I doubt she's working anywhere near that much, but as VP she would have to be prepared for a heavy schedule including a great deal of travelling. And the baby-as-baggage-to-be-dragged-along is bad enough, but she also clearly hasn't been spending enough time providing guidance and supervision to her 17 year old daughter, and she's got a 14 year old who's getting the same skimpy parenting (and is likely to get pretty much the same results).
She looks to me like an example of the worst sort of radical feminism, in which the pesky matter of children isn't allowed to interfere with a woman's climb up the career ladder. Needless to say, if she was a left-winger who'd been picked as Obama's running mate, and had the identical family situation, conservatives would be howling at her irresponsible approach to motherhood.
She does have a supportive husband, and those kids do have a full-time father, you know. Any harsh words of criticism for his parenting or his choices?
“Needless to say, if she was a left-winger who’d been picked as Obama’s running mate, and had the identical family situation, conservatives would be howling at her irresponsible approach to motherhood.”
When people start doing the double standard thing you know something else is going on. And they need to be called on it. It’s why I prefer Savage or Limbaugh. Palin isn’t like King David, we don’t need her. There are others out there who don’t need to neglect an infant to get the job done. If we did need her that badly something tells me she would be a little more well-spoken and a little less like a cheerleader, and all cheerleaders do is get the home team going, for everyone else, it falls flat.