That’s certainly true, but comparing Sarah to Windy Davis would be apples & oranges, imho. (the Palin family remains intact & apparently quite healthy, and the Governor kept/ keeps her children close by. They would have remained close by even if McCain/ Palin had been elected)
This woman is as slick & sleazy as Bill Clinton ever thought about being. She just happens to be a “she”.
I confess that I am about as unashamedly anti-feminist as they come. Both my mom (who worked/ parents divorced) & my grandmother (who cared for me while she did) thought the whole feminism thing was hysterical. It’s not funny anymore. If that makes me sexist, oh well. (BTW the “K” is for Kari. Ms Davis is not my “sister”.)
I’m not comparing the two women to each other. I’m comparing how each side of politics is not above using double standards in judging ambitious women (compared to ambitious men).
If you are an ambitious man or woman and you work to gain a high level in politics or in business, you are not going to be spending as much time w/ your kids as less ambitious people. That’s just a fact. There are still only 24 hours in a day.
If you are ambitious, it’s good to have mate who will spend more time with the family. It appears the Palins had that worked out. The Davises did too.
I don’t want to play tit for tat with sexist accusations against women in politics based on whether they are Dem or Republican. Either way, they had to make family time sacrifices to get where they got. That’s just the way it is.
The Palin family also had “scandals” which the left and MSM made sure to pound into the heads of the voters. Should we conclude that Sarah Palin’s political ambitions caused her daughter to have sex and get pregnant at 17? That Bristol hooked up with Levi because her mother wasn’t as focused on her life as she should have been?
We have to pick our battles and this isn’t one of them. imo.
We have the Kennedy family, dysfunctional to the extreme and held up as American Royalty and JFK as this great American President (the MSM does a good job) and we have a national holiday (MLK day) for a man who was a serial adulterer and not so peaceful as the MSM (along with countless others) would like us to believe.
Maybe the best thing for Wendy Davis’ children was being primarily raised by their father?