HEATHER MACDONALD: In Normalizing Single Motherhood, Rubio Echoes the Democratic Party’s Worldview. [archive] “Marco Rubio announced: ‘If tonight, you are that single mother, who has made it the purpose of your life to leave your children better off than yourself in the 21st century, we conservatives will fight for you.’ One might think that it is the role of a father to fight for the mother of his children. But Rubio is continuing his own and the Republican party’s trend of treating single mothers as a new and presumably permanent part of the political landscape, as if being a single mother were an inevitable and natural demographic category.”

Par for the course. From 2012: Ann Romney’s “War on Men”: Sexist Speech Says Women Care More Than Men, “Single Moms Hold Country Together”: [archive]

Here’s the text of Ann Romney’s horrifying speech . . . : [The Washington Post link is broken. NPR has a transcript here. Archive here.] . . .

It’s the moms of this nation — single, married, widowed — who really hold this country together. . . .

You are the best of America. You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you.

Tonight, we salute you and sing your praises.