How does GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan have all that time to stay on top of political issues, work on his guns, and help out at a soup kitchen? Easy, just half-ass one those.
In fact, it seemed at one point that the only qualification to get a surge in the polls was to not be named Mitt Romney.
When you consider the massive changes in federal government ethical reform and overall change of attitude toward Washington corruption, it is not difficult to forgive these relatively minor ethical transgressions.