It's All Morally Relative

For a liberal, if the target is the Republican candidate for VP, then breaking the law and inviting the scrutiny of the Secret Service and the FBI is worth it.

I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family

Well, it's not as if there isn't evidence that suggests he's just part of the herd.

A study by professors published in the American Taxation Association’s Journal of Legal Tax Research found conservative students took the issue of accounting scandals and tax evasion more seriously than their fellow liberal students. Those with a “liberal outlook” who “reject the idea of absolute truth” were more accepting of cheating at school, according to another study, involving 291 students and published in the Journal of Education for Business.

A study in the Journal of Business Ethics involving 392 college students found that stronger beliefs toward “conservatism” translated into “higher levels of ethical values.” And academics concluded in the Journal of Psychology that there was a link between “political liberalism” and “lying in your own self-interest,” based on a study involving 156 adults.

Liberals were more willing to “let others take the blame” for their own ethical lapses, “copy a published article” and pass it off as their own, and were more accepting of “cheating on an exam,” according to still another study in the Journal of Business Ethics.

But breaking into her email isn't really illegal, or cheating, or a sign of poor ethics.  After all, she's a "rethuglican," a "wingnut."  Definitely subhuman.  It's okay to squash slime like that.

9/18/08 0815: Redstate's Moe Lane summarizes the trouble he sees:

Let me put this succinctly: everybody who had a hand in this is [expletive deleted]ed.

Have a nice day!

Moe Lane

I'm not sure thats true.  Republicans don't know how to play electoral hardball with this.  Any action will definitely be buried until after the election.

And there's this perceptive tie in to the war on terrorism from AJ Strata:

So here we have the brave screwed world of the left. If Palin emailed a known terrorist and the government intercepted them (but kept them from the public for privacy reasons) it is a crime by the government against the citizens. But if Palin emails her family and some cyber-yahoo intercepts them and splashes them across the globe it is a beautiful thing.

Every one got that?