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Women who have families and husbands that earn less and take care of the kids. For starters.
Hmmm. As of 2002, the Alaska governor's salary was about 82K; Todd Palin was making somewhere between 100K and 120K at his "seasonal" BP job, before it occurred to someone that there might be a conflict of interest, what with the pipeline negotiations and all. Plus the money from his other seasonal job, fishing. Guess they took a pay cut for the prestige.
So yeah, she was the breadwinner for the last couple of years - unless he's getting paid while on leave of absence. And he's spending so much more time with the kids, that they don't have to have a nanny any more. Oh wait, they do still have a nanny, and Todd spends his time hanging around the governor's office - except for the 300+ days they spend at home in Wasilia, charging the state a per diem for the privilege of having the governor comfy in her small town instead of actually working in the state capitol.
Concern trolls for the lose.
