There are few people in the media I despise as much as Dr. Laura Schlessinger. My wife and I will sometimes listen to the harpy in the car and ask in stunned amazement why anyone would ever be willing to put the answer to any significant life decision in her hands. Often times I feel a need to shower after discovering I agree with her on some point or another.

And IÂ’m especially struck that this mother who has worked in private practice or on the air during virtually every moment of her childÂ’s life would take this position.

I am extremely disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party.

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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?

She then goes on, at the end of the column, to darkly hint that Palin is a neglectful parent.

Schlessinger represents the worst sort of double-standard moralizing tradition in America. You know, just like the liberals who claim a woman can achieve anything – right up until the moment one actually appears on the verge of actually doing it. They make a great pair.

Especially since they despise each other – even as they take the same position for the same hypocritical reasons.

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