Oh I think it's the latter option. The Republican is probably honest enough, he or she just doesn't have a clue.
If Rush is guilty of drug dealing, the PB county prosecutor's office must be the mother lode of prosecutoral incompetence since it hasn't shown a lick of credible evidence of his "crime" after 2 years of intensive investigation of everything they can lay their hands on pertaining to Rush and his admitted drug dependency.
No, I don't consider a retracted accusation by a self-confessed drug peddling maid as credible evidence. I guess you could say the maid took a page out of Kerry's book and voted for Rush's conviction before she voted against it.