I don’t think that is the issue at all.
I think the issue is when this happens do you leave your teenager at home and take a demanding job far away.
As for McCain, do you select a person who has that going on?
My best friend is very career oriented (head of public works for a city in Texas, and on the school board, plus several other positions). Her husband got non-hodgkins lymphoma a few years ago. I was the one telling her that she had tooo much on her plate at that time. She knew it, but she needed someone to remind her. She was just trying to do everything, and sometimes you can’t.
Now, my friend’s husband has been cancer free for several years, so she can do more again.
I certainly wouldn’t take such a demanding job. I work a whopping 20 hours a month, with absolutely no hours when the kids are home, for heaven’s sake!
But I think it is dangerous to claim she is not conservative enough because she chose to run for governor or veep. How many hours a week is okay for a conservative woman? Do you have to have a stay at home parent to be a conservative family?
Slippery ground there.