Moment of Supreme Dishonesty: McInane Decrying "Pork"

[Zomby Woof]

Knowing what we know about the Mayor of Porksilla (aka the Governor of Porkaska), the density of this massive crump of poo that fell out of his mouth is beyond measure.

For a convention that was pretty much supremely dishonest on a molecular level, this whopper may have trumped them all - or at least ranked alongside Porkella de Ville's diarrheal stream of lies about Obama.

[vixengrl]

1. Her lobbyist got Wasilla $27 million--

and when Palin was governor, Alaska asked for $589 million in pork barrel spending. OINK! That's a big number. (especially for the 47th most populous state). If he wants to call her a reformer, he's going to have to run up against the cold hard numbers.

She's got ethics issues going back to being *mayor* regarding using City Hall materials for her failed Lt Governor campaign. And she abused power both as mayor and governor with inappropriate firings. He wants to say she "took on big oil" but why was BP the sponsor of her Inauguration in 2007? And why is she so pro-drilling if she isn't for Big Oil? As my mom said, "What? Are they going to send *firefighters* to drill that oil? No, it'll be Oil companies!" And she took money from Big Oil lobbyists.

Putting out a "tip jar" for them isn't taking them on.

And of course, there's Stevens connections, and an Abramoff connection. Her one "whistle-blower" moment came when she got pissed at someone she worked with and hacked his computer. Not exactly "reform" you can believe in. Maybe being a "reformer" in Alaskan politics is like being the "inexperienced girl" in a brothel, I do not know, and do not mean to insult Alaskans anymore than they should be insulted by their officials' shenanigans.

But her resume was more than a little overstated, that much is true. And McCain might want to confront that ahead of everybody else confronting it.

Although he could've have done that weeks ago when she was "vetted", no?

(Too RNC'd-out to type well-edited.)

[wiggs]

2. This stuff MUST be debunked by Obama campaign. Number of lobbyists in DC

has doubled under B*SH and GOP.....regulatory agencies are filled with lobbyists supposedly overseeing the industries they came from and the industries they'll go back to after office...and McCain's campaign is also filled with lobbyists. Abramoff...DeLay....Ney...Hastert...KEATING FIVE.

Come on!