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As an attempt to keep this whole process somewhere within the range of sanity -- you get too worked up and it spoils your supper,

Remember about 3 weeks ago there was a post in the Humor section called "the Other Guy?". It humorously pointed out that although you may think a particular candidate is horrible, stupid, of uncertain parentage, kicks his/her dog, is uneducated, eats children fried for breaksfast, has bad breath, etc. that there are something like 60 million people out there that feel exactly the same about your favored candidate. Put things in perspective a little. It's only politics.

As I go to the grocery store here in my little corner of ex-urban MO, I see lots of signs up for all kinds of candidates. On the presidential level, I guess I see a few more McC/Palin than Obama/Biden. Maybe they're more ambitious sign stickers; maybe they have teens that they can tap for slave labor; maybe it'd be different if I went another route to the store. In talking to people about Palin, I hear things like "don't know about her" or "she seems OK"; never once have I heard anything about "abuse of power", "troopergate" , or some other things that judging by postings here are of momentous import to the future of the universe. It looks like nobody gives a d*mn.

It's OK to be zealous. The world needs zealots too -- if for no other reason than to give ideas to the people who actually end up doing stuff. But after a while. listening to zealots becomes soooo borrrring.

This is not a paid or uppaid political announcement. My name is Chevydog, and I have no idea whether I endorse what I say.

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I'll give an answer. Who cares?

Did she get a favor in return for hiring the contractor? Maybe.
Did the town get shafted by the contractor in return? Don't think so.
Was another contractor that submitted a better offer turned down? Don't think so.

So Palin gets a "thank you." Okay, maybe not the best thing to do if you're campaigning on ethical reform, but not the end of the world. Definitely not a "massive scandal" by any stretch of the imagination.

Contractors quite often give building scraps to people who ask for them. Maybe the Palins made friends with some of the contractors, and maybe they helped on the house free of charge.

The only scandal would be if this were a condition of their contract, which this story is EXTREMELY far from proving, or even insinuating!

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