Obama Campaign Runs From Strategist's Insult On Ann Romney The Obama campaign was scrambling Thursday to distance itself from comments made by a top Democratic strategist who accused Ann Romney, wife of presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, of having "never worked a day in her life." "Guess what, (Romney's) wife has actually never worked a day in her life," Hilary Rosen said Wednesday evening on CNN. Romney immediately responded with a debut tweet, sparking a Twitter storm. "I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys," tweeted Romney, a 64-year-old mother of five and grandmother of 16. Believe me, it was hard work. Top Obama campaign officials then took to Twitter in an attempt to distance themselves and the re-election effort from Rosen's comments. I could not disagree with Hilary Rosen any more strongly. Her comments were wrong and family should be off limits. She should apologize," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a tweet. Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod tweeted: "Also Disappointed in Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney. They were inappropriate and offensive. Rosen continued to tweet herself, adding, "I've nothing against @AnnRomney. I just don't want Mitt using her as an expert on women struggling $ to support their family. She isn't. And later: "@AnnDRomney Please know, I admire you. But your husband shouldn't say you are his expert on women and the economy," Rosen tweeted. Romney will give her first interview after the incident this morning on the Fox News Channel. Democrats have attempted to portray Republicans during the election season as being unresponsive to women's issues, in an attempt to secure the key female voting bloc for President Obama. Rosen has twins with Elizabeth Birch, with whom she separated in 2006. She was in 2004 the interim director for the Human Rights Campaign, a leading gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender lobbyist organization. Birch was the executive director of the group for eight years There were roughly 5 million stay-at-home moms in 2010, roughly the same as the 5.1 million in 2009, and 5.3 million in 2008. In 2010, 23 percent of married-couple family groups with children under 15 had a stay-at-home mother, up from 21 percent in 2000. In 2007, before the recession, stay-at-home mothers were found in 24 percent of married-couple family groups with children under 15, according to the America's Families and Living Arrangements.