but thats what she gets for using a publicly accessible website for her mail
I don't think anyone deserves to have their email hacked regardless of what it's used for. She put faith in a flawed system. As they say, hindsight is always 20/20.

The government has their own email servers for a reason
So, whose really to blame that government can't conduct low security business on public email servers? As far as I'm concerned, people are sh*tting down Palin's throat with no regard for the real issue at hand.