The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb notes that Alaska, unlike the federal government, does have a “Department of Law” and asks: “Is it really that crazy that Governor Palin would suggest that the White House equivalent of her Department of Law would handle the kind of frivolous ethics complaints she's been forced to deal with on her own?”

Well, let's see: Sarah Palin was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President just last year. She has presidential ambitions. So, yes, it seems pretty reasonable to expect her to know that there is no “department of law there in the White House.”

But that's a judgment call. Goldfarb apparently doesn't require that level of knowledge from would-be presidents; that's his prerogative. But Goldfarb's defense of Palin collapses under the weight of its own illogic. Here's Goldfarb again:

“Is it really that crazy that Governor Palin would suggest that the White House equivalent of her Department of Law would handle the kind of frivolous ethics complaints she's been forced to deal with on her own?”

So, according to Goldfarb (and Palin), Alaska's Department of Law has left Palin to handle ethics complaints “on her own.”

And according to Goldfarb, it makes sense for Palin to assume that the White House equivalent of Alaska's Department of law -- which has left her to handle ethics complaints on her own -- would not leave her to handle ethics complaints on her own.

Does Goldfarb know what “equivalent” means?

(By the way: Goldfarb worked for the McCain-Palin campaign.)