Guilt by Association (What's Good for Me Is Good for You)

Sarah Palin has been pallin' around with drug addicts, you betcha! Quick! Let's see an RNC press release on this news story! Except I bet you won't! Turns out, Sherry L. Johnston, the mother of Levi "Redneck" Johnston, "fiance" of Bristol "Shotgun Wedding" Palin was busted in a narcotics operation by Wasilla, Alaska police for allegedly manufacturing or delivering as well as possession of narcotics. Ah Wasilla, the heart of small-town America and all it's virtues, you never cease to amaze and enthrall us!

Ms. Johnston's activities offer up a prime opportunity to play the guilt by association games that the GOP and RNC love to play all the time when it comes to Barack Obama, the Clinton's, and other high ranking Democrats. Whenever someone else does something illegal or is rumored or accused of having done something improper, (see Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, Rod Blagojevich, etc.) then it's never to early to be convicted in the GOP's kangaroo court. Let's not forget about how Gov. Sarah Palin and the self-righteous Republicans crowed about how Obama supposedly "palled around with terrorists" for his supposed relationship with Bill Ayers who served on an education reform board with Obama and prominent Republicans. Not that the same Sarah Palin's husband Todd, was a registered member of the Alaska Independence Party, a secessionist movement that hates America--oh no! Yet of course, if anyone asks about the drug-dealing future mother-in-law of Bristol Palin you betcha we'll be told that it's "a family issue" or none of the left-wing, gotcha media's business. Right.