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I am that wife who multitasks so her husband can focus on his career, and I know how much work I have to do behind the scenes so that he can work his long and longer hours without worry. Granted, he doesn't always respect that, so we're having issues about it, but that doesn't diminish the amount of work I do.
There's no way Palin can run a state, keep tabs on her kids, and run for VP. No way. It would be a bit different if all of her kids were older and healthy, but they're not. She's got a daughter who really needs her right now, a husband who doesn't like not helping run things, huge state issues, and she's going to be far from home for most of it.
She has a special needs baby who will need her there when he has surgeries and need her when he gets sick and need her when he gets scared. He's only this age once, and she isn't going to be there at all. As for her husband covering for her (doing my job, basically), he's not going to be able to, either. He'll have his own campaigning and speechifying and interviews to do. Sure, they'll hire a nanny, paid for with GOP money, I'm sure, but will the nanny be the only one there for his surgeries or hospitalizations?
I'm all for working moms--we all work, just not all of us get paid. Moms who work outside of the home have massive decisions to make all the time, and they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. It's a terrible position to put people in. It's not like Palin's a normal working mom, though--how many working moms have two full-time jobs that require them to fly all over the entire US and be gone from home for weeks at a time? How many working moms have to be picture-perfect all day the next day and have their every word dissected, even if they were up all night with the baby? How many moms are training to know all about running the country and dealing with the press and talking with foreign leaders?
Palin can't do it all, and her family already shows that. She made the wrong decision here, and we need to make sure she doesn't get near the White House.
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