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When the highest profile working mother in the country - Acting Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts - flames out, how are low profile working mothers supposed to react? After I said that Swift's ineptitude transcended gender on CNN on Wednesday, I got 20 phone calls from annoyed viewers who hate it when women don't stick together. "Too bad," said one caller, "you don't have "working fathers to beat...
...apologies to all. I should have shown more empathy, although Swift makes it hard. It's true "working father" isn't in the general parlance. The notion rarely arises except when a man discovers a sudden desire to spend more time with his family which follows a sudden demand he give...
...Swift's being a working mother might not have been such an issue if she hadn't made it one. "I'm sure there isn't a working parent in America who hasn't faced it. . . when the demands of the two tasks that you take on both increase substantially, something has to give." But nothing had to give until the well-heeled Mitt Romney, fresh from successfully cleaning up the bribery-tainted Olympics, was about to come into the race and a poll showed him beating her by more than 60 points. That, more than being a parent, which...
While the Democrats would likely prefer to have faced Swift, who suffered through several scandals during her terms as Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor, a substantive and competitive election is very much in the public interest. An interesting election will bring Massachusetts residents to the polls and get them involved in both candidates’ campaigns. It will foster more genuine debate over real issues and reinvigorate the Massachusetts political landscape...
...Weld and Senator John F. Kerry in 1996—a clean, serious seven-debate contest in which the candidates sparred over crucial issues like education and crime. Regardless of the outcome, Massachusetts voters deserve to have two reasonable and viable competitors in the governor’s race. Swift, with all her baggage, could not offer a substantive campaign; Romney at least gives the people of this state a serious choice...