Big Oil Mom

Surest first step towards making yourself a hypocrite is to define bad behavior as something people you don't like do.

If they do it, it's bad.  If they do that bad thing that's bad because they do it, they're bad.  If I don't do that bad thing, I must not be bad.  But I can't do that bad thing because bad is what they do and I manifestly am not them.  No matter what I do, I won't be them, so I can't be doing what they're doing, even if it looks like I am to malicious, judgmental people.

This is why no one will ever convince Sarah Palin that she supported the Bridge to Nowhere and that she's lying when she says she didn't or that she was what John McCain called her before he ever knew he'd need her to save his Presidential campaign, a queen of pork.  Pork and earmarks are things corrupt politicians from other states sneak through Congress to buy the votes and affections of their shiftless constituents.  Honest Mayor and Governor Palin went to Washington to secure the money due to the hardworking taxpayers of Alaska for projects that the hardworking taxpayers of Alaska needed and deserved.

There'll be no budging her from this.  She's not going to admit she's lying.  In her own head she isn't lying and to the Right Wingers who love her she's not lying either.  She's proud of what she's done and they're proud of her.

There's no need to go after her on this stuff though.  The fact is she represents things John McCain has boasted he despises and rejects.  So instead of saying Sarah Palin is a liar, which is fun to say, I admit, it's better to say that John McCain put a queen of pork on his ticket.  John McCain let the Radical Right tell him who his Vice-President was going to be.  John McCain, in addition to the lobbyists he has running his campaign, has a politician in the pocket of Big Oil as his running mate.

My friends, that's not maverickittynesss we can believe in.