Now Ann Romney Is Weighing In On Vince Sheheen’s “Whore-gate”

WIFE OF FORMER GOP NOMINEE BLASTS CANDIDATE, MEDIA … 

By FITSNEWS ||  Ann Romney – wife of former “Republican” presidential nominee Mitt Romney – is furious with South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen for calling his GOP rival Nikki Haley a “whore.”

She’s also livid the media and left-leaning feminist groups are giving him a pass on the scandal …

“When I first heard about it, it hit me right in my gut,” Romney told CNN of Sheheen’s recent gaffe. “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.”

Well … that last point is debatable, but there’s no debating the inefficacy of Sheheen’s gaffe (which initially went unreported by the state’s mainstream media).

His comment may be accurate, but still …

“We’re going to win this race because we want it more,” Sheheen said at a Democratic rally last week. “We want it more and all we have to do is remind the people of South Carolina about the junk that has gone on the last four years. Remind them that we have a governor who has vetoed over $100 million in public education funding.  She vetoed our public school teacher’s pay raises the same year she gave her own staff 25 percent pay increases.”

Really?  Last time we checked Haley was every bit as enslaved to South Carolina’s failed government run education system as Sheheen.  Also, last year she vetoed less than one-tenth of one percent of the state budget.

Anyway …

“That is the worst kind of politics,” Sheheen continued. “And we are gonna escort whore out the door.”

Here’s the clip courtesy of The (Florence, S.C.) Morning News, which covered the event but did not mention Sheheen’s gaffe …

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Whoa …

Sheheen quickly caught his slip, and restated “escort her out the door.”

Of course both the candidate and his audience proceeded to laugh heartily over the comment for several moments after the fact … with one member of the crowd thanking Sheheen for telling the truth about Haley, who has been accused of having multiple affairs.

“You gotta tell the truth!” he responded.

Mainstream media covered the event, but did not address Sheheen’s remark.  In fact this website was the first media outlet in the state to draw attention to it.

This week Sheheen addressed the controversy … poorly.

“Sometimes when you’re speaking five to ten times a day, your words get a little bit garbled,” Sheheen told Charleston, S.C. radio host Bryan Crabtree. “Uh. When they get garbled, and it does happen to me – I go back and say exactly what I meant, and you heard in that clip that I meant ‘her’ – h.e.r.”

“I can promise you I don’t use that word, the word that you people are claiming that I used,” Sheheen continued. “I don’t use it in private, I don’t use it in public — but if anybody heard wrong, and certainly my words were garbled, then you know I apologize. Because I don’t want to send that message to anybody.”

Typical politician …

Ann Romney – whose husband received Haley’s, um, “endorsement” in 2012 – also blasted the media and liberal feminist groups for their silence.

“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?” she told CNN.

That’s true …

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