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Susan Smith Andrea Yates - undiagnosed mental illness is serious


You don't have some doctor unofficially follow a mentally ill woman around a BBQ! You convince them to see a doctor in a formal clinical environment so she can be diagnosed. If a woman is going through catatonic stupors and wild mood swings and odd fixations you bring them to a doctor! You don't run them for Vice President.

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Niv-1

If a woman is going through catatonic stupors and wild mood swings and odd fixations you bring them to a doctor! You don't run them for Vice President.
Well, yeah :) What does that tell you about the Republican Party :)

Don't explain with malice what you can explain with stupidity

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They were having a lot of issues reeling Palin in at that point. If they told her she needed to see a doctor she would've gone even more rogue. They were in no position to tell her what to do at that point in the campaign

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Of course they were! They could have tossed her aside at any point. She was destroying the campaign internally and externally.

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