The Republicans aligned themselves with a woman who had ties to an anti-American political party in Alaska, and they didn't call her out for that.

By “ties” you mean her videotaped welcome as governor?

Are you seriously equating this with launching your political career in the home of a man who wanted to plant a nail bomb at an Army social dance (only to see it blow up during construction and kill the bombers), and whose wife went to prison rather than testify against associates who gunned down a police officer?

How did Obama get away with that without at least admitting it was a horrible lapse in judgment?