>>>I am giving Gov. Palin the benefit of the doubt about the baby born with Down Syndrome. Some people do choose to have a baby even if they know it will not be healthy. I would not assume the decision was made for political reasons.
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>>Also the other one, "I don't really need to take care of the baby next four years while I'm the VP, it will be taken care of" is also a part of the same decision process, which also has nothing to do with politics.
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>SNIP
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>Something about that did strike me as strange. She has a high needs baby only a few months old and she's going to take a consuming job?

High needs baby vs high needs job... tough.

And a belated response to the "I would not assume the decision was made for political reasons" from the top paragraph. I assume the decision was made out of a conviction, or a firmly held belief. And that's what made her attractive as a candidate... the personal decision influenced the political decision later. Which shows what sort of role model woman the GOP see as attractive to their (and other) prospective voters.