Ah Sarah Palin the reformer. The woman who banned books as a mayor and respects young mothers so much that she slashed funding to help them as a governor. Yes she campaigned on the bridge to nowhere before she suddenly hated it but on earmarks, there she should be OK right?
Not only is that not true, but John McCain should have known that as he attacked Palin's earmarks three different times on his pork lists.
The LA Times is reporting this today. It's pretty amusing.
For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public scrutiny. He's even gone so far as to publish "pork lists" detailing these financial favors.
Three times in recent years, McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time -- Sarah Palin.
That wasn't enough for Palin though. According to the Times, she actually wrote a newspaper column defending earmarks, "The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship."
Remember this every time that you hear that Palin was a courageous opponent of earmarks. She defended them back when she wanted them and John McCain knew that fact. Was she even vetted?