Please stop. Just stop.

It’s a cheap shot to talk about how legislators get diverted from truly important things to focus on the silly. Almost everything’s important to someone.

But Legislators have just got to stop worrying about things like their license plates. According to an Associated Press story in Monday’s Sun Journal, some lawmakers are peeved because the newly redesigned legislative plates look too much like New Hamsphire’s.

Does anyone care? Is there a single Republican voter concerned with government spending who thinks the state plate that legislators get to put on their cars matters one iota? Is there a single Democratic voter concerned about expanding access to health insurance who cares that the new plate uses green and looks a little like the Granite State plate? Or vice versa?

Little things matter. They do. There’s no real harm in stuff like making Moxie, a local concoction of questionable taste, the official state drink.

But lawmakers take up such causes at their own risk. When people are worried about taxes, health care, the environment and civil rights, the trivial stuff looks even more trivial.

Let the plate debate go. It ain’t worth it.