Mistress DSD wrote:
I dont think she will lose any votes for this incident specifically, but she has been using her Hockey Mom image as part of her campaign. Shes trying to win the undecided women voters with this image. And while it seems inane, this lack of judgement is getting a lot of attention from undecided moms. It's not going to be the straw that broke the camels back, but what it does do is make people stop and look harder, beyond this image she just cracked.
Lot of that is how the story was written, and how it's being repeated in a way to make this seem like a much bigger deal than it is. The kid was in a carseat for the "90 minute drive" to the prison. She didn't put it in one for the "short drive around the facility". I don't know how short short is, but I imagine it was something like a slow drive around a few buildings and took like 4-5 minutes.
For PR reasons, she probably should have taken the time to transfer the carseat to the other vehicle. But it's not so horrible that she didn't. They're not on a public street. They're driving slowly. Heck. I'm not even sure what kind of vehicle they were in while on the "tour". Could have been a small electric cart for all I know. I think that if you look for things to criticize someone over, you'll find them, and this is one of those cases. No matter what she did, she'd have been attacked. If she transfered the carseat, it would have been used as evidence that as a mother of an infant, her ability to perform her duties was impacted. If she had someone else hold the child while she went on the tour, it would have been used to indicate she wasn't being a good mother to the child. And don't get me started on what would have happened if she'd left the kid in her car...