We all know mothers are supposed to show up for duty even if suffering from the flu. Well, I know women who haven't missed a day at their post even while undergoing chemotherapy or planning the funeral of a child. Swift has a staff, a car and driver, a helicopter, a fax, a cell phone and the state police at her disposal. A woman could run a Third-World country with that kind of support system. Women run PTAs, for goodness sake.
States are child's play.
I don't recall anybody calling for New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to step aside while he battled prostate cancer. And Ronald Reagan was showing signs of Alzheimer's disease while president, and nobody tried to push him aside. Kennedy couldn't stand up straight, so he was photographed in a rocking chair. FDR couldn't walk and the country re-elected him twice. Most of them probably couldn't clean a child's dirty diaper without 20 minutes of dry heaves.