another thing that can't be overlooked...
Gore's got the drug arrest when he was something like 30 years old, right?
Once a kid is an adult, they make their own decisions and are their own person.
When the child is under 18, it's a whole nother ballgame, as the parent lives wth them. In palin's case, she was spending half her time at the state capital while all the drinking, school skipping, and unprotected intercourse was going on back at wasilla.