If Sarah Palin were one of those “career” women who dump their kids off to be raised by strangers, you might have a point...but she’s not, and you sound foolish trying to paint her as such.
Perhaps you didn’t read her book or don’t know the facts, but she spends more time with her children than most “stay at home mothers” I know do. They have the luxury of a very helpful extended family to help out, and Todd takes on a lot of responsibility when he needs to, but Sarah also has brought her children with her on most of what she has done.
She is probably the strongest pro-family advocate to have ever run for the Presidency in my lifetime.
Since you are so into literal interpretations of the Bible, I’m guessing you feel Ronald Reagen was one of our worst Presidents ever! (He was divorced after all...the bible addresses this explicitly - SIN!!)
You people are doing the equivalent of hiding under your pews. How is your religious zealotry different than the Taliban, other than you have a different, less violent book to follow? You don’t want a President, you want a preacher.
So tell me, is Huckahillbilly pious enough for you? Does his family structure meet your religious test?...With his dog torturing son and his furloughing of murders (out of his CHRISTIAN COMPASSION) what a pant load...
In Charles’ defense, I understand where he is coming from, it is a 1950s ideology. I can also vouch he is no troll or anything strange.
The point of my other comment is that the way Palin’s family is, is far more historically traditional. It is the exact opposite of ‘it takes a village’ from the left or the separateness that Charles talks about.
I call it, ‘it takes a family’. It is a whole family, whole life way of raising your children, where all parents are involved and the careers are intertwined with rearing children. There is no absent father, nor is there a dividing line between work and home, all of the family’s life is unified. I think this is far more traditional and Judo-Christian than the 50s mentality of the absent career father and stay at home mom.
I said nothing about Sarah Palin's life. In fact, I'm only tangentially addressing Sarah at all; it's just that the quote here about neanderthals was apparently hers.
About all I said about Sarah was that I was not her judge. I think that's kind of the opposite of painting her in any particular light.
However, while in some ways she is very pro-family, she is not the poster child for everybody's families; and to the degree that she is being correctly characterised as faulting people who believe women would be better off at home with the kids (and I have no independent knowledge of what she said, and therefore will not characterize it myself), she is not the "strongest pro-family" advocate, at least for those who disagree with her on this issue.
Also, a nit, but she isn't yet running for President.
I believe I also addressed that for me, so long as a parent is there, it's cool. Todd watching the kids is fine with me.