FOX's Doocy: Anyone who can raise 5 kids can be vice-president [View All]

During a discussion on Fox & Friends Monday about how Sarah Palin might energize the Republican base, host Steve Doocy began by citing her “lifelong” NRA membership and her husband’s membership in a union.

“Plus she’s a mother of five,” Doocy went on. “And we were out at the state fair and somebody said, ‘Look, any person who can help raise five children … certainly could be vice-president of the United States.’ They said being a mom is tougher than being vice-president.”

Doocy gained notice last Friday for suggesting last Friday that Palin “does know about international relations because she is right up there in Alaska right next door to Russia.”

This remark led Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart to call Doocy a “moron.” However, conservative journalist Michael Barone made the same argument in his blog at U.S. News, writing that “Alaska is the only state with a border with Russia. And it is the only state with territory, in the Aleutian Islands, occupied by the enemy in World War II.”

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