Let's get our feelings out of the way, first thing. Sarah Palin just might be less qualified for the presidency than I am. Her selection by John "Maverick" McCain was nothing more than a publicity stunt meant to grab headlines and "steal" the white women vote from Barack Obama, after a bitter battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton. Period. McCain made the decision. The justification process came afterwards, which isn’t surprising since anyone with still a single brain cell left knows that Palin and Clinton are polar opposites in their beliefs, and if McCain really thought women were that easy to persuade based on face value (and that women – to him apparently – are interchangeable) than the very selection smacks of sexism.

Speaking of sexism. Sarah Palin is hot. This means that McCain's selection is actually more likely to pull in scumbag men voters and sexually frustrated college students than women. Nice fall back plan, but still not enough to change the game.

There are many reasons Sarah Palin should be derided. Her homophobia caused her to question the Wasilla public library's shelving of the gay-themed book Daddy's Roommate, and she supposedly expressed interest in "removing" certain books from the library when she became mayor. She wastefully spent over $14 million dollars on a sports complex. She hired a lobbying firm to procure the very same earmark funds that she claims to be against. She first supported the so-called Bridge to Nowhere before using its demise as a launching platform for her "reformer" nature. Her strict abortion policies leave a lot to be desire. She injects too much stalwart religion into her political beliefs. And she even supports the aerial hunting of wolves, which seems to me to be an unsportsman-like hobby to begin with.

There are many reasons Sarah Palin should not be a heartbeat away from the presidency; however, her abuse of power in the firing of Walt Monegan is not one of them.

For the most part, "Troopergate" is a joke. I'm sure if you round up all 50 governors in the United States and scrutinized their records you'll be able to find instances of them abusing power. Unfortunately, it's not as uncommon as state politicians would lead you to believe. They all do it in some form or another.

I'm not one to side with the GOP, Sarah Palin, or any other ultra-conservative leaning wordsmith, but I have to agree about Palin's ethics investigation being blown out of proportion for political reasons – just as Palin's resistance to investigators was a political power move on her part.

I'm actually quite amazed at the media blitz surrounding the pressure to fire Alaskan state trooper Mike Wooten. Wooten – who looks suspiciously like Greg Gruenberg from Heroes – is a scumbag. Let's be honest. This jerk-off tazered an eleven year kid. He was also found to have been driving in his state trooper vehicle with an open container of alcohol. Wooten has no business being a cop, or even being employed by the state in any capacity. If you ask me, Palin's mistake was in not blatantly abusing her power by firing Wooten outright herself. Instead – because of her family's relationship to Wooten – she decided to pressure Monegan into firing somebody whom he really should have fired to begin with. It was Monegan's responsibility as the Public Safety commissioner to oversee public safety. Imagine that. Instead, Monegan decide that Wooten’s previous track record as a police officer was more important than his downward spiral and unbecoming off-duty behavior. Monegan failed to due his duty as the Public Safety commissioner by not firing Wooten. He failed to do his duty as a public servant to the people of Alaska.

Cops that tazer children are not good cops, despite whatever "great work" they might have done in the past. Wooten overstepped his boundaries and abused his power. It only stands to reason that he should get a taste of his own medicine.

The field of ethics is concerned with "doing the right thing." And in that definition alone, Palin actually did the ethical thing by trying to force Wooten out of the police force. She made a moral choice to try to eliminate a cop whose behavior had taken an unethical turn. Her failure was in the indirect way that she felt she needed to go about things because of her sister's relationship with Wooten. I give her credit for trying to be political with it and working the channels, because I know that if I were in her shoes, you might have ended up seeing me in a YouTube video tazering Wooten in the nuts before throwing him out of a window.