Politicians have been elected despite these allegations- Bush Jr was reported to be a drunk and cocaine user; Newt served his wife divorce papers after her cancer operation. Some get elected, some get the boot. It's an odd conundrum; Weiner got himself tossed out of office (and has served up his district with a Republican as a result) for far lesser crimes-poor b(****d didn't even get laid. I can't always make sense of what the public lauds and/or forgives.

But the two things that scare me about Sarah, besides her extremist right wing politics, is how she just quit the governorship without any reason and no one really seems to take her to task for it. And most importantly, how very unlearned and ignorant she is; tho her fans seem to accept it, as if being shrewd is a subsitute for intelligence.

It's been quite a while since we elected politicians because we knew that intellectually, they were BETTER than the average joe, so that we had thoughtful statespeople like Roosevelt, JFK, heck even Eisenhower had a well thought message compared to brickbrains like Palin.

Would be nice if politics and politicians stopped being just another reality show.