Mona Charen: Gaffing all the way: "Need I say it? If a Republican had made the sort of joke Sen. Hillary Clinton made at a Missouri fund-raiser, it would have been front page news for days. Introducing a quote from Mahatma Gandhi, Sen. Clinton said, 'He ran a gas station down in St. Louis.' After the laughter subsided, she added, 'No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.' "

Of course, people from India do not form an important voting bloc. There is no major political fallout from offending them. So what about moral consistency?