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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
pan, what kind of parent would go forward with the country's most important and time consuming campaign knowing his or her family had challenges like this at home?
If, by some sort of lunacy, I were asked and had these issues, I would say no. No way in hell. It boggles my mind that Sarah Palin thought it was a good idea. What did she think would happen?
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Maybe because she is strong. Maybe because the press would find out that Palin had been asked and had to turn it down because her daughter was pregnant.
I would not want my child to carry guilt over a mistake they made that prevented me from achieving success. Chances are the press would bring it out anyway.
I love my son. If my son made a mistake, got a teen pregnant and I was in politics and offered the VP nomination, I'd take it and I hope to Hell I'd have the strength and class Mrs. Palin show in handling it.
If I turned down that offer solely because of my son's issue, then my son would feel that guilt for the rest of his life. And I may someday resent him, no matter how much I would want to believe I wouldn't.
But if I stood up and said, "I love my son, I see my son being responsible and mature in this time and I may not have handled this situation as well as my son when I was his age." My son realizes that he has my unconditional love. And to me that is more important than any office, any job, anything else outside of family.
I find it pathetic that people who proclaim to be caring and supportive of family ...... what I once believed was the Democratic strength........ to be so willing to destroy a 17 year old girl just so they can win. Those who support this thinking are pathetic excuses for human beings and in no way represent the Democratic Party I once loved and believed in.