly at Lovey, you can tell it's Romney trying to look hopelessy devoted to Lovey. And so on.

i am not saying he is not actually having genuine feelings. i am saying only that he telegraphs that he is trying to look to the public as though he is having certain feelings, much as a very bad actor does.

Anyway, that is the sense I get whenever he looks down at Lovey so very lovingly every time he looks at her.

[mercymechap]

5. Good news for Rafalca, she can always try out for

Dancing with the Stars next fall. If Bristol was able to get in, I'm sure Rafalca, which is way trimmer and more limber should have no problem.