I knew as soon as it was out if his mouth that that would be the one thing from the whole evening that the numbskull blogosphere would pick up and run with. Sigh. We all knew what Mitt was saying, but as Paul Ryan said last week, sometimes words just don't come out of your mouth the way you intended them to.

Is it really that funny? What am I missing?

I am a woman. I am a business woman. I was not offended by this comment. When you are thin skinned, looking to use something against someone you loathe, you will use anything as a weapon no matter how ineffectual it is.

Romney could have said "I love women" and they'd use it against them.

It's because it's all they've got! Only an idiot would not know what he was alluding too.

I still use binders! News alert!!! Each of my kids needed 5 binders for HS.

This is so stupid!

I'm with poster #2 above, I don't get it. What's the big deal here?

This is worst than....

An Assassinated Ambassador?

ANYTHING that Romney says with the word "Women" in it is the "War on Women" that Progressives will pounce on.

FACTS DON'T MATTER TO PROGRESSIVES!

Romney walks the talk with respect to women hires.

Obama doesn't!

The difference between Romney and Obama is that Romney asked for the "binders", looked inside and made some hires.

Obama has no "binder" and does nothing for women hires on his staff.

I'm just sayin'.

I don't get it.
I'm a professional female and I staff.
I know exactly what he is talking about - it's called a pipeline of talent. Mine happens to be folders.

Is this the left's attempt at another Big Bird balloon that won't float?

This isn't 1995. People aren't laughing.

Anyone who has done hiring knows original resumes are preferrable, and the easiest way to sort them is with binders. The computer programs sold to bureaucratic HR depts are lame.

Count me in as a woman who doesn't get it. So it's horrible somebody brought him a binder full of pages listing women qualified for jobs? DAMN that Romney! And we thought Bill Clinton was bad! :rollingmyeyesseverely:

Binders that 'women' brought him.

I actually think the imagery IS pretty funny. A binder with those nice acetate archivalk quality page protector sleeves each containing a ready to go Women. Probably tabbed by , well you take it from there.

I have this silly image in my head of arms and legs all splayed out around the edges of the notebook after it was closed a little too hard.

A silly slip of the tongue in a long debate, funny but of no merit or consequence.

In the real world anyway. In the world of the liberal elite it is a freudian slip of shocking proportions. They will actually believe this shows the "true" Romeny. Romney the misogynist troglodyte who believes women should be locked away out of sight until they need to be brought out of the little plastic sleeve as a photo-op. After which they would be unceromoniously zipped back up in the bag and hidden from view until the next photo-op.

The real eye rolling laugh line is the lefts hypersensitive overwrought interpretation, you can't make this stuff up.

I wasn't offended by this, either. I was offended by the question, which was an obviously plant for Obama. Women have made alreadt great strides in the workplace. They don't need the government's help. As Romney said, the best thing for women would be to get the economy going again.

DNCABC News is not a news source.

Binders are items widely used in business. I understand the left having a problem with this word as they know little about business and economics.

I cannot figure out what the big deal is here. I immediately thought that binders full of resumes were brought to him. Big deal.

One of my executive positions involved screening candidates for high corporate office. The search agencies brought the resumes in - drum roll - binders.

I think Twitter is absurd anyway. A world full of driveby posts. This just confirms it.

I may be showing my age; but in the Dept of Defense we always gave our Commander a binder with candidate bios.

(Including the infamous DoD background investigations where they talked to your friends and neighbors. You want to read interesting stuff - let your neighbors talk about you)

Shows you that the "tweeting age group" has no clue and obviously do not work in corporate America.

But they have their Obamaphone.

The very involved COO of a large real estate development company I once worked for had all of his personal files in large black binders that were on a shelf behind his desk. They were kept up to date daily.

People who see binders full of actual women are too silly to vote.

What Romney said was no slip of the tongue, no gaffe. He is a corporate businessman. In that world binders full of information - including resumes - have existed for a very long time. He could have said "full of women's resumes" but many would have had to run for their dictionaries to look up "resume".

We live in a really stupid world.

only a fool would find something funny or take offense at that phrase in context.

When you have NO jobs plans, are confronted with the Libyan Lies, have no energy plans, and certainly no fiscal recovery plan then you must turn to what works ---- BINDERS on TWITTER.
This just goes to show the IQ of the Obamaites.

Now, if he had called them "girls".....

Truth be told, most of Obama-phone voters don't work and would have no idea at all what Governor Romney was describing.

OK, OK, now I get it. Sounds like the media is going to use this as the 'George H.W. Bush grocery scanner' attack. What teeney little minds they possess.

Let me see, the women's groups brought the Romney admin binders full of women.

And women are supposed to be offended that women's groups brought a man a stack of resumes in binders?

Binders are awesome.

I'm ashamed of members of my gender who want to be thought of as strong and smart but keep demanding everyone pay for their choices. If you don't have personal responsibility, you are not liberated. You're just a gold digger.

Morons...A binder with the qualifications of women on paper, you know, that stuff we write on to put in a file folder...

Sheesh.......

This is what they select to pick on? Then they have nothing.

Watched an hilarious few minutes this morning of 'Imus in the morning' on Fox Business. He had FOX News Legal Analyst Lis Wiehl and Deirdre Imus on......Imus nearly had a stroke talking about 'Binders'.

OK, so it should have been "binders full of women's resumes"... Big deal. This was one of Gov. Romney's best answers of the night, for those who care about the issue. I've had the experience of raising children while holding down full-time employment, and I applaud him for signaling to the corporate world that it's time to make accommodations for working women.

A lot of work can now be accomplished without physically being in an office, and any woman who hopes to blend career and family should be heartened that he's advocating businesses get in step with the times.

A final thought: there were very few undecided voters in that crowd last night, but Gov. Romney went along with the pretense. I think he deserves an Emmy for going with the flow. The CPD in the future should drop the "undecided" crowd. There are smarter people sitting on barstools in the Racoon Saloon that's in every town in America than the group we saw last night.