Can John Mccain put Lipstick on Sarah Palin's Pork?

This is beyond karma at this point. Here's John McCain with one of his endlessly repeated, grandpa-at-Thanksgiving, punchline provided, anecdotes:

"We're not going to spend $3 million of your tax dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana," McCain said earlier this year, referring to a request from Montana for federal money to study the endangered grizzly bear. "I don't know if it was a paternity issue or criminal, but it was a waste of money."
Here's what Sarah Palin brought home to Alaska in pork:

According to a summary of requests for federal appropriations posted to her budget offices website earlier this year, Palin requested millions of federal dollars for everything from improving recreational halibut fishing to studying the mating habits of crabs and the DNA of harbor seals.
Sure, he vetted her. But all this is only really instructive when you listen to Palin on the stump:

In just three years our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks. Thats nearly a million dollars for every working day, Palin told a crowd in Lebanon, Ohio, Tuesday. So as we reform the abusive earmarks in our state our opponent was requesting nearly a billion dollars in earmarks as a senatorial privilege as I was vetoing half a billion as an executive responsibility.
The DNA of seals?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-pork-of-pal....
As part of her executive experience that the McCain campaign so highly promotes, Sarah Palin requested millions in earmarks from Congress. Three of them, totaling nearly $2 million, were classified as "objectionable pork" by.... John McCain.

Reports the Chicago Tribune:
*This year, Palin, who has been governor for nearly 22 months, defended earmarking as a vital part of the legislative system. "The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship," she wrote in a newspaper column.
*In 2001, McCain's list of spending that had been approved without the normal budget scrutiny included a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla. The Arizona senator targeted $1 million in a 2002 spending bill for an emergency communications center in town -- one that local law enforcement has said is redundant and creates confusion.
*McCain also criticized $450,000 set aside for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla that was requested during Palin's tenure as mayor and cleared Congress soon after she left office in 2002. The funding was provided to help direct locally grown produce to schools, prisons and other government institutions, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group.

Come on, now.

Look, this means one of two things. Either John McCain barely looked into Palin's background and didn't realize he called her a Federal funding hog in the past. Or, McCain's team did vet her, knew she worked for everything McCain stood against, and he didn't give a damn that she wasn't the reformer he would make her out to be. If that's true, then he's saying he doesn't care because this was a craven political selection, not one based on principle or ability.

Whichever it is, it sure isn't good for McCain. But, he does need to answer this important question - did he vet her, or is he simply misrepresenting her to the nation?

Oh, and this has nothing to do with sexism. It has to do with the man topping the ticket, not doing his due diligence on his first major presidential decision.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/palins-earmarks-called-ob_b_123...

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[AltronGenuous13]

I believe the question is: Can Sarah Palin put lipstick on John McCain's pork?

[RudyPorter01]

I'm now convinced the Sarah Palin performance is all an act. She's made herself look dumb in order to make McCain look smarter. Why isn't it working?

[JasonfromMinnesota]

lol

[douggriffinart]

But, you have to admit, she wears those $150K clothes pretty well huh? Please check out my video, "Irresistible Blue Force, Immovable Red Object" - a refreshingly non-partisan look at the real function of our elected officials.

[rademos]

she is burning her own bridge -- the republican bridge to nowhere!

[JohnDeBunkTest]

Seven times she claims to have opposed the bridge to nowhere.

Cost = $400 million

In seven different expensive outfits.

Cost = $150,000

She is not a cheap lady!

[a1mint]

I have an even better one:

watch?v=EN7uKZWCMvE

[Alucard255]

Right starsky... because grammar is a direct reflection of intelligence... Grow up.

[donmega3000]

This Goofy B!tc# betta not win. we will all be in much trouble. Just think, if Obama loses there will be a real riot in every ghetto. Do you realise how many ghettos there are to day. and growing because the country is in debt. Do you really think she can controll a Roit. The brod is nothing more then a silly moose hunter from Alaska. get real. You should want some body to run a country, not a swimsuit model.

[VinnyMcFly]

she is not good at all.

[FuturemanWalken]

Keith Olberman is such a pole smoker

[Kaizen63]

Biased newscaster