“Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for speaker of the House,” Nancy Pelosi said after she was elected to that post last year. “It made me the ultimate multi-tasker and the master of focus, routine and scheduling.” Asked how motherhood provided an understanding of national security, she said, “Think lioness when you think of women in politics. You threaten our cubs, you’re dead.”
Yet many of the same people who didn’t blink at – indeed, applauded – Pelosi’s claim that motherhood qualifies her to be second in line for the presidency now harp that the same circumstance disqualifies Sarah Palin from being first.
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