To blame Sarah Palin for the email break-in is to apply a standard of expected conduct and accountability that Liberals totally unwilling to apply to themselves. In large degree, their entire worldview and philosophy is built on just the opposite.

That is a double standard and it is wrong.

However, so long as we are condemning knee-jerk reactions, let’s take a long look at the distinctly conservative bloggers who cry “bias” even when legitimate concerns about the character of a candidate have been raised.

The reason this story deserves any attention isn’t because a geek on power trip cracked her yahoo account and read the gossip mail between her sewing circle. It deserves attention because it speaks to why Gov. Palin was using a Yahoo! email account for public business. Allegations have been made that the use of public domain email was an attempt to side-step the public disclosure rules set on her government emails.

If this is true, it raises a couple issues. One is that Gov. Palin apparently didn’t feel it was necessary to disclose the content of her emails to critics which begs the question: what was she hiding? Secondly, consumer email accounts are extremley insecure and if Gov. Palin was including sensitive Government business in Yahoo! emails then either she isn’t intelligent enough to realize that they would probably be compromised or she’s too reckless to care. Either way, her behavior here was less than exemplary.