financial decisions in households. whether that was on purpose or just as work. you saw the mommy patriots where they are going after specific women to make decisions. you see more and more of the conference chair woman for the house republicans. she gave the state of the union rebuttal. the most popular line is when women succeed america succeesuc. when you say the mothers, whether or not we think of them as good and worthy mothers or bad mothers who in fact are deserving of our contempt. so these mothers who need to stop having babies. what happened to the greatest love of all? teach them well and let them lead the way. it is not about the mothers it
because she talked to voters and said here are conservative principles we want our member of congress to uphold and this is why you should vote for that person. jenna: where do you think the momentum comes from? we talk about the different groups that are going to really matter come election time but why do you think this group is going to matter come 2012? what s interesting interest this group, i use the word awakening afternoon in often in the peace, they felt silent dollars by president obama because he was so popular initially in so many of the children or relatives would be talking at the dinner table and they felt like they couldn t say anything, even though they wanted to be supportive of their family, they couldn t really speak out about their conservative ideals but through technology, twitter, through blogs, the mommy patriots phrase comes from the blog as a mom where many of these moms first started getting involved and realizing, and they kept hearing this again and ag
jenna: you ve heard of soccer moms, height, hockey moms, mama grizzlies but have you heard about mama patriots? they re out there and may have an impact in 2012. politics editor at roll call wrote this fantastic story about the great awakening of mommy patriots. cristina, who are they? i set out on this journey for more magazine to sort of explore not just who they are, these are women all across the country that are showing up at tea party rallies and voting in many cases for the first time, but also about what s driving them, to sort of identify what was the passion for getting them to show up for the first time, getting them to hold signs and show up for candidates the first time. are they mini sarah