Palin may lose some Hockey Moms over thisFollow

Na... Hockey moms are not like Soccer Moms. They just put their babies in mini hockey pads and strap them to the roof of the SUV.

To them, they'll feel that it was a petty complaint as well. That if anything, she was being overly protective.

I don't think it'll lose her any votes, but then again I don't think highly of the intelligence of her supporters in the first place.

It was a Britney Spears move, and she's too old to play bumbling ingenue.

Well, after the media had a heyday with Spears I'd expect them to at least give a "yeah, don't do that" object lesson from this.

You don't have children do you?

And there'in lies the issue, the hockey/soccer moms do care to that point, they will look at this and question everything they thought they new about this mother of five that is running for VP. Palin won't measure up under scrutiny so she'll lose votes from an entire demographic of mothers.

Strapping your kid in is so natural that not doing it, or even (giving the benefit of the doubt here) getting in the car before strapping your kid in (which any parent will tell you is retarded, and would never be done by anyone with half a brain) is direct evidence of how stupid you are.

Dude, I have no f'n idea what you're talking about.

Surely, by the time a child goes through a lifetime of sermon, he's not really a child anymore, is he? Technically, he's kinda dead.

Why do hate children Knox?

Hot and new makes for great TV ratings, that's about it. No one is going to vote for her unless they can relate to her, since she's just alienated the only demographic that would have related to her, she's dead in the water.

Yeah, I agree, it's good logic.

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...