Statement by (right winger) Dr. Laura on Palin

[DesertRat]

"I am extremely disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party. I will still vote for Senator McCain, because I am very concerned about having a fundamental leftist, especially one who is a marvelous orator, as President.

(snip)

Forget gender and race. I’m frankly and sadly caught in the dilemma of having to balance policy versus example in touting a candidate for the office of the First Family. I was ferociously attacked (what’s new?) when I spoke out strongly against Bill Clinton’s dalliances in the Oval Office. That situation quickly turned into a debate whether “private has anything to do with public.” Nonsense. Role models are very important. Children and young adults look to those who are visible and successful as a road map of what is acceptable behavior and emulate those actions over the morals and values their parents and churches have taught and tried to reinforce. It’s a tough go these days, when the “bad that men or women do” is used for entertainment purposes without judgment, or is excused because of political or financial considerations.

I’m stunned - couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain? I realize his advisors probably didn’t want a “mature” woman, as the Democrats keep harping on his age. But really, what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?

I am haunted by the family pictures of the Palins during political photo-ops, showing the eldest daughter, now pregnant with her own child, cuddling the family’s newborn. When Mom and Dad both work full-time (no matter how many folks get involved with the children), it becomes a somewhat chaotic situation. Certainly, if a child becomes ill and is rushed to the hospital, and you’re on the hotline with both Israel and Iran as nuclear tempers are flaring, where’s your attention going to be? Where should your attention be? Well, once you put your hand on the Bible and make that oath, your attention has to be with the government of the United States of America."
http://www.drlaurablog.com/

[Mz Pip]

1. But she still supports McCain

There you go.

[DesertRat]

2. Oh of course she does but

She's the first McSame supporter that I've seen who is critical of Palin.

[scarletwoman]

3. Oh, *snap*! "Family First!" Glad Dr. Laura is the one saying it.

:P

sw

[provis99]

4. straight talk from Laura "Nude Photos on the Internet" Schlessinger

What a moral hypocrite.

[Eric J in MN]

9. I don't see a connection.

Because she believes that the mother of a newborn shouldn't seek a job as big as VP of the US, therefore it's hypocritical of Dr. Laura to pose nude?

[rzemanfl]

15. No, it is because she still supports McCain when she is not

....never mind.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Well, that's a start.

The whackos are starting to back away from Sarahcuda.

[jackstraw45]

6. Hypocrite says "what?"

Typical repuke.

[bidenista]

7. what a disgusting woman she is. nt

[emilyg]

21. Yes she is.

[Left Is Write]

8. The only thing Palin supporters will take away from that

is that Dr. Laura is still voting for the McCain/Palin ticket. Everything else will be just so much "blah blah blah" to them.

[JBoy]

10. "candidate for the Office of the First Family"??

Show me "First Family" on the ballot.

[David Zephyr]

11. We were wondering when "Dr." Laura would comment on this mother who has a job.

Everything that Laura has mouthed for the last ten years about mothers with children staying home and not working today means nothing.

Laura has that single common denominator of all rightwing zealots: hypocrisy.

[JVS]

12. Someone on DU said it here a few days ago "She is not her kid's mom"

[rzemanfl]

13. Somebody please post the links to this bitch's beaver shots.

Thank you and sorry ladies. She should shut the f**k up.

[NYC_SKP]

16. Oh, my....& Oh, my!

The first two are for everyone who will be upset with your choice of words, I'm not among them.

Oh, my!
This one is in defense of Dr. Laura or anyone else who spreads her legs for a camera, it's a perfectly legitimate and legal way to make a living or just to provide entertainment and I don't think we should tear her down over it.

So, I guess I won't share my Dr.Laura "Dr. hot bush" links with you, but they aren't hard to find.

:hi:

[rzemanfl]

23. I missed the "Centerfolds for McCain/Palin" group at the RNC.

There don't seem to be too many people there, can you tell me where they are seated?

[NYC_SKP]

24. On the laps of the biggest "doners", which rhymes with [fill in blank]...

Except in cases where Liebermann got there first!

[DesertRat]

20. No, please don't!

:puke:

[TrogL]

14. The Freepers have lost it over this. They're throwing Dr. Laura under the bus

[Greg K]

17. hahahaha!

Dr. Laura's pissed of her base now.

[JackBeck]

18. She ignored her mother so badly, she laid dead in her apartment for days

before being found.

How dare she even invoke her mother while issuing this statement.

[DesertRat]

19. Where in the statement does she invoke her own mother?

[emilyg]

22. What a human being that Dr. Laura is!

:sarcasm: