Ah no, I’m not confused at all about this...it doesn’t necessarily need to involve political corruption (I never said it did), but in many cases it can. It just isn’t a characteristic I particularly admire in leaders.
I have plenty of common sense; and my standards are different from yours.
I said you conflated Exhibit A (Palin returning a favor to McCain), with Exhibit B (what you called “a lot of whats gotten us into this mess in the first place”).
Exhibit B is is political corruption. Exhibit A is not.
That’s the distinction I was talking about.