Now the only people who still might believe McHenry County Undersheriff Andrew Zinke tanked a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency operation by tipping his close friend and campaign contributor to an investigation into marijuana shipping are a handful of fools.

There are fools among us and we suffer them gladly, but usually not enough of them to seriously affect an election. P.T Barnum said there’s a sucker born every minute, but when he said it, they didn’t all have Internet access, blogs and email addresses.

If there’s still a cloud hanging over Zinke with regard to this matter, what else can we tell you?