I figured I’d start this blog off by posting a few blogs from my Elect Romney in 2008 site concerning First Lady of Massachusetts Ann Romney. How does that sound for a beginning?

December 8, 2002 Sunday
By Jill Radsken

She is known around the house as “the Mitt Stabilizer.” And as she relaxes at her Belmont home one morning with her husband, the governor-elect, and three of her sons, it’s easy to see how Ann Romney got her nickname.

She laughs and interjects a word or two, but doesn’t get in a full sentence for the first 10 minutes of an interview with the Boston Sunday Herald, the first she’s given to a Boston newspaper since her husband won the election last month.

Instead, hyper-kinetic Mitt dominates the conversation, lamenting that he’s already regained the weight he lost during the campaign, and describing himself and his married sons as unworthy spouses.

When Ann finally does takes the floor, it’s to explain what is already plain to see: Her role in the family is to be a “calming” and “focused” presence. “I’m the one that kept the family going,” she said.

While raising the boys……Read More.