I don’t buy the racist thing at all.

There doesn’t seem to be any evidence supporting the charge. Further, even if she communicated that to her father, so what? she was a teenager. Recall that Michelle Obama wrote some pretty racially oriented stuff and inflammatory stuff while she was at Princeton. Rightfully, no one holds her accountable for what she wrote as a kid in college. I’m no fan of Sarah Palin at all, but the same rules ought to apply to her, especially when there is no supporting evidence.

Tarring someone with a racist label based on anything but their own behavior is no joke and not appropriate.

This is one of the few times I disagree with Charles. I’ve seen him falsely accused and excoriated- and I don’t like it one bit when his accusers assign false motives to him.