Dr. Laura And The Talk Radio Audience

Last night, as he was finishing an network interview, McCain chief strategist Steve Schmidt unloaded on a few of us media types who were watching. "There's an audience of 40 million people out there on talk radio" who are absolutely furious about the media's coverage of Sarah Palin, he said.  Laura Ingraham, Rush, Hannity. That's true.

But one conservative talk radio host is absolutely furious with Gov. Sarah Palin:

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.