That's exactly what the MSM will agreeably adhere to for a 'Rat.
If Sarah Palin had been busted at a beer bash when she was 17, they would have portrayed her as a habitual sustance abusing delinquent. Remember the Bush twins and margaritas in a restaurant?
We've seen in the past week what guilt by association looks like to the MSM. Not Ayers or Wright wit Obama, but an unknown, so far unrelated woman to Sarah Palin named Johnston with an Oxycontin issue.
That's how it works.
“That’s how it works.”
I know the MSM will always cover for the Dems. and amplify anything they can on Republicans. But it would still be better for Republicans to get those past brushes with the law or pot smoking in college out of the way well before they make a run for the WH.