Palin's "Ethics Violation": Pure BS

It doesn't take much intelligence to smell the rat in 'Democrat.'

But for the perpetually-offended and obtuse (read Democrats), here's the scoop:

Van Flein [Palin's attorney] says Branchflower's finding that Palin violated the ethics act is flawed because she received no monetary benefit from whatever actions she and her husband are accused of. He cited several prior ethics investigations.

"The common thread of all of these Ethics Act cases is money and the use of a government position to personally gain," Van Flein's statement says.

"Here, there is no accusation, no finding and no facts that money or financial gain to the Governor was involved in the decision to remove Monegan," the governor's attorney says. "There can be no ethics violations under these circumstances."

Unless you have to find something for the purpose of smearing Palin, of course.

Further, the "ethics violations" consisted exclusively of Palin's 'failure to restrain her husband's interactions with members of the administration.....trying to get the trooper fired.'

Huh?

Let's put that another way: Todd Palin lost all rights of redress as a citizen because his wife is Governor?

What crap.