So... Does Santorum's Eldest Daughter Become Fair Game ???

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52. i don't recall every saying much about edwards.

but in general i don't give much of a crap about a candidate's family, good or bad.
it only comes into play if a family member is going to be, say, the president's attorney general.

and i certainly don't think there's much to be said about their kids, at least not while they're minors.

in terms of good parenting, though, i think that's fair game. i agree that it's reasonable for candidates to take their kids out of school for things like the convention/nomination, election night, inauguration major events like that from which they would in any event learn something they couldn't get from school.

they just need to make sure their education is not getting short-changed. homeschooling is neither here nor there. if they're not spending the appropriate hours in lessons and studying, then they're being short-changed. if their normal education is distrupted, they need to have a tutor travel with them. if the parents can continue to home-school enough hours while on the road, that's fine, but if not, they need a tutor to help, and they need to make sure the children's political hours don't prevent enough proper education.

oh, and no fair for politicians to trot out the kids for political plus points and then whine about the pot shots some people take. personally, i think the pot shots are not cool, but neither is the hypocrisy. if you don't want your kids subjected to the ugliness of politics, don't put them in the limelight.