Sarah Palin's email has been hacked. McCain campaign manager Rick Davis issued this statement:

This is a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these emails will destroy them. We will have no further comment.

The group of hackers that broke into her account is reportedly "very sophisticated and probably impossible to stop." We don't know if this was a politically motivated crime, or if it was committed by hackers without a cause.

But is it reasonable to ask if this crime was encouraged by the the sick obsession with Sarah Palin's children and her medical records--even her decision to have an amniocentesis--that infests the pro-Obama fever swamps in the blogosphere?

We don't know the motivations of the hackers. But there are many savages out there who want to destroy Sarah Palin personally--not merely defeat her candidacy, but destroy her personally. Perhaps this criminal invasion of privacy will lead some bloggers to reconsider their more unseemly attempts to pry into Sarah Palin's life.