Behave ethically and you'll probably be OK

So Sarah Palin simply couldn't handle all those people taking issue with her conduct as Alaska's governor.
Boo-freakin'-hoo.
She has told the Anchorage Daily News that her administration would be paralyzed by ethics complaints if she were to stay at the helm.
Caribou Barbie said she was spending "most of my day" responding to all that whining.
Did it ever occur to her that, if she wanted to avoid ethics complaints, she should have tried harder to behave ethically?
Some of this is in the no-brainer category.
Governor Palin shouldn't ever have pressured the public safety commissioner to fire a trooper as vengeance in a family dispute, nor should she have allowed her spouse to do so.
As someone who carped about misspending, she shouldn't have flown to her husband's snowmobile races at taxpayer expense or charged a per diem for working at her Wasilla family home. And she should have thought twice before having the state pay for her children's travel.
The greatest irony in all of this is that Sarah Palin came into office saying she wanted Alaskans to hold her accountable. Said one Alaska resident who filed an ethics complaint: "I took her for her word."
Let this be a lesson for politicians everywhere: If you don't want people calling you corrupt, don't act corrupt.
(BONUS: There's ethically stupid, then there's just plain stupid.)