She Made Me Run!

By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT

DES MOINES

IT’S not often that a political wife presents herself as The Decider.

There’s too much danger of straying into Lady Macbeth territory, as Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton discovered when some sniped that they were wearing the pants.

But as Iowa reaches a crescendo, three Republican wives say they’re forcing their humble, self-effacing mates to sacrifice themselves to save the nation.

That might be believable, if the mates weren’t Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump.

Ann Romney told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that she insisted to her reluctant spouse: “You know what, Mitt, you’ve got to do this again.”

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