Palin and her date, celebrity evangelical Franklin Graham, son of Rev. Billy Graham took his private jet to the village of Russian Mission this morning. 

The point in all of Palin’s verbal gymnastics and Johnny-come-lately photo ops with an evangelical on each arm is this:  none of this is Palin’s fault, the state’s fault, the government’s fault or due to the fact that the Rural Advisor position sat vacant for months after its last occupant left in frustration that she wasn’t able to schedule a meeting with the governor in the ten months

he probability that Palin would spontaneously decide that something needed to be done, without having been shamed into action by bloggers, independent media, the Native community, the Anchorage Daily News and other mainstream newspapers, Jay Ramras, Bob Poe, CNN, Mark Begich, Lisa Murkowski, talk radio, and countless others is slim at best.