At dinner with two other couples tonight, the subject of the Palin nomination and all that has happened since came up. We were not having a political discussion and the comments made by two of the women were brief and out of the context of the rest of our dinner conversation.

Two of the three women, both mothers of several children, said that they were intending to vote for John McCain, but will not now that the news regarding her daughter has come out. One commented that there was no way she could respect and vote for a woman who puposely ruined the life of her own daughter, a young man who might be her son-in-law, and possibly even her first grandchild, all as the result of her own career ambitions. The other mom in our dinner group opined that she thought that, knowing that her daughter was pregnant and the media feeding frenzy it would create, Governor Palin should have responded "Thanks,Senator McCain, but my family has other important issues right now that take precedence over your invitation to join the ticket as VP." Both women agreed that at her young age, Palin still had plenty of time to further her political career after dealing with the needs of her daughter.

Frankly, that's not the kind of emotional response I could eve have had. Nor could I have anticipated how a mother might feel.

Do any of you Mothers out there in cyber-land share the feelings of the wives of my two friends? Just curious.

By the way, after seeing both Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorino speak tonight, I wondered why they might not have been invited to join the ticket. That kind of a combination would have been compelling in my opinion.