The only thing I care about with this pregnancy story--would Palin be an effective VP right now?

[Bicoastal]

...while she and her husband are helping to raise two VERY young children--one the child of her own daughter and one with Down Syndrome? (Don't tell me Sarah and her husband would let two 17-year-olds take care of a kid all by themselves--that's absolute nonsense)

I'm not a parent, but I honestly can't imagine being in the White House while simultaneously caring for not one but TWO infants. When was the last time a President or Vice President entered the White House with even ONE child who hadn't learned to walk yet?

[TwilightGardener]

1. It's ridiculous on the face of it. There's no way someone can be

President (if need be, which is why she's there) with so much happening in her family that needs attention. I thought Fred Thompson was stupid for running with a new baby.

[Mz Pip]

2. She wasn't fit to be VP

before this. She still isn't fit to be VP.

She's thrown her teenage daughter into the spot light, not a good move IMHO.

Certainly, family issues can be complicated but putting your family in the center of a political firestorm seems pretty selfish. Perhaps, if Sarah Palin spent a bit more time with her family and her teenage daughter this would not be happening. Seems she didn't do such a good job of educating her daughter in those family values she's so proud to tout.

[sandnsea]

3. John F. Kennedy managed

This is flat stupid. I'd prefer to have the baby swapping story back. Of course she can be a mother and Vice President.

[Bicoastal]

4. JFK Jr. didn't have Down Syndrome--and again, the Palins now have TWO newborns.

Besides, presumably JFK wasn't the one doing the breast-feeding.

[sandnsea]

10. She had lost several children

and was pregnant in 1960. And have you ever heard of a bottle? The father can raise the child with a bottle just as well as the mother can with a boob. My father did it after my mother died. In the 60's. It's absurd to say she can't be a VP because she's a mother to a baby, absolutely absurd. And the daughter can raise her own child. My daughter is.

[JVS]

8. JFK lived in a time when it was totally acceptable for him to take no responsibility in rearing kids

Jackie and the help did all the work there.

[sandnsea]

11. So the First Dude can and the help

can take care of the baby. From the way the older kids have turned out, maybe the baby would be better off with a nanny. You never know. Regardless, it's the biggest block women have to equal opportunity - the pregnancy and baby argument. I can't believe DUers are using it against this woman, especially when there is so much more to object to.

[JVS]

5. She obviously wasn't able to strike a balance between gov and mom with 4 kids...

now with 6 on her hands, how can we expect her to balance vp and mom.

[IndianaGreen]

6. She isn't fit to be Veep under any conditions!

Get real! Palin is as qualified to be Veep as Harriet Myers is to sit in the Supreme Court.

[Barack_America]

7. Not now, not ever.

I doubt she'll learn how to exhibit better judgment at this point in her life.

[Kahuna]

9. Did you think she could be an effective VP even without the family drama? nt