While I love a good political conversation, I just don't even know where to start when considering Sarah Palin. My first thought was that she was a good pick, merely because she is a woman and I generally cheer for the home team. Then more logical thinking kicked in and I became aware that she has a 4 month old. Let me repeat that....a 4 month old! I have had three 4 month olds in my tenure as a mom, and not once would I have been capable of being a Governor, never mind VP of the United States. Maybe this says more about my incompetencies as a mom than anything about Sarah Palin, but I doubt it.
I am definitely a Christian, and perhaps I agree with Sarah Palin on many policy issues; though perhaps not since I don't usually fall neatly into typical right wing conservative Christian ideology. I honestly don't know what Sarah Palin and I agree on because I stopped wanting to vote for her when I heard she had a 4 month old.
By all appearances McCain has made a wise political move. Unfortunately, his new political pawn represents a worldview that I can't buy into. In an effort to win a pro-family political debate and to shore McCain up as a supporter of a pro-family agenda, we sacrifice Sarah Palin's family and perhaps set a bad precedent for future parents. The message being sent to females by conservative Christians backing McCain/Palin is, “It’s ok to sacrifice your family on the altar of your high powered career; just don’t have an abortion.” (quote from Voddie Baucham) How pro-family is that? McCain has proven with his VP pick only that he is pro-victory, not pro-family. In fact, I contend that Sarah Palin is an anti-family pick and I don't want my daughter (or son!) emulating her.
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I totally agree. It's hard enough for me to have balance working part time with 2 really healthy kids. That's going to be hard for her with 5 kids, one of which is an infant with Down Syndrome and one that is a pregnant teen. She'll be traveling all over the place. I don't know how she thinks she can do it. Bad timing.
On the other hand, one of her children is grown (going to Iraq) and her husband is apparently on leave from his job and obviously very involved with the family. After seeing the little girl holding the baby and wetting his hair down with her spit, I have to think there has had to have been some serious baby love shown in that household. How cute was that?
I can see your point, as these were my thoughts at first. These are multiple family crisis', and it seems like she should be with her family. But would I be saying that if it were her husband who was nominated for VP?
If her kids were 12 and up (and none of them were pregnant), I would feel much more comfortable with her choices.
However, I read an article recently that made a good point. Why do I need to be comfortable with her choices? How can one person judge what another can handle? There are plenty of moms out there with high powered jobs, but I'm not one of them nor do I want to be one of them. There are plenty of moms out there doing stuff that I couldn't handle (homeschooling comes to mind). And sometimes (okay, often), I think that they are nuts. Maybe she's just good at how she manages motherhood, and maybe I'm just good at how I manage motherhood. But the "how" is different.
Just food for thought. The article didn't change my mind, as I feel that the Palin family still seems to be a family "in crisis", if you will. Or maybe they are over the crisis and just dealing (we are just finding out about the pregnant daughter and 4 month old Downs baby, but they have been dealing with this for months).
I've been thinking about this post for a while and I have to admit I agree with you. This is hard for me to admit because the feminist in me thinks that a woman should be able to choose such a wonderful opportunity. For her, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity too but from outward appearances, her family is suffering. The mom in me also shudders at leaving such a young infant. I know it is done all the time because families frequently need 2 incomes but a 40 hour per week job is different than running for the Vice Presidency.
In the end, it doesn't matter. I don't agree with McCain's policies and I don't think Palin has the knowledge necessary to run the country. She also does not demonstrate the desire to learn. She has a lot on her plate right now and cramming for the election should be lower priority than her 5 kids and grandkid on the way.
I have to disagree that she will be sacrificing her family. There are many ways to be a good mother that don't involve being with your family 24/7. Even her four month old son will survive in the care of his father, oldest sister and perhaps a Nanny or grandparent helping out. Every family doesn't have to do exactly the same things to raise happy, healthy, Christian children. I support home birth, breast feeding, cloth diapering, SAHM, only nutritious foods, homeschooling, baby wearing, family bed, etc...... BUT, that doesn't mean that every family has to do those things to be doing a good job at raising their family. There is so much more I could say. Even in the very best Christian homes, sometimes a teenager will make wrong choices, even thought they KNOW it is the wrong thing to do, and they end of pregnant or getting a girl pregnant, it is not something a parent can 100% of the time, have control over, unless you never let the teen out of your sight.
I will be voting for the McCain/Palin ticket, as a matter of Christian values and...
I would simply NOT vote at all before I would ever cast a vote for the democrates and their baby murdering clan, etc. The country will regret the day if Barack Obama gets elected, he isn't qualified.
I agree with you, Maria! However, I have decided that God can use ANYTHING (He used a donkey in the BIble, hello!), so I will probably continue to support this ticket; I have said several times, though, about the VP candidate "Too bad she isn't a man, she'd be PERFECT for the job! ;)".
Wnat to further clarify; I think she is more than qualified to do the job, but I just don't think that a woman VP is God's BEST plan, for Sarah Palin, or anyone else! I know there are many women out there who MUSt work outside the home, I get that, I was single mom of twins (birth til 3yrs old, the marriage ended from the hospital pretty much) myself for three years, but even for single moms, it's not God's BEST for them; we live in a fallen world, and things don't go the way the Creator intended.
That's more than my two cents, ha!
Maybe you dont have the whole picture. Our media today is spinning things. Just because She is not in the stay at home role doesnt make her a bad mom. Her DH is home and somehow I don't believe she would be neglecting that 4 month old in any way if some miracle happened and she and McCain make it into the white house.
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