Parents magazine surveyed 1,000 parents on issues facing families today. We’ll get to that later. What interests us now is their poll asking which candidate they would most trust to babysit.
First, let me weigh in because my candidate-sitter didn’t even make the list!
Mike Huckabee. Who? I know (getting attention from the media is a biiiig problem for his campaign -- and he's polling second in Iowa, go figure). He’s the former GOP Arkansas governor, also a Baptist minister or something, who lost 100 pounds to set a good example for the people of his state (Arkansas being one of the high-fat states in the country). And he’s funny! So funny! I caught him on a radio show a while ago and actually laughed (some of his political convictions make me want to cry).
But I bet he's comfortable with kids, firm but fair. And after filling them up with a high-fiber, low-fat snack, he sends them off to sleep with a feel-good, moral bedtime story. Maybe even a lullaby (that's him in the picture playing the guitar!). Mike, you're this nanny's manny. Call me!
As for the Parents survey participants, a quarter of them said they’d trust Hillary Clinton to babysit the most (there’s that damn gender card, again). Another quarter of them said they’d trust Clinton the least. It’s not that I wouldn’t trust her, but she’s too busy. I’d have to book her months in advance. Huckabee, though, he’d allllllways be free.
The rest of the results:
Most trusted
None: 19%
Barack Obama: 13% (Yeah, but he's a secret smoker)
Don't know: 12%
Rudy Giuliani: 9% (Seriously? He’d be interrupted with calls from Judith the whole time.)
Fred Thompson: 6% (Would fall asleep too early.)
John Edwards: 5% (Would call on Elizabeth to do the dirty work.)
Mitt Romney: 5% (Kids' hair would wind up suspiciously fluffy.)
John McCain: 4%
Refused: 2%
And least trusted (after Clinton)
Don't know: 19%
None: 13%
Rudy Giuliani: 13%
John McCain: 7% (On the other hand, no waterboarding for backyard transgressions)
Barack Obama: 6%
Fred Thompson: 6%
John Edwards: 5%
Mitt Romney: 4%
Refused: 2%
