I am amazed at the tone of the stories about Sarah Palin’s hacked email account. The Breitbart story leads:

Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska’s governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate. (emphasis added)

The reports continue to claim that Palin used her private email account for official business, but no one has any proof of that. Even using the hacked email, which wouldn’t stand up anywhere, they have not been able to show she conducted official business. She and those she corresponds with do not make a quorum of anything. It is possible privately to be friends with persons whom one knows professionally. Frankly, it’s not state business to discuss the things Palin purportedly discussed in her private emails. In fact, had she had the exchanges on her state account, one can reasonably assume Palin’s critics would be shouting that she was abusing public resources for non-official business.

Additionally, anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge supporter of open government. As someone who will likely be using the Open Records Act and Freedom of Information Act, I fully appreciate state emails being public records. However, Open Records and Freedom of Information don’t entitle citizens to EVERY communication government officials make. We do not record every call made on government-owned telephone lines. We do not hire transcriptionists to follow government officials around and record their every utterance. And, we do not even presume to allege that the public has access to conversations public officials might have made on their own private telephone, including cell phones, or the records thereof – even if they were talking to an “official” or conducting “official business.”

And finally, I find it striking that liberals, who find the right to unchecked abortion hiding somewhere in the emanations of penumbras of the right to privacy in the Constitution, think it’s just peachy keen that Palin’s email was hacked, and also hope that it might prove she’s unworthy of higher office. Where’s her right to privacy, you hypocrites?

Let’s call thid what it is: the latest red herring in an attempt to concoct something – anything – against Sarah Palin. Here’s a tip for all you libtards out there: she doesn’t agree with you on anything politically! Criticize her on those issues…unless you’re scared te public might actually support her positions rather than your liberal tripe. But lay off the smears.

Update: As I read Ann Coulter’s column this week, I discovered she said virtually the same thing as me (feather in my cap!):

That’s exactly what happens to most Democratic ideas — as soon as they are said out loud, normal people react with revulsion, so Democrats learn to pretend they never said them: I was NOT comparing Palin to a pig! I did not play the race card! I did not say I would meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions!